If Beale Street Could Talk

Um, and-

Uh, If Beale Street Could Talk, best supporting role.

Oh.

Let me see, what else we got here? We got, uh, Joy, who is his girlfriend, correct? Uh, Cr- Craig's girlfriend played by Paula Jai, uh, Parker.

And I think we say this a lot about filmmakers that make a film that we are very attached to and we are very protective of.

You look at Barry Jenkins, who went from making Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, over into Mufasa 2 or whatever it was called, Lion King 2 or something.

Yeah.

uh then you have chloe xiao going to do eternals but i do think at the heart of it at the essence of what we fell in love for these with these filmmakers with in the beginning like that still is there it just may not be able to come through in all of those big scale projects but you have like chloe xiao who was able to kind of go back with hamnet i think with greta you gotta realize something.

Oh, and she just swept everything?

Yeah, and Regina King won for If Beale Street Could Talk.

Hm, tough year.

Yeah.

I was once in a room with him back in my awards days.

We worked on the awards campaign for, um, "If Beale Street Could Talk."

Oh, yeah.

And he was coming along for a Q&A at the end of it, and you could feel the temperature of the room change when he entered.

In 2018, she earned her third Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the Netflix original series, Seven Seconds.

That same year, she won a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award, and numerous additional Critics Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk.

In 2019, she starred in the limited series Watchmen and won the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama, the Critics Choice Award for Best Actress in the Drama Series, and her fourth Primetime Emmy Award.

she also directed her first full-length movie one night in miami which made its world premiere at the venice film festival in september 2020 it made history as the first film directed by a black woman to be selected for the festival and her hard work led to a golden globe nomination for best director In 2021, she starred in Netflix's The Harder They Fall and won several awards, including the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

the press that was generated from the naming to the registry resulted in a lot of stories and news items that then went viral on social media.

And so the film then circulated on social media and it happened to get retweeted on the same day that Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk premiered.

And one of the Twitter users set the film to music from If Beale Street Could Talk.

And it's this kind of beautiful, lovely agape is the name of the piece.

And then Barry Jenkins himself retweeted it.

Yes, and we have two incredible films that tackle this head-on.

The first is the 2018 adaptation of James Baldwin's seminal 1974 novel, If Beale Street Could Talk.

A masterpiece of a novel.

Truly.

The conflict is the world pressing down on them.

Their love is the lifeboat, and society is the hurricane.

But I want to ask you about the mechanics of If Beale Street Could Talk.

Okay, let's get into it.

The film stars Anthony Ippolito as a young Sylvester Stallone chronicling the struggling actor's remarkable fight to sell his screenplay for Rocky while refusing to give up his demand that he play Rocky Balboa himself.

Written by Peter Gamble, the film also stars Anna-Sophia Robb as Stallone's first wife, Sasha Zak, If Beale Street Could Talk's Stephan James as Carl Weathers, Jay Duplass as director John G. Avildsen, PJ Byrne as producer Irwin Winkler, and Matt Dillon as Stallone's father.

Amazon MGM Studios will release the film in select theaters November 6th, notice that date's been used several times already, before expending nationwide on November 20th of this year.

almost exactly 50 years after the original Rocky opened in 1976.

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... on If Beale Street Could Talk, it's one of the best movies I've seen-

I think about that, again, chills again.

I think about that score, no joke-