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60 of 144 · most liked firstBack to reading a book myself because literature isn't about plot summaries it's about the language and emotion and details and journey. And If Beale Street Could Talk is beautiful and students will actually discuss it.
positive · AI labelView post →Just finished “If Beale Street Could Talk” and it wrecked me. Baldwin doesn’t just tell a story—he makes you feel every ounce of love, pain, and injustice. Now I have to watch the movie 😭😢 #jamesbaldwin
positive · AI labelView post →It makes me sad that the movie IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK kind of came and went and didn't make as big an impact on most people as it made on me. I just remember seeing it over Christmas and thinking, this is all I want from movies, big movies about all the feelings of being human and being in love
positive · AI labelView post →Four Autumn Movies If Beale Street Could Talk The Edge of Seventeen Moonstruck Oh Brother Where Art Thou
neutral · AI labelView post →saw something disgusting on my 4K TV last night (the movie channels bundled by LG were set to motion smoothing and I saw half-a-minute of "If Beale Street Could Talk" in motion smoothing mode)
neutral · AI labelView post →Got to write about Fred Melamed in A SERIOUS MAN and Regina King in IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.
neutral · AI labelView post →10 21st century movies I like: Computer Chess Nickel Boys Janet Planet Bright Star The Act of Killing Toni Erdmann Roma If Beale Street Could Talk You Were Never Really Here A Hidden Life
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy #LetterboxdFriday 📽️! It's no surprise that my least favourite of my #LastFourWatched is a Disney live-action movie. Luckily the rest I saw were good! What have you been watching? The Equalizer 3 (2023) Last Summer (2024) If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) Mufasa: The Lion King (2024)
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth by sharing the books that helped fill gaps in my literary/historical education. Today's book is If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (1974). Details in Alt text. Also an award winning movie. Depiction of justice system still applies 50 years later. #booksky 💙📚
neutral · AI labelView post →From the archive for James Baldwin, #BornOnThisDay in 1924, my thoughts on his excellent novel IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. A lyrical story of love, family & the pursuit of justice, which still feels very relevant today. #JamesBaldwin #BOTD #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2018/11/20/i...
neutral · AI labelView post →The follow-up was this analysis of Brian Tyree Henry's scene in IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.
neutral · AI labelView post →Other side of this coin, When I first read Baldwin (If Beale Street Could Talk), I was *incensed* at how much drivel I had been forced to consume in high school when the curriculum could have been stacked with relatable and stunning works of art like that instead.
positive · AI labelView post →As I finished reading the book last night, of course I needed to revisit the film adaptation. #NowWatching 📽️ - If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) Dir. Barry Jenkins
neutral · AI labelView post →James Baldwin’s 102nd birthday was yesterday. You can buy “James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk" from Shop Mr. Well-Travelled, the BLACK-Owned Online Bookstore ✊🏾📚 #booksky #blackbooksky shop.mrwelltravelled.com/collections/...
neutral · AI labelView post →Like when you direct 2 stone-cold masterpieces in a row like MOONLIGHT and IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK, I will see your Disney movie and hope for the best
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish there was more online scholarship about James Baldwin’s novels. He finished If Beale Street Could Talk on Columbus Day 1973, and there’s a striking passage that I CANNOT find where the narrator’s mother talks about Columbus, and how he deserved to be imprisoned for discovering America
neutral · AI labelView post →If Beale Street Could Talk To Me
neutral · AI labelView post →2018 📽️ Sakura Ando - Shoplifters Regina Hall - Support the Girls Kathryn Hahn - Private Life Colman Domingo - If Beale Street Could Talk Gerard Butler - Den of Thieves Rachel Weisz - The Favourite Trevor Jackson - SuperFly Meinhard Neumann - Western Elizabeth Debicki - Widows Eva Melander - Border
neutral · AI labelView post →Sure: Malcolm X Sinner Do the Right Thing If Beale Street Could Talk Moonlight The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs Daughters of the Dust Creed Us Get Out
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy heavenly birthday to Notes of a Native Son essayist, civil rights activist, poet and Go Tell It on The Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone and If Beale Street Could Talk author, the immortal James Baldwin.
