Weekend Movie Selections

I'm Not Your Negro

A stunning documentary about James Baldwin's work as an artist and civil rights activist. The film has an ambitious goal: to use footage and narration (read by Samuel L. Jackson) to reconstruct Baldwin's unfinished opus

Remember This House

, a study of the life and death of assassinated civil activists, including Medgar Evers Malcolm X and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

PG-13

Fences August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a working-class African American family in the 1950s is transformed into a compelling, searing film in the hands of producer, director, and star Denzel Washington. He plays a charismatic, funny, energetic but embittered Pittsburgh garbage collector who derides anyone, including his wife, Rose (Viola Davis), and his best friend, who suggests life has improved for African Americans since the Civil War. PG-13

Moonlight A true American masterpiece, the sophomore feature from Barry Jenkins is a heady mix of brutal social realism and poetry as it tells the coming-of-age-story of a young black gay man from the Miami ghetto. Divided into three parts, it follows Chiron as a 10-year-old, a high school student, and as a 20-something professional as he wrestles with external forces he can't control, including poverty and drug crime, and internal desires he cannot ignore. R