(JTA) — “If Beale Street Could Talk,” the new film from “Moonlight ... Levy, played by Dave Franco, is a prospective landlord for Fonny (Stephan James) and Tish (Kiki Layne).

His style could ... Beale Street NYC of the 70s ( the use of archive footage and stills cover for the obvious lack of budget to recreate the time and place) a love story is played out. Fonny ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Baldwin, James, Giovanni’s Room (1956) (New York, Laurel, 1988). Baldwin, James, “Here Be Dragons” (1985). Reprinted as “Freaks and the ...

African-American teen sweethearts Fonny and Tish are ripped apart when Fonny is wrongly arrested for the rape of a Puerto Rican woman because of the machinations of a racist cop. While seeking ...

6, 2020 Birthing a New World: Black Women as Sur... This essay analyzes how James Baldwin’s late novel If Beale Street Could Talk represents Black women’s care work in the face of social death as an ...

Barry Jenkins on If Beale Street Could Talk: 'Ultimately the film is hopeful' Barry Jenkins on the power of If Beale Street Could Talk and its Golden Globe nominations Stunning If Beale Street ...

"If Beale Street Could Talk" is, profoundly, what happens when people of color get the opportunity to be authors of their own stories, fiction or fact, from the page to the screen. Barry Jenkins ...