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.

In a forgotten railway outpost, a humble stationmaster meets a glamorous society woman. Their brief wait for her train turns unexpectedly intimate—until her fiancé arrives, and the night erupts into a desperate struggle as he tries to drag her back by force.
A brief look at two Barry Jenkins films that have established him as one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
The new biopic 'Elvis' highlights the beginning and end of the career of this rock and roll legend. The audience is taken on this journey knowing the tragic ending but not so much about what led him there. A large topic of discussion is the influences on Elvis that made him who he was as a singer, musician, and performer, which were blues, gospel, and country. Many of the songs that rose him to fame were songs by Black artists he heard growing up in primarily Black settings.
Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest.
An adventure that centers on freedom and captures viewers' hearts.
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.
‘Run Sweetheart Run’ has everything women fear the most, from psycho boyfriends to tampons.