Beyond the Ring
The release and subsequent Academy Awards victory for Moonlight in 2016 ushered in a new American master in Barry Jenkins, the previously obscure writer-director whose debut film, Medicine for Melancholy, was underseen upon its initial release. Jenkins seemed primed to write the next chapter in the story of the black American experience, but his subsequent career has been frustratingly stagnant. Although Jenkins’ adaptation of the James Baldwin novel If Beale Street Could Talk was a masterpiece... Читать дальше...