The Underground Railroad review: A remarkable American epic
3 years, 7 months ago

The Underground Railroad review: A remarkable American epic

BBC  

The Underground Railroad review: A remarkable American epic Amazon Prime There have been a number of recent dramas depicting the experience of slavery. The main character, Cora, makes several stops on the railroad's route as she runs from enslavement on a Georgia plantation, pursued obsessively by a slavecatcher named Ridgeway. Amazon Prime South African actress Thuso Mbedu plays heroine Cora with great assurance Eventually Cora flees the plantation with her friend Caesar. Amazon Prime Cora is pursued by a slavecatcher named Ridgeway along with his enigmatic sidekick Homer Jenkins directed all 10 episodes and wrote or co-wrote several.

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The waking dream of ’The Underground Railroad’
3 years, 7 months ago

The waking dream of ’The Underground Railroad’

Live Mint  

The Underground Railroad was the name given to the complex clandestine network of abolitionists, Quakers, activists and former slaves who helped spirit African-Americans to safety in the 1800s. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead imagined it as an actual railway line on which Cora, a runaway from the deep south, travels, pursued by the terrifying …

How Amazon's 'Underground Railroad' avoided traumatizing cast
3 years, 7 months ago

How Amazon's 'Underground Railroad' avoided traumatizing cast

LA Times  

Barry Jenkins vividly recalls the moment he first heard about the Underground Railroad. “I was around 5 or 6, and when I first heard those words, it wasn’t even imagined — I saw Black people on trains that were underground,” he recalled. Jenkins brings his childhood vision of the railroad full circle with the highly anticipated “The Underground Railroad,” Amazon’s …

The Underground Railroad: Amazon Prime Video show creators on adapting Colson Whitehead's book for screen
3 years, 7 months ago

The Underground Railroad: Amazon Prime Video show creators on adapting Colson Whitehead's book for screen

Firstpost  

“This isn’t the first slave narrative that’s been made, but I think we’re creating these images in a way, cinematically, that they just haven’t been created before,” says The Underground Railroad director Barry Jenkins. “To my surprise, only 10 percent of the people said that it shouldn’t be done,” Jenkins told me when I visited him in Atlanta near the …

The Underground Railroad review: A sweeping, complex narrative of American slavery
3 years, 7 months ago

The Underground Railroad review: A sweeping, complex narrative of American slavery

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, this 10-part series …

The Underground Railroad: Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead, how writers chronicled the resistance to slavery
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The Underground Railroad: Toni Morrison to Colson Whitehead, how writers chronicled the resistance to slavery

Firstpost  

Under the cover of darkness, the enslaved people of America fled further North in search of freedom. Sethe, the runaway protagonist of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, escapes from Kentucky to Ohio, ferried across the river by the Underground Railroad agent Stamp Paid. Harriet Tubman is rightly famous for how boldly she faced those risks.” Tubman, who made several trips back and …

Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’
3 years, 7 months ago

Barry Jenkins on his unflinching epic ‘Underground Railroad’

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Underground Railroad into a limited series, he kept hearing the same thing: Impossible. “The choice was to protect these children out of faith that at some point this thing would end and these children would go on and carry the legacy.’” During …

Barry Jenkins on Underground Railroad: 'The most satisfying creative experience of my life'
3 years, 7 months ago

Barry Jenkins on Underground Railroad: 'The most satisfying creative experience of my life'

Hindustan Times  

When Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins was considering adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the Underground Railroad into a limited series, he kept hearing the same thing: Impossible. Filmmaker Barry Jenkins latest project, the 10-hour limited series “The Underground Railroad,” premieres Thursday on Amazon. “The choice was to protect these children out of faith that at some point this thing …

Barry Jenkins on why ‘The Underground Railroad’ is a passion project
3 years, 7 months ago

Barry Jenkins on why ‘The Underground Railroad’ is a passion project

The Hindu  

Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is set in an alternate timeline in the 19th Century featuring an actual railroad to help slaves escape. I always wanted to use my voice to create something that involves the story of my ancestors.” Adapting the novel was mainly a matter of curation, Jenkins said. Adapting was about understanding what from the book was …

Barry Jenkins' show The Underground Railroad releases new trailer
3 years, 8 months ago

Barry Jenkins' show The Underground Railroad releases new trailer

Daily Mail  

The official trailer for Barry Jenkins' Amazon Prime limited series The Underground Railroad was released on Thursday. Tense: Joel Edgerton stars as a slave catcher mercilessly tracking newcomer Thuso Mbedu in the trailer for Barry Jenkins' new show The Underground Railroad, released on Thursday The trailer opens with glimpses of Cora's life in the South before she discovers the Underground …

Barry Jenkins’ ‘Underground Railroad’ teaser bowls over peers: ‘I am not ready’
4 years, 2 months ago

Barry Jenkins’ ‘Underground Railroad’ teaser bowls over peers: ‘I am not ready’

LA Times  

Barry is back, and we’re not ready. On Monday, Barry Jenkins, acclaimed director of the Oscar-winning films “Moonlight” and “If Beale Street Could Talk,” shared a teaser trailer for “The Underground Railroad,” the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series that he wrote, produced and directed. It’s that simple.” The “Underground Railroad” limited series is based on Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning …

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