Fences (2016)
Directed by Denzel Washington
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
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Advised to try drama, Lady Bird fits right in with Father Leviatch's (Stephen Henderson, "Fences") troop, immediately zeroing in on the musical production's star Danny (Lucas Hedges, "Manchester by the Sea").
It's a good thing when the worst that can be said of a movie is it should have been longerthis one does nine months in 90 minutes, and one of the stubs is the unfinished story of a theater-teaching priest (Stephen Henderson, Fences) who has a breakdown.
My favorite is the drama teacher, played by Stephen Henderson of “Fences,” who in a quick couple of minutes gives us a glimpse of this guy’s entire life.
Denzel Washington’s Fences feels very much like a filmed version of an August Wilson production and it’s dead boring outside of the caliber of its lead performances, but Iannucci succeeds where so many s have failed by making the audience a participant.
This includes popular and critical successes like Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station and Creed , Ava DuVernay’s Selma , Denzel Washington’s adaptation of Fences , and 12 Years a Slave , but also the scandalous rise and fall of Nate Parker’s ambitious Birth of a Nation , the restoration of Richard Wright’s Native Son film, the discoveries of Kathleen Collins’s Losing Ground and of the teenage avant-garde filmmaker Edward Owens, and the release of the scholarly, multi-disc box set Pioneers of African American Cinema .