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AFS screening of ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ May 2 and May 4

"If Beale Street Could Talk" (Promotional image)

LAKE PLACID – The Adirondack Film Society is partnering with the grassroots freedom education and human rights organization, John Brown Lives!, and the region’s indispensable cultural hub, the Lake Placid Center for the Arts to present the first film to bring the written work of the great American novelist and essayist James Baldwin to the big screen–hailed by one film reviewer as a “bold, bluesy and beautiful” love story.

The 2018 Academy Award-winning (for Best Supporting Actress Regina King) narrative feature, “If Beale Street Could Talk” will be shown at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 2 and Saturday, May 4 at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts.

The film is written and directed by Barry Jenkins, whose previous film, “Moonlight,” won the Academy Award for Best Picture of 2016. For this latest film, Mr. Jenkins was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, based on the novel of the same name by Baldwin, an African-American who was a champion of civil rights and a fierce opponent of racism.

Tickets to the screenings are $10 each and are available at the door as well as by advance reservation via the LPCA box office (518-523-2512, lakeplacidarts.org).

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