Barry Jenkins
@BarryJenkins
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Joined June 2012
Not sure what the capacity of this stadium is but hot DAMN @BTS_twt is LIT 🔥 — maybe they should play the Super Bowl??? 👌🏿👀🤯
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Happy Mother's Day to Janice Burgess, award-winning creator of the wonderful BACKYARDIGANS. I don't know whether Ms. Burgess has children of her own, but she very clearly helped raised a whole lotta y'all's kids with this most fantastic show, so. a salute to her 💐
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First of all, may she rest as she lived - in immeasurable POWER. And also. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK.
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BLACK PANTHER is PEAK double consciousness. It’s a Marvel movie, sure. And a blockbuster, absolutely, covers those bases and covers them well. But a film that features that vegetarian bit? Or Kilmonger’s last line? Ryan’s made two movies at once. And he crushed them both 🙌🏿.
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This. actually happened. DAYUM.
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I’ve been better about keepin my mouf shut on this here platform BUT it is so clearly Elizabeth Warren. I’ve seen enough. And the idea that Buttigieg could have come out ahead of her in ANYTHING at this point says sooooooooo much about US, about where we are right now.
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Say what you will about winning and losing and this and that but. SOOOOOOO much love and celebration here amongst the @ROMACuaron team, VIVA 🇲🇽🙏🏿♥️🙌🏿
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This is a thing we did 🙏🏿. MOONLIGHT.8 x 11 in. / 224 pages .- Forward by Frank Ocean.- Essay by Hilton Als .- Academy Award Acceptance speeches.
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You can’t just blithely refer to Haiti as a “failed state” and NOT report how governments on both sides of the Atlantic ACTIVELY played and CONTINUE TO PLAY a role in bringing about that failure. It’s the internet. You have the real estate. Full. STOP.
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For me, August 2nd has always been a day to pay tribute, so. a teaser of what's to come. Happy Birthday, Jimmy 🙏🏿🙌🏿♥️
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Oluwatoyin Salau. This should not be. It just should. Not. Be 💔
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME — sweetness without a trace of sentimentality; a work made without fear of sentimentality. Sweetness beside sex. Sex that transmutes love. An intellectually rigorous examination that never loses warmth. Earnest, mature and endearing the whole way through.
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This is dope!
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I took this pic eight or so months ago but decided not to tweet it. If you had told me that by March 2021 it would be irrelevant I would’ve thought you crazy. An ass outta me
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Jordan Horowitz. Wow. I'm slipping slowly into reflection, perspective. Much respect to that dude.
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My my my: the Lord sure does work in mysterious ways — missed my morning flight and look at who I find on my rebooking!!!! “Who is you, Chiron?!” Love this Lil’ Dude! 💪🏿🙏🏿♥️
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I’m headed off to the desert for a few days. Unplugging. I did my best. I mean I gave this one. EVERYTHING. Sometimes it really do go Halle Berry. Or hallelujah. Hallelujah. 🙏🏿.
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A couple thangs about a couple thangs — BRIE LARSON kicked so much ass and served about fifty’leven looks in #AvengersEndgame and I was here for Every. Damn. One of ‘em👌🏿 . especially new’do’ Captain Marvel 💅🏿.
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A friend texted this to me. I. Words fail me. 🖤.
Hi, I’m me. And when I found out film scholars announced today that they restored an **1898** microfilm they believe is the earliest cinematic depiction of African-American love. did you fucking think that I *wouldn’t* immediately score it using IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK?
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In Moonlight, there’s only one song that plays twice, in two different time periods — ETERNAL ♥️
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It’s so strange to very clearly recognize that this is a photo of MY hand 🤣.
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THEY CLONED TYRONE is… SOOOOOOO damn good! 🤯. Like a modern day SPOOK WHO SAT BY THE DOOR with shades of EDGE OF TOMORROW and PLAYERS CLUB in the visual style of PEAK John McTiernan. And it’s just sitting there… on Netflix… getting a fraction of the flowers it deserves 🫠.
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True story — we made these lines up in the moment. The scripted scene ended with with Juan finishing the story quoting Abuela. We all three realized the conversation needed to go further. Alex asked the question, “So yo’ name Blue?— and that created the space for Juan’s answer 🙏🏿.
"At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you gonna be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.". Mahershala Ali's Academy Award-winning performance as Juan in @BarryJenkins Best Picture winner 'Moonlight.'
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Last thing: Mark Ruffalo is a TREMENDOUS FUCKING ACTOR. Full stop. Wonderful voice-work here; the computer whizzes do what they do & augment the expressions but what he does with his VOICE is some of the absolute finest work. My endless respect to that cat #AvengersEndgame.
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Feels like twenty years ago….
"In moonlight, black boys look blue. You blue, that's what I'm gon' call you. 'Blue'.". The many shades of Blue in Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) Best Picture winner "Moonlight."
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Umma let you finish but EMILY BLUNT made the greatest film of all time!!!!
