Tag: Devon Terrell

  • ‘Barry’ or How Barack Obama Learned to Stop Worrying and Love His Blackness The Daily Beast 2016-12-20 Marlow Stern, Senior Entertainment Editor Netflix The new Netflix film ‘Barry’ explores young Obama’s days at Columbia University, torn between the world of his rich white girlfriend and the African-American community. There’s a scene in Dreams From My…

  • How ‘Barry’ Gets Obama Right—And Wrong Newsweek 2016-12-21 Matthew Cooper, Political Editor President Barack Obama during a White House news conference in Washington, December 16. A new Netflix production, “Barry,” charts his college years in New York, when “Barry,” as he was known, wrestled with his racial identity. JONATHAN ERNST/REUTERS There’s less than a month…

  • ‘Barry’ director on race, identity and why the young Obama matters Mashtable 2016-12-20 Proma Khosla Vikram Gandhi didn’t direct the Netflix biopic Barry because he cared about Barack Obama. He made it because he cared about a kid named Barry. Gandhi set out to discover who Barack was before he was Barack, back in 1981.…

  • Watch The Trailer For Barry, Netflix’s Barack Obama Biopic TIME 2016-11-22 Nash Jenkins There are just under two months until Donald Trump is inaugurated, but a sentimental nostalgia for Barack Obama’s presidency has been building for quite some time. The new trailer for Barry, a biographical film about Obama’s days as a student at Columbia…

  • ‘Barry’ Is An Introspection On President Obama’s Collegiate Years Black Girl Nerds 2016-11-06 Jamie Broadnax An Uneventful Origin Story Of Our First Black President The most profound experiences of our lives happen during those tumultuous years before we have achieved our own level of success.  The moment before we meet the love of our life, start…

  • Toronto Film Review: ‘Barry’ Variety 2016-09-10 Owen Gleiberman, Chief Film Critic Devon Terrell in Barry. Courtesy of TIFF Set in 1981, a canny and absorbing drama paints a highly convincing portrait of Barack Obama when he was a 20-year-old college student in New York, still piecing together who he was. In the movie world, there…