Just checked my local Regal 24 (Atlanta) and it says “opening Christmas”
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'If Beale Street Could Talk' Trailer (Dir. By Barry Jenkins)
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Just checked my local Regal 24 (Atlanta) and it says “opening Christmas”
Dr. Narcisse
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Anybody see it yet?
NobodyReally
Superstar
I keep checking for it, but it's not playing anywhere. I wonder if it's on delayed release in some locations?
Catching Vice tomorrow, but Beale Street is next.
NobodyReally
Superstar
OK, it finally showed up at the local theatre's playlist for January 3rd. Guess I'll be checking it out then.
Waiting for it to expand more. Only playing at 1 theater here. And I need to see the favourite first
WakandanPride
Realest Negus Alive
Just seen it.
Barry Jenkins is already one of the GOAT black film directors. This man knows cinema like no other. He crafted such a heartwarming story of black love brehs
The cast was impeccable w/ special shoutouts to Regina King and Paperboi.
The music also was amazing, so I had to buy the soundtrack off rip.
Salute to Barry and everyone involved.
Barry Jenkins is already one of the GOAT black film directors. This man knows cinema like no other. He crafted such a heartwarming story of black love brehs
The cast was impeccable w/ special shoutouts to Regina King and Paperboi.
The music also was amazing, so I had to buy the soundtrack off rip.
Salute to Barry and everyone involved.
Just saw this earlier today. 
Might legitimately be one of the best looking movies I've ever seen. Score was incredible as well. Casting was great as well. Even the parts that were clearly cast as string pulls by the production company (Dave Franco and Pedro Pascal) were parts that made sense for those two actors, instead of just being stunt casting.
I read the book literal decades ago so I was a little foggy on the story, but I really enjoyed it. It was nice to see a story about a black couple that, aside from breh being in jail, was just about the two people really loving each other. I think it speaks to the shift that we're in the middle of with black filmmaking where these movies are less about that terrible shyt that's happened to us, but more about how we actually live.
Might legitimately be one of the best looking movies I've ever seen. Score was incredible as well. Casting was great as well. Even the parts that were clearly cast as string pulls by the production company (Dave Franco and Pedro Pascal) were parts that made sense for those two actors, instead of just being stunt casting.
I read the book literal decades ago so I was a little foggy on the story, but I really enjoyed it. It was nice to see a story about a black couple that, aside from breh being in jail, was just about the two people really loving each other. I think it speaks to the shift that we're in the middle of with black filmmaking where these movies are less about that terrible shyt that's happened to us, but more about how we actually live.
Barry Jenkins and his cinematographer have the best visual tone and aesthetic feel currently, I love the way his movies look, and feel, through gorgeous, but realistic looking tones and colors, the way the smoke swirls or the trees in Central Park look. It is beautiful. The performances are all excellent, flawlessly so. Besides a trite Franco appearance that rings false, I loved everyone. I though the bond between the two fathers, and their performances, in their scenes were among the most powerful.
"You ever had any money"
"The white man has to be the devil...he has to be"
There was one more I think Tish's father said that was really dope
The love scenes are tender and sexual, I was more moved because of my own personal situations, through some of the convos about children and marriage. There is something so haunting and beautiful about jazz scores and Harlem, love, sounds odd, but it reminded me very much of scenes in "Sugar Hill", with Wesley Snipes and his girlfriend walking through the neighborhood, to world weary, but romantic jazz songs. I love the cutting and vicious Baldwin lines that cut through the heart of white supremacy and racism, throughout the movie, I cannot quote direct at the moment, but it is rare a movie has that kind of lines.
I will say I like Moonlight better, it had a momentum, a tension, and a pain that this movie didn't have in the same way, though I really liked it.
"You ever had any money"
"The white man has to be the devil...he has to be"
There was one more I think Tish's father said that was really dope
The love scenes are tender and sexual, I was more moved because of my own personal situations, through some of the convos about children and marriage. There is something so haunting and beautiful about jazz scores and Harlem, love, sounds odd, but it reminded me very much of scenes in "Sugar Hill", with Wesley Snipes and his girlfriend walking through the neighborhood, to world weary, but romantic jazz songs. I love the cutting and vicious Baldwin lines that cut through the heart of white supremacy and racism, throughout the movie, I cannot quote direct at the moment, but it is rare a movie has that kind of lines.
I will say I like Moonlight better, it had a momentum, a tension, and a pain that this movie didn't have in the same way, though I really liked it.
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the cinematography
King Harlem
Superstar
Beautiful movie. The story, the cinematography, the acting, all beautiful.
Really wonderful love story and illustrates how being black in America FEELS (especially in the 70s).
Really wonderful love story and illustrates how being black in America FEELS (especially in the 70s).
