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Film Critic Harlan Jacobson sees the American Landscape in Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad on Amazon


Thuson Mbedu as Cora in The Underground Railroad
In four films Barry Jenkins has established himself as a high artist of the Black American experience. Gaining heft and budget from his success with
Moonlight and
If Beale Street Could Talk, Jenkins signed up both Brad Pitt’s Plan B Pictures and Jeff Bezos’ Amazon to tackle one of the biggest projects on race in America, the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize winning 2016 novel,
The Underground Railroad.
While it may be tempting to see in Barry Jenkins’ Tolstoyan adaptation of
The Underground Railroad, the influences of painters Julius Block, Kerry James Marshall and various film directors, as the New Yorker did in its review this week. All of us do project a bit of our own influences into likenesses we recognize. I just did with Tolstoy, for it’s clear to me that both Jenkins and Whitehead saw the dying light of a way of illegitimate life in their big canvas stories. ....

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Review: 'The Underground Railroad' is a masterpiece that raises series TV to the level of art


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One viewer s historically inaccurate torture porn is another s landmark streaming event. That s the range of reactions to The Underground Railroad, Amazon Prime s indelible and indispensable 10-episode take on Colson Whitehead s Pulitzer-winning 2016 novel about slavery and the continuing myth that it s been eradicated.
You can binge the film version of The Underground Railroad or contemplate its themes over time. I d take the no-rush approach to this new American classic since director and co-writer Barry Jenkins, an Oscar winner for Moonlight, has packed each charged episode with enough ....

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The Underground Railroad Is the Cinematic Event of the Year


The Underground Railroad Is the Cinematic Event of the Year
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The Underground Railroad the miniseries adaptation directed, co-written, and produced by filmmaker Barry Jenkins is an excavation of a wound that has yet to heal.
This wound the existence and afterlife of the transatlantic slave trade, which rewrote the rules of the world and the castes we have been slotted into is one of the essential markers of American life. It has been festering for over 400 years and weighs on every step Black people take, individually and as a people, to this day. In charting the particulars of this wound through the lives of its characters, both enslaved and free, ....

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