Eva Victor on pitching their debut film, Sorry, Baby: ‘It felt so personal I thought rejection might kill me’
Odd as it might sound, Victor’s note-perfect script, drawn from personal experience of sexual assault, is a trauma comedy
Barry Jenkins
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The Fire Inside review: The Olympic champion Claressa ‘T-Rex’ Shields deserves an Oscar-worthy biopic. This isn’t quite that
This Barry Jenkins-scripted sports drama has enough quality to please genre and sports enthusiasts but feels like an undercard fixture
Mufasa: The Lion King review – This follow-up has a hungry cash-box where its soul should be
Never mind Disney’s classic cartoons. Its dull origin story of Simba’s father is closer to those pseudo-storytelling live-action TV shows from the 1960s
Mufasa director Barry Jenkins: I’ll say, ‘I was at the Oscars when they read out the wrong name.’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, you’re that guy!’
The film-maker’s big moment was almost eclipsed when La La Land, not Moonlight, was announced as best picture. Now his Lion King prequel is about to occupy Christmas
Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online
Art house classics rub shoulders with Palme d’Or winners and critically acclaimed works
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
Irish movies feature strongly at Toronto International Film Festival
Canadian event is the most important cinema festival in North American calendar
If Beale Street Could Talk: A seductive, exemplary movie
Review: Barry Jenkins’s third film is least as good as his Oscar-winning Moonlight
Barry Jenkins: ‘Being poor and black in Miami was all I knew’
The 'If Beale Street Could Talk' director on the Oscars mix-up and what's next
Toronto film festival: Oscar contenders ‘Roma’ and ‘Beale Street’ impress
Academy Award talk is a tradition in Toronto, and this year’s festival is no different
Ticket Awards 2017: The best films of the year
Here are our favourite film moments of the last year. Don't forget to vote for yours
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins, from the Projects to the Oscars
From the Miami Projects and care homes to college jock and an almost-stalled film career, Barry Jenkins’s route to eight Oscar nods is as extraordinary as his film Moonlight
Moonlight review: A near-perfect film
Barry Jenkins meticulous, emotional triptych on masculinity, identity and sexuality offers up a remarkable new American hero for our age
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