It was another big day on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival with two hugely anticipated movies, one a big studio star-laden remake, the other a small very personal passion project with a largely unknown cast, getting the red carpet premiere treatment.
What draws Warner Bros.
A Star Is Born and Annapurna’s If Beale Street Could Talk also together though is they both are beautifully touching love stories laced with real life heartbreak.
Both will clearly be in the Oscar conversation, as well they should.Skipping Telluride, where he premiered his Oscar winning Best Picture Moonlight and was a staff member for years, Barry Jenkins choseToronto for Sunday’s unveiling at the Princess Of Wales for his Moonlight follow-up If Beale Street Could Talk and judging by the exceptional reaction and standing ovation he made the right decision.
Faithful to the late James Baldwin’s 1974 book, this
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