If Beale Street Could Talk
Annapurna Pictures has release the first trailer forMoonlightfilmmaker Barry Jenkins ' James Baldwin novel adaptation , If Beale Street Could mouth . The prevue was release online to coincidence with the previous Baldwin ’s natal day and even have archival audio frequency of the ground - break author speaking .
base on the 1974 book by Baldwin ( which gets its name from the W.C. Handy tune " Beale Street Blues"),If Beale Street Could Talkwas actually written by Jenkins over the eight class menstruation between his first appearance picture , Medicine for Melancholy , andMoonlight(which hit theatre in 2016 ) . The story revolves around Clementine " Tish " Rivers ( Kiki Layne ) , a nineteen yr old woman from Harlem who descend in love with - and becomes engaged to - Alonzo " Fonny " Hunt ( Stephan James ) , an up and come carver . However , when Fonny is falsely accuse of Brassica napus and sent to prison house , it fall to Tish to race against fourth dimension and try out his naturalness , before it ’s too late .
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In addition to the said " narration " by Baldwin , theIf Beale Street Could Talktrailer set up the step and style of Jenkins ' adaptation , while alluding to the actual story in across-the-board diagonal . The film reunites Jenkins with hisMoonlightcinematographer James Laxton and the " James Baldwin Birthday Teaser " footage alone utilize many of the same visual techniques ( face - forward closeup , aggressively - lit scenes localise at dark ) that were used for the duo ’s Best Picture Oscar - winning amount of age(s ) drama , to widely lionize effect . do it to say , this dawdler formally throws Jenkins ' name in the tintinnabulation as a contender in this year ’s awards time of year to come .
Interestingly enough , there could be something of a repeat of the 2016 movie award season this year . Back then , Moonlightand Damien Chazelle’sLa La Landwere released but a few month apart , in the lead - up to the infamous 2017 Oscar ceremony snafu where Chazelle ’s musical was declared Best Picture before it was unwrap that Jenkins ' film had really won . Jump in front to the present - sidereal day and Chazelle is now place to release his bombilate - about Neil Armstrong memoirFirst Manin theater this October , withIf Beale Street Could Talkarriving on the scene less than two months after .
Of naturally , for those uninterested in all the Oscar talk , this just means two film producer only now entering their flush will have new offering in theaters this nightfall / wintertime . LikeFirst Man , If Beale Street Could Talkwill strike the plastic film fete circuit well out front of its domestic release , in a bidding to further generate interest and ( hopefully , incontrovertible ) buzz around the motion-picture show . Both projects will get together a prestigious lineup that includes characteristic by human race - renowned storyteller like the Coens ( The Ballad of Buster Scruggs ) , Luca Guadagnino ( Suspiria ) , and Alfonso Cuarón ( Roma ) , in that regard .
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