Bustle

One Of The Most Romantic ‘Beale Street’ Scenes Ended Up On The Cutting Room Floor

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 ...
Bustle

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ Doesn’t Answer This Question For A Very Important Reason

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 ...
Chicago Sun-Times

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ a tender romance in a dark, all too recent reality

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Artnet

Meet the Real-Life Sculptor Who Made Art for the Oscar-Nominated Film ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’

“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 ...
The Washington Post

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ shows what black love must face to survive

The first frames of “If Beale Street Could Talk” are so breathtakingly beautiful because of their purity and rarity. Fonny (a charismatic Stephan James) is holding hands with Tish (a magnetic newcomer ...
New York Post

‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ is a powerful but slow lesson in love

Stephan James and KiKi Layne in a scene from "If Beale Street Could Talk" AP True love endures, but cannot obscure injustice, in director Barry Jenkins’ big-hearted if slightly patience-testing follow ...
New Republic

Finding a Way

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 ...
People

See Regina King's Award-Winning 'If Beale Street Could Talk' Performance in Emotional Clip

Regina King is sharing the love in her new film If Beale Street Could Talk Regina King is sharing the love in her new film If Beale Street Could Talk. In a PEOPLE exclusive clip from the acclaimed ...
NPR

In The Luminous 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' A Perfect Love Meets An Imperfect World

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 ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Making of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’: How ‘Moonlight’ Oscar Winner Barry Jenkins Brought James Baldwin’s 1974 Novel to the Big Screen

Stephan James, the young Canadian actor playing Fonny — he starred as Jesse Owens in 2016’s Race — was struck by how much the nearly 45-year-old novel still resonates today. “You look at Fonny, and ...
The Conversation

If Beale Street Could Talk is a sumptuous, emotional follow up to Moonlight

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 ...