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 ...

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 ...

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“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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barry Jenkins, director of the Oscar-winning “Moonlight,” returns with an adaptation of James Baldwin’s eponymous novel about a young man wrongly arrested for a crime he did not commit as his ...

James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk” opens with a couple confessing their love, facing each other on opposite sides of a window. But this isn’t the window from a second-story bedroom — it’s ...

Barry Jenkins once explained that his films are not escapist: “The world is on fire. So if you’re making a film and there’s not a quality to it that is a burning passion, a burning desire, then it’s ...