If Beale Street Could Talk
crispy’s got it!
This could have been a tough one, as very few of the bigger names showed up in any of the frames.
Speaking of movies we didn’t finish, I realized as I was getting frames that I started this, loved what I watched, had to turn it off at some point, and never got back to it! Guess I’ll be remedying that tonight!
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The first and last frames were easy, but yeah, the others would’ve been tough. I may have taken a stab at Beale Street for the 8080, but it would’ve been a shot in the dark.
It’s a shame this movie was mostly overlooked after Moonlight. I’ll admit that I was disappointed that Barry Jenkins’ Oscar follow up was to be an adaptation, but once I saw the movie I realized that it followed in the same lineage as the previous film. I would put both movies in the same tier. Both essential viewing. I’ve watched both quite a few times, either in whole or in pieces.
This came out in a time period of great movie dads (Call Me By Your Name, Lady Bird, Eighth Grade), and Colman Domingo is right up there with those other dads.
It’s a beautiful movie.
Also, the soundtrack is amazing.
Hope you enjoy!
There’s a coifed hairdo just out of frame. Jackie.
Coifman gets the square!
I finally got around to seeing this and I thought it was great. Another one with great music. Great photography. Great performances from Natalie Portman and Peter Sarsgaard. Ruminative, but not ponderous. I was captivated throughout.
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There won’t be another @Woolen_Horde. Not another @Woolen_Horde.
Same director that’s doing/did Spencer, right?
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That was my inspiration for seeing it, yes. I knew I’d be seeing the new KStew so I wanted to check in on Pablo Larraín’s previous Oscar-buzzed work.
And let’s say the new frame is…Focus?
tomchick
2058
Dude, Colman Domingo is in Beale Street? Sheesh, if you’d told me that earlier, I probably would have seen it by now.
-Tom
Get thee to Hulu, Tom! I rewatched this last night. Turns out I had basically seen the whole thing, but I think I was dozing off for the end so I couldn’t remember how it wrapped up. Also, it has a very ambivalent (and realistic) ending, so that didn’t help my memory.
Anyway, Colman Domingo is absolutely incredible, and the rest of the cast is practically as good.
And crispy is also right on about the score, which I just looked up and discovered was done by the man who composed the flippin’ Succession theme song. So… yeah. Chops.
Anyway, if you are in the mood for a movie that really takes its time, that knows how to shoot black actors, and that sounds amazing, check it out. Would be a good pairing with one of my last 20:20 picks, Mangrove (part of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe).
Ding, ding, ding! Focus. Will Smith and Margot Robbie have a lot of chemistry in a fun movie with a bunch of twists!
40:40 BD Wong is having the time of his life
60:60 Uncle Will
80:80 Too bad they spoiled this sequence in the trailer.
100:100 Credits and frames, too!
I was gonna do Spider-Man–because it’s not on the list–but it turns out the archivist just doesn’t respect hyphens.
The search continues!
dwinn
2063
I know i’ve seen this one. Is it Sleepaway Camp?
It is indeed. A child molesting cook was just burned with boiling water by the movie’s killer, and now the camp’s sleazy owner, pictured middle, is urging everyone to keep it on the down low. “No need to upset the campers, right?”
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The 8080 is the credits, but the background image is a spoiler if you intend to watch this 38 year old slasher movie. Which I do recommend to to 80s slasher fans. Although its hook has not aged gracefully, as some excerpts on the wikipedia page point out.
@dwinn, I’ll see you in camp!
tomchick
2066
I’m 99% sure I know who that is, but for the life of me, I can’t figure out what movie had her hair like that. So maybe it’s not even her. In which case I’m going to feel really stupid guessing Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which I haven’t even seen.
-Tom
