the color purple – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

Fantasia Barrino on Healing, Celie and THE COLOR PURPLE – Bonnie Laufer interviews

December 21, 2023January 5, 2024 Bonnie Laufer Actors dealing with childhood trauma, alice walker, Celie, Colman Domingo, Director Blitz Bazawule, Fantasia Barrino, Fantasia's childhood traumas, H.E.R, Novel turned movie turned play turned movie, taraji p. henson, the color purple

The latest version of The Color Purple to hit the big screen is based on the stage musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker. The story involves the traumatic struggles of a young African American woman living in the South during the early 1900s. The film stars Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, H.E.R., Halle Bailey, and Fantasia Barrino in her film debut as the lead character, Celie. Bonnie Laufer caught up with Fantasia Barrino to talk about her big screen debut and how it differs from the stage performance.

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AWARDS INTELLIGENCER: Oscar Best Picture Noms Are a Muddle – Thelma Adams reports

December 14, 2023February 1, 2026 Thelma Adams All of Us Strangers, American Fiction, Anatomy of a Fall, awards intelligencer, barbenheimer, Barbie, best picture, fallen leaves, ferrari, Killers of the Flower Moon, Maestro, Oppenheimer, oscars, past lives, Poor Things, the color purple, The Holdovers, the promised land, The Taste of Things, The Teachers’ Lounge, TÓTEM

The Golden Globe nominations are in, along with those of the National Board of Review winners and a host of critics’ groups – Why is Oscar’s Best Picture still in such a muddle? It seems to me that the potential winners have been split into distinct categories, like potential Jeopardy questions: Barbenheimer; All the Big Dudes; The Cool Kids; The Internationals; and Outlier Odds and Ends.