But the moment it clicks that Fruitvale Station is doing something special — avoiding many of Hollywood's pitfalls in depicting "troubled" Black youth, and traumatic violence against Black people — ...
(The Root) — Fruitvale Station — a film chronicling the final day of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Oakland, Calif., native who was shot and killed by a transit-police officer on New Year’s Day in ...
Do you remember when Fruitvale Station was going to win, or at least be nominated, for all the major Oscar awards? Do you remember when Michael B. Jordan was going to win Best Actor, or when Ryan ...
“Fruitvale Station” is hugely effective meat-and-potatoes moviemaking, and one hell of a feature film debut for writer-director Ryan Coogler.Lean (84 minutes), swift and full of life, Coogler’s ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two years out of the University of Southern California's film school, Ryan Coogler is still paying down his debt. That may not be the case for long. Coogler's first feature ...