Soup & Cinema: If Beale Street Could Talk

Soup & Cinema Series – Let’s Go There!

$15.00 General Admission, $16 at the door (if available)
includes a bowl of house-made soup, bread, and sweet treat for dessert

Series pass – $55

*Seating to this event is limited – please purchase your tickets in advance!*
Join us for a new series celebrating film and community, featuring four award-winning films from the last decade. In each selected film setting plays a notable role in the storytelling, beautifully immersing the audience in place and time.

4 Wednesdays:

Feb. 25th – If Beale Street Could Talk (2019, 117 min, R)
March 11th – Paterson ( 2016, 115 mi, R)
March 25th – Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, 99 min, R)
April 8th -Brooklyn (2015, 111 min, PG-13)

Tonight’s feature: If Beale Street Could Talk

Directed by Barry Jenkins, starring Kiki Layne, Regina King, Stephan James

Set in early-1970s Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is a timeless and moving love story of both a couple’s unbreakable bond and the African-American family’s empowering embrace, as told through the eyes of 19-year-old Tish Rivers (screen newcomer KiKi Layne).

“If Beale Street Could Talk is a gorgeous, enveloping film…” – Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic

“Beautiful performances, gorgeous photography, stirring screenplay, wonderful music. Everything brought together with strength and wisdom by Barry Jenkins.” – Wesley Lovell, Cinema Sight