Barry Jenkins on the Challenge of Adapting If Beale Street Could Talk

Barry Jenkins has come to Houston.  Sitting in a meeting room at the Four Seasons, he’s touring the country with his follow up to 2016’s Oscar winning Moonlight, a sprawling, ambitious adaptation of James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk.”  It’s a book and a film much like the director – thoughtful and complex – who sits in a red shirt and gold-rimmed glasses in…