(8.3) Thursday’s Movies on the Block will feature last year’s sleeper hit “Moonlight” — three Oscars including, who could forget, Best Picture — directed by Barry Jenkins, and starring Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, and Duan Sanderson. Hilton Als, writing for The New Yorker
Did I ever imagine, during my anxious, closeted childhood, that I’d live long enough to see a movie like “Moonlight,” Barry Jenkins’s brilliant, achingly alive new work about black queerness?
Rated R. Running time: 1 hour, 51 minutes. (Facebook event page.)
[One thing Don Corleone can’t control — the weather. “The Godfather” has been moved again to Friday night at 8:08pm.]
“Moonlight,” sunset 8:01pm, Thursday, August 3, Grant’s Block, 260 Westminster Street, (directions)