neutral · AI labelView post →Celebrating #BlackHistoryMonth with Black tv & movie characters 🎉 Today’s Black love spotlight💕: Tish & Fonny from If Beale Street Could Talk Sharon to Tish: "And if you've trusted love this far, don't panic now. Trust it all the way." The couple was portrayed by KiKi Layne and Stephan James #BHM
neutral · AI labelView post →In honor of Black History Month tonight's film is the romantic drama If Beale Street Could Talk directed by Barry Jenkins. It's based on the novel of the same name by the legendary Black gay man James Baldwin.
neutral · AI labelView post →Challengers shutout got me thinking, this is the first time my favourite movie of the year hasn't received a single Oscar nomination since 2018 with Annihilation. Of course my favourite movie from 2018 has since shifted to If Beale Street Could Talk, which was nominated, so if we exclude that...
neutral · AI labelView post →Brian Tyree Henry is so good in like 15 minutes of IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK it’s kind of insane.
positive · AI labelView post →If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin and narrated by our very own Danai Gurira is now available on Audible! Featuring original music by Terrace Martin.
neutral · AI labelView post →“If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018) is based on James Baldwin’s 1974 novel of the same name. The title is a reference to the 1916 W.C. Handy blues song "Beale Street Blues" (performed by Jelly Roll Morton here: https://youtu.be/MuMEXkmsZh4?si=mWa2jdTy9KYCzNaM). You can read it for free here (https://jm919846758.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/if-beale-street-could-talk.pdf) #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk #JamesBaldwin #BlackHistoryMonth #blues
neutral · AI labelView post →“If Beale Street Could Talk” (2018) was director Barry Jenkins’s follow up film after he won the Best Picture Oscar for “Moonlight”. This film would go on to win multiple awards (including an Oscar) for Regina King’s performance #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk #BarryJenkins #ReginaKing #BlackHistoryMonth
neutral · AI labelView post →it's so crazy I'm seeing If Beale Street Could Talk advertised on a Roku City billboard as part of Roku's "Howdy" streaming service. that movie should be in the Criterion Collection
positive · AI labelView post →If Beale Street Could Talk is set in Manhattan and Puerto Rico, and it has a lot to say about the relationships between different marginalized ethnic groups, Blacks, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians. I think Baldwin is also in dialogue with Saul Bellow, who has a very different take on Columbus
neutral · AI labelView post →My fav films from each year of the 2010s: 2010: Beginners 2011: Midnight in Paris 2012: Argo 2013: Nebraska 2014: Birdman 2015: Spotlight 2016: The Handmaiden 2017: Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri 2018: If Beale Street Could Talk 2019: Knives Out
neutral · AI labelView post →If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 - Assassin's Quest One Movie 🎥 - If Beale Street Could Talk One Album 🎧- In Rainbows (Radiohead) One TV Show 📺- Severance #Booksky #Fantasysky #fantasyfiction #radiohead #realmoftheelderlings #reading
neutral · AI labelView post →10 movies to get to know me: Dreamgirls The Wiz The Devil Wears Prada Howl’s Moving Castle Rye Lane If Beale Street Could Talk The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) Coraline Moonlight The Last Dragon
neutral · AI labelView post →Yea he kinda steals the movie. This was before he was everywhere too and I remember being so happy to see him again after ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’.
