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.

The entire population of the earth could live in a giant city occupying a fraction of the Earth’s surface, freeing the rest of the world for rewilding and return of stolen lands, according to a new movie by architect Liam Young. Young’s fictional Planet City movie proposes a hyper-dense metropolis housing 10-billion people that could be built on 0.02 per cent of the planet.
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
This coming-of-age Mexican movie is about a group of school children who fulfill their dreams.
It surely isn't for everybody and could certainly offend some folks, but Troll Hunter takes a different approach to representing religion in a film.
Birds of Prey has some of the best stunt work and choreography of 2020, and was the most fun I’d had in an action film since John Wick 3.
The history of Hollywood is as ugly as it is beautiful. Most notably absent from Hollywood history are Black-produced films. “They’ve Gotta Have Us” explores the rise of Black cinema.
This little Netflix film was very inspirational. It passes the Bechdel test, and features a different worldview with rural Indian representation.