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JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH — SHAKA KING IN CONVERSATION

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I’m completely aware of the myriad of contradictions that exist not only to try and make a movie like this, but me just wanting to have the kind of career I want to have, and the politics that I have and all of those co-existing. — Shaka King

On the occasion of the release of JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH in theaters and on HBO Max, director Shaka King will join the film’s stars Daniel Kaluuya and Dominique Fishback in conversation.

Your r.s.v.p. includes a screener link to the film. Information below.

  JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH—SHAKA KING, DANILE KALUUYA, and DOMINIQUE FISHBACK IN CONVERSATION

American Cinematheque

Thursday, March 4.

6 pm on the West Coast, 9 pm East Coast.

  JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH

Written by Will Berson and Skaka King, directed by King.

HBO Max

Streaming through March 14.

Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah (2021), from top: Daniel Kaluuya (foreground center), Darrell Britt-Gibson (immediate left), and LaKeith Stanfield (second from right); Kaluuya and Britt-Gibson (left); Dominique Fishback and Kaluuya; Caleb Eberhardt (left), Britt-Gibson, Kaluuya, and Stanfield; Stanfield (foreground) and Kaluuya; Judas and the Black Messiah poster; Stanfield and Jesse Plemons; Martin Sheen; Dominque Thorne, Kaluuya, Britt-Gibson, and Eberhardt; director Shaka King and Kaluuya. Photographs by Glen Wilson, images courtesy and © the filmmaker and Warner Bros.

MELINA MATSOUKAS AND LENA WAITHE — QUEEN & SLIM

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I don’t want this movie to be as relevant as it is. But the scary thing is the movie becomes more and more relevant with every passing day. The script is almost a result of my trauma. I’m a black person in the world watching TV like everybody else. The work that artists are doing right now, this is us trying to put a time stamp on the society in which we live. It is a violent one. It is a cold one, and yet we still are stylish and we still are funny and we still love and we still smoke weed and we still do crab boils. Even in the midst of this trauma, we survive, we live, and that, to me, is what the real meditation of this movie became. — Lena Waithe

Written by Waithe—from an idea by James Frey—and directed by Melina Matsoukas, QUEEN & SLIM opened this year’s AFI FEST and has gone on to ignite audiences across the country. Compared by critics to Bonnie and Clyde and Thelma and Louise—and by its writer to Set It Off—the film stars Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya in the title roles, with backup by Bokeem Woodbine, Sturgill Simpson, Chloë Sevigny, Flea, and Indya Moore.

QUEEN & SLIM

Now playing.

Alamo Drafthouse

700 West 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

L.A. Live

1000 West Olympic Boulevard, downtown Los Angeles.

Arclight Hollywood

6360 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles.

Laemmle Noho

5240 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood.

Melina Matsoukas, Queen & Slim (2019), from top: Jodie Turner-Smith and Daniel Kaluuya; Turner-Smith; Kaluuya; Bokeem Woodbine and Indya Moore; Kaluuya and Turner Smith (2); Moore, Woodbine, Turner-Smith, and Kaluuya; Turner-Smith, and Kaluuya; Turner-Smith. Images courtesy and © the filmmaker, the actors, and Universal Pictures.