Quintessential Directors: Barry Jenkins
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.

On Inauguration Day 2017, the filmmaker spent all day in a Washington, DC, used bookstore, where he bought a stack of audiotape secret telephone recordings of marital infidelity from 1969. At the Women’s March, he recognized the cosmic resonance of the phone with all that was happening.
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
Set against the backdrop of the Jim Crow era, the film offers layered representation.
Deborah (Jean Smart) and Ava (Hannah Einbinder) are a delight to watch evolve, sometimes devolve, then evolve again.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.
A summary of the films featured in this annual event taking place in Westchester.