Barry Jenkins’s Adventures in Moviegoing

Barry Jenkins’s Adventures in Moviegoing

9 Episodes

The director of IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK and MOONLIGHT joined us to talk about film school, second impressions, and the art of seeing as an amateur—and to select an eclectic group of personal favorites.

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Barry Jenkins’s Adventures in Moviegoing
  • Barry Jenkins in Conversation

    Episode 1

    The director of MOONLIGHT on a lifetime of moviegoing

  • Barry Jenkins on THE THREE COLORS TRILOGY

    Episode 2

  • Three Colors: Blue

    Episode 3

    Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1993 • France
    Starring Juliette Binoche, Benoit Régent

    In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. But BLUE is m...

  • Three Colors: White

    Episode 4

    Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1994 • France
    Starring Julie Delpy, Zbigniew Zamachowski

    The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski's Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts t...

  • Three Colors: Red

    Episode 5

    Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski • 1994 • France
    Starring Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant

    Krzysztof Kieślowski closes his Three Colors trilogy in grand fashion, with an incandescent meditation on fate and chance, starring Irène Jacob as a sweet-souled yet somber runway model in Geneva whose ...

  • Barry Jenkins on LA CIÉNAGA

    Episode 6

  • La Ciénaga

    Episode 7

    Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • Argentina, Spain
    Starring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce

    The release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beaut...

  • Barry Jenkins on WHITE MATERIAL

    Episode 8

  • White Material

    Episode 9

    Directed by Claire Denis • 2009 • France
    Starring Isabelle Huppert, Christophe Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé

    In WHITE MATERIAL, the great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. Played by a ferocious Isabelle...