IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018) at Paramount 50th Summer Classic Film Series

Name: IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (2018) at Paramount 50th Summer Classic Film Series
Start: 2024-06-30T17:45:00-05:00
Location: Stateside at the Paramount

Schedule

Sun Jun 30 2024 at 05:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Stateside at the Paramount | Austin, TX

The 50th Annual Paramount Summer Classic Film Series presented by Capital Metro
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
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IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK
DOUBLE FEATURE
The State Theatre
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Doors: 3:15pm
I Am Not Your Negro: 3:45pm
If Beale Street Could Talk: 5:45pm
Double Feature: This ticket gets you into both films, but you are also welcome to attend just one. The second film will screen after a brief intermission.
I Am Not Your Negro
2016 | 93 min. | B&W and Color | DCP
Directed by: Raoul Peck.
With the voice of: Samuel L. Jackson
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House. The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and successive assassinations of three of his close friends—Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only thirty completed pages of his manuscript. Now, in his incendiary documentary, master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin’s original words and flood of rich archival material.
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018 | 118 min. | Color | DCP
Directed by: Barry Jenkins
Cast: Kiki Layne, Stephan James, Colman Domingo, Teyonah Parris, Diego Luna, Dave Franco, Pedro Pascal, Regina King and Brian Tyree Henry
Based on the novel by James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk is the story of Tish, a newly engaged Harlem woman who races against the clock to prove her lover's innocence while carrying their first born child to term. It is a celebration of love told through the story of a young couple, their families and their lives, trying to bring about justice through love, for love and the promise of the American dream.