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Keeping The Issues Alive - February 9
For this week's newsletter, Kevin Gosztola reviews "If Beale Street Could Talk" and offers some commentary on why the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences did not nominate it for "Best Picture."
The aesthetic of a Barry Jenkins film is rather poetic. Deliberate framing and lingering shots center the emotions of…