Her adaptation of Kemp Powers’ stage play is a historical document written to presuppose what conversations these fellows might’ve had in private and away from prying ears, a compelling fiction rooted in reality. But that doesn’t rob One Night in Miami of the “delight” clause, thanks in no small part to crackling performances by a cast comprising a cadre of exceptional young actors (Eli Goree, Leslie Odom Jr., Aldis Hodge, Kingsley Ben-Adir), and directed with cool confidence by Regina King in her feature debut. Subjects crossing the characters’ lips include, of course, boxing, and women, and rowdiness, but they’re joined by other, more important subjects like Black American identity, American identity, and how the two interact with one another. But the four men are Sam Cooke, Cassius Clay, Jim Brown, and most of all Malcolm X the town is actually the Magic City and the specific evening is February 25, 1964, when heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston crossed gloves with Clay and lost his title in an upset. Stars: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Eli Goree, Aldis Hodge, Leslie Odom JrĪ barebones summary of One Night in Miami sounds like a dude’s delight movie: Four men out on the town, no attachments to keep them in line, and a limit to their evening revelry that extends skyward. Here are the 50 best movies streaming on Amazon Prime right now: 1. Not to worry, though: There were plenty of great movies waiting to take their place…we just had to dig them up by battling Amazon’s notoriously terrible user interface.
Half a dozen films from this list left the service this November, as much heads to IMDb TV (also owned by Amazon) and to rental. And that’s not to mention the counterintuitive, migraine-inducing browsing, or the service’s penchant for dropping a title unexpectedly only for it to reappear under a different link just as unexpectedly. The film premiered in competition for the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Queer Palm and Mara tied with Emmanuelle Bercot for the Best Actress award.Amazon Prime is a teeming streaming treasure trove of some of the most esoteric, wonderful and underseen cinema of the past 80 years, though good picks can feel nearly impossible to cull from the sometimes overwhelming glut of weirdly terrible titles buried in Prime’s nether regions. Keep your eyes out for the scene in the restaurant where, sitting opposite one another, they exude an erotic desire to just be together- all else be damned. Lushly lit in deep reds, this tale of courting, and loving across barriers of gender has the shadow of tragedy following it, even as it charts the ecstasies of forbidden love. Cate Blanchette and Rooney Mara play characters who fall in love in 1950s New York.
Carol (2015)īased on the 1952 romance novel The Prince Of Salt, republished in 1990 as Carol, the namesake film directed by Todd Haynes is a landmark moment in the queer mainstream cannon. Set before the AIDS crisis swept up NYC, this film instead focuses on the emotional momentum of the gay identity, before its association with disease and the American indifference to loss of lives. The narrator of the story Beth (Sophia Lillis) finds courage and communion in him as she is trying to navigate the tricky waters of teenage rebellion. The film shuttles between Frank’s (Paul Bettany) life in New York, loving and living with Wally (Peter Macdissi), an immigrant from Saudi Arabia, and his small-town where he is an outcast.
Set in the 1970s, Uncle Frank is a comedy-drama road movie about a closeted gay man who is forced to confront his past. The two scenes on the beach - one of being propped up by a paternal figure on the salty afternoon waters, and the other sealing the indigo night with a tense kiss - have such visual and emotional potency, they refuse traditional labels of representation by being so specific in intention and articulation.
Each phase, leavened by his mother’s addiction and the overt pressures of the racist, masculine system, is propped by a visual intimacy and immediacy the frames stay with you.
Winner of 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture, director Barry Jenkins crafts with his characteristic deft, tender framing the coming-of-age of Chiron in Miami at the height of the crack epidemic - from a child to an adolescent to an adult. Here is a list of films and shows that you can find on Amazon Prime Video. This is a great time to delve into the queer catalogue of films and shows that platform queer lives as they are lived. The month of June is Pride Month, which celebrates the 1969 Stonewall riots in New York City that put front-and-center the desire to be and love whomever, however.