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This weekend @BealeStreet expands to a little over 1000 screens nationwide, it’s never been closer to you than it is right now! Your patience has been dearly appreciated — Much, MUCH love ♥️💙🖤
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Certified hype: SPIDER-MAN #IntoTheSpiderVerse is magnificent! In being the best SPIDER-MAN film ever, one of the best films this year period & best tentpole since EDGE OF TOMORROW! The things I felt watching this 👌🏿🙏🏿 Hats off to @pramsey342 and Miami’s own @philiplord & crew 🙌🏿.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
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Lulu just said DIE HARD is like adult HOME ALONE and… now I can’t unsee it 🤣😭😵🤣😭😵😭😵.
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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE is an absolute BLAST — a loud, craven, Evel Knievel thrill-ride of a movie with a BIG ASS HEART. The @Daniels have taken a generation’s love of ALL KINDS of cinema and folded it into the multiverse family saga we’ve all sorely needed. A THREAD👇🏿.
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Helen Shaver, who directed the hell out of episode 5 of STATION ELEVEN, made her directorial debut at the age of 45. She is currently 70: directed the absolute HELL outta this. Was an actress before, soaking up MUCH on set but, still, proof it is NEVER too late to GIT AT IT 🙏🏿.
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This is sooo, sooooo lovely. Amazing what you find sometimes on this damn app. And 17 whole episodes in Season 1, money well spent 💕
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BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER . A thread 👇🏿. I don’t know how Ryan did this. Given everything, I’m speechless at how he (and his collaborators) did this. Thoughtful. Even more thoughtful than one would hope it would be given. EVERYTHING. Impossible. An impossible task.
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First halftime in a while where I wouldn’t have mined another twenty minutes.
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In other news, the woman next to me is watching NOTTING HILL. A few choice folks will get the irony of this happening on my last flight of this sojourn. Also. Julia Roberts is STUNNING in this film. And holy shit Lester Freamon is in this?!.
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Wow wow wow: imagine if, within five years, you and your two best homeboys or homegirls or any mix of the two+ whatever else forms your bond. all win THE most prestigious award in the craft you love and have dedicated your life to. Like. that’s HEAVEN.
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Creating and working on a piece this heavy, in theme and scope. And then talking about it — reliving it constantly — it can trap you in a dark, heavy space. Depressive. It’s been a long few months, but. then you’re sent this. Randomly. And you realize. it’s worth it 🥺💜
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“They were all staring, weren’t they? I can tell even if I can’t see. ”
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I just assumed Ms. Morrison would live forever. And in so many ways in so many hearts and minds and spirits, she will.
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Two weeks in isolation and. yeah. It’s gettin interesting
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Apropos of nothing and revisiting this way too late BUT. how is Ray Romano not a thing this year? That performance is 💯🙌🏿.
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Work and life were undeniably fused for this legend. She lived FULLY for every moment of those 90 damn years 😻
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My first student film, written/directed shortly after 9/11. A reminder to myself to channel this energy, to create.
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Harlem. It’s coming home 🙌🏿.
The U.S. premiere of @BarryJenkins's IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK will take place at the world famous @ApolloTheater, the first time that #NYFF will present a screening at the historic theater.
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Also, the Russo Bros are so fundamentally sound in the way they communicate spatial relationships between characters during set-pieces. It’s what truly separates their work on this scale from most others’. It’s truly jaw-dropping how grounded the audience is at all time.
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Day 1. Humbled. Feelin blessed, privileged, unworthy. But I’ll do my best to be WORTHY of Mr. Baldwin’s vision. 👀 y’all on the other side 🙌🏿
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ROGER DEAKINS throwin Mick Jagger vibes is a long overdue mood. Also: 🐐.
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When I first entered film school at @FSUFilm never thought I’d be privileged and fortunate enough to still be doing this 19 years later. Had a TON of help along the way. Thankful for every one of you. This is 40 🙏🏿
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The first look at @BarryJenkins' 'Moonlight' follow-up 'If Beale Street Could Talk,' premiering at @TIFF_NET:
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🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯. (Childhood me is SCREAMING!).
Recommendations of new original dramas that I watched on Amazon/Netflix in June. The Underground Railroad.KATLA.The Naked Director2
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A dream come true! Much love to the Baldwin Estate for having faith in me and @meganeellison for building us a home 🙌🏿
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Yes Moonlight is overrated Oscar trash and if you see this tweet you should help a young filmmaker out by DONATING TO THIS GOFUND ME!👇🏿
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2010 - The Social Network.2011- A Separation .2012- Until The Quiet Comes.2013- Post Tenebras Lux .2014- Ida.2015- Son of Saul.2016- Territory (The Blaze) .2017- The Rider.2018- Let The Sunshine In.
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Years later and EDGE OF TOMORROW totally holds up. What a straight up FANTASTIC film! So relieved to find myself in the same state of awe upon revisiting. Hot DAMN.
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Yeah, ROMA is fucking glorious. So wonderful to see an artist operating at peak performance level on such a personal, vigorous piece. The aesthetic is both personal and political here. The aesthetic is wielded to a wonderfully emotive, devastating effect.
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Has anybody figured what coat this is she’s wearing? I waited to ask this question, let the seriousness of the situation be properly discussed but. that color is LEGIT and we need to know this👌🏿.
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May 14th. The work of the last four years of my life. is yours.
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Day 116 of 116 is complete. At long last, that’s a wrap 🙏🏿
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