Tag: James Baldwin

• If Beale Street Could Talk Review — Family values

  

  It’s hard to know where to begin, every shot in this film aches with such sincerity and affection that by about the twenty minute mark I was already a puddle of tears in an oversized hoody. Sure, I’m a sucker for tragic romance, seeing struggling people pull together to face adversity. The leads of If…

  E Warren

  January 31, 2019

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Review

  Aunjanue Ellis, Barry Jenkins, Brian Tyree Henry, Cinema, Colman Domingo, Dave Franco, Film, Films, Five Stars, If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin, KiKi Layne, Michael Beach, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Regina King, Review, Stephan James, Teyonah Parris

• I Am Not Your Negro: A tonic for the blind

  

  Most of the time I’ve spent ‘writing’ this review has actually been spent researching James Baldwin. Reading extracts from his essays, novels, plays; watching him appear on the talk shows that the film extracts from; that famous 1965 Cambridge debate with William F. Buckley Jr. to whom the film rightly does not give a voice.…

  E Warren

  April 13, 2017

  Film, POC Filmmakers, Queer Filmmakers, Review

  Cinema, Documentary, Film, Films, Five Star, I Am Not Your Negro, James Baldwin, Movie, Movies, Opinion, Raoul Peck, Review, Samuel L Jackson