While we get glimpses of Fonny's own love and obligation to protect Tish, a scene audiences didn't get to see in the theatrical cut of If Beale Street Could Talk furthers just how much Fonny was ...

Spoilers ahead. Though audiences do see Fonny out in the world, falling in love with his girlfriend, Tish, through extended flashbacks, the main action of If Beale Street Could Talk really takes place ...

“I got two things in my life, man—I got my wood and stone, and I got Tish,” says the 22-year-old character Alonzo, played by Stephan James, who’s one half of the couple at the heart of the new film If ...

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At the end of If Beale Street Could Talk, Barry Jenkins’s film adaptation of the James Baldwin novel of the same name, the main characters, Tish and Fonny, sit with their son in the visiting room of ...

Following the great success of Barry Jenkins’ 2016 film Moonlight is no easy feat. The movie was exquisite: every shot added meaning, the heartbreak was visceral and Nicholas Britell’s score was ...

It has taken awhile, but finally, James Baldwin is getting an English-language movie that is worthy of this great writer. It took a leap of faith by director Barry Jenkins, who went to Europe in the ...

If Beale Street Could Talk opens with a quote from James Baldwin and a slow, sweeping violin score that will be heard many more times. Tish (KiKi Layne) and Fonny (Stephan James) walk along the edge ...

Barry Jenkins follows his Oscar-winner Moonlight with the moving, beautifully told tale of a pregnant black woman fighting for justice in 70s New York Here is a film almost woozy with its own beauty ...

When Brian Tyree Henry appears on screen 45 minutes into “If Beale Street Could Talk,” his character’s name, Daniel Carty, has been mentioned once. When Fonny runs into his old friend, he brings ...

The December 3, 2018, issue of The New Yorker is a special archival issue of the magazine: alongside many other pieces, it includes an excerpt of James Baldwin’s essay “Letter from a Region in My Mind ...