neutral · AI labelView post →Some sad movies from the last decade, courtesy of Claude: * Manchester by the Sea (2016) - A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies. * Moonlight (2016) - A young black man struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood. * Lion (2016) - A young Indian boy gets lost on a train and is subsequently adopted by an Australian couple. Years later, he sets out to find his lost family. * A Monster Calls (2016)…
neutral · AI labelView post →80) If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin Physical book
neutral · AI labelView post →'It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.' James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk
neutral · AI labelView post →I first became aware of Colman Domingo when I saw in “Passing Strange” on PBS’s “Great Performances”. Between that and other 70s period stuff like “If Beale Street Could Talk” he as the opposite of “iPhone Face” to me #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
neutral · AI labelView post →Sorry for the late addition but I also found this on Kanopy this morning when it hadn’t previously been available on there #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
neutral · AI labelView post →If Beale Street Could Talk is my second James Baldwin book and he's quickly becoming one of my favourite authors took me a bit too long to read, but I believe this is one of those books that deserves to be savoured rather than rushed through in a few hours. i highly recommend it #BookSky
positive · AI labelView post →Clinton Street Theater's Black Film History month begins! "Mo' Better Blues", "If Beale Street Could Talk", "Last Black Man in San Francisco", "I'm Gonna Get You Sucka", "Ray", "Blade", more: cstpdx.com
neutral · AI labelView post →I just finished James Baldwin's *If Beale Street Could Talk*, and I'm now finishing *The Burning Heart of the World* by Nancy Kricorian. I've also started Louise Harnby's * Editing Fiction at Sentence Level*.
neutral · AI labelView post →If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mind of My Mind by Octavia Butler Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones The Seven Daughters Of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams The Trees by Percival Everett If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis
neutral · AI labelView post →I think at least once a week about the masterful blocking and shot selection that Barry Jenkins pulls off in the scene where Fonny and Tish’s families meet in IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK and that’s only SIX characters.
positive · AI labelView post →The only disappointment was the third Anne book, but I suspect that’s at least partially due to the audiobook narration. If forced to choose, the books that stood out in this exceptional crowd were If Beale Street Could Talk and Stoner.
positive · AI labelView post →My ★★★★ review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) on @letterboxd: boxd.it/HpR3f
positive · AI labelView post →This is Barry Jenkins' fourth win within our group. He previously won 3 prizes in 2018 for Directing, Writing and Producing If Beale Street Could Talk. With these fourth wins, Mr. Jenkins is the Most awarded individual at the Gold Digger Awards.
neutral · AI labelView post →*If Beale Street Could Talk*
neutral · AI labelView post →@MatthewTitus88 I was a theater usher for this at the small theater at the art museum and I remember the last hour just hearing people intermittently quietly crying in their seats #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
positive · AI labelView post →I like how despite being based on a novel by one of the most lyrical writers of the 20th century that this isn’t heavy handed on exposition or dialogue, and instead lets the scenes play out cinematically #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
positive · AI labelView post →We’re nowhere near the end of this story and things get keep getting more and more heartbreaking💔 #MusComEnt #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m not 100% but I think this is the first time the c-word has been used on #MusComEnt 🎉 #IfBealeStreetCouldTalk
neutral · AI labelView post →I love all of his books, I have a few favourites: 😊 The Fire Next Time If Beale Street Could Talk (also a movie, which was very good) Go Tell It on the Mountain Notes of a Native Son
positive · AI labelView post →In honor of the recently concluded Black History Month, Josh and @theblackstubs.bsky.social review If Beale Street Could Talk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_efY...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love them all but If Beale Street Could Talk is a great entry and the movie directed by Barry Jenkins is among the most beautiful I have seen.
positive · AI labelView post →As for love story + period (not asking you to be too specific) what's the period? Have you seen If Beale Street Could Talk? Loved that movie
positive · AI labelView post →Can’t believe they got the director of Moonlight and If Beale Street Could Talk to make this his next movie. Must be that hard to get funding I guess
neutral · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films MY COUSIN VINNIE OUT OF SIGHT VEER-ZAARA IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES
neutral · AI labelView post →Using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films: M: Master and Commander O: Onibaba V: Village of the Damned I: If Beale Street Could Talk E: Escape From New York
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