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.

'SACRIFICE ME' is a psychological horror that follows 'Katherine' a middle aged woman that isn't happy with anything in her life. She hates the way she looks, she feels rejected by everyone she meets, this woman is totally alone. And then one day Katherine is offered the deal of a lifetime, only that deal is offered by the devil in disguise. The devil appears to Katherine in her own reflection as the beautiful young woman she wants to be. But there is a price to pay for what Katherine wants. Katherine is given four coins. The four coins represent something missing from Katherines life that she wants. She finds four people with the different things that she is looking for and gives them the coins, in exchange she gets what she desires. Little does she know that when the coins work their magic, the victim loses much more than Katherine originally thought. How far will Katherine go to look like the beautiful woman in her reflection? We are about to find out.....
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
With mismatched eyes, a willingness to experiment with hair color and style, and a rail thin frame, Bowie always drew attention. But he shunned gendered attractiveness, creating his own space somewhere in between. This hallucinatory and often nonlinear 2022 documentary is a perfect salute to David Bowie’s life and career. Rather than interviewing those that knew Bowie, the standard convention for biographical portraits, director Brett Morgen mostly lets the artist’s images, performances, videos, and words speak to capture the essence of the artist. Bowie was more than just a pop star. He painted, sculpted, acted in films, and was a thoughtful and articulate person who gave sincere answers to even the most shallow interview questions.
One Night in Miami... did not frame the racism and bigotry as something that could be solved by quality time spent between individuals. Instead, it featured four different legends of Black History together in one room disagreeing for about 2/3 of the film.
'Do Revenge' offers a 2022-relevant sociopolitical commentary that decries virtue signaling while promoting the inclusive virtues the nefarious power structures exploit.
Madres takes place in the 70’s following a Hispanic married couple who move to a migrant farming community. Diana, who is pregnant, starts to become suspicious of their new environment after she and the women around her develop strange symptoms. Could it be a curse, a sickness, or something else?
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