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'The Color Purple' director Blitz Bazawule shares freestyle behind-the-scenes videos of the film's extensive dance ensemble

One clip showed the cast singing the gospel hit "Melodies from Heaven." Bazawule thanked the choreographers and dance ensemble who worked on the film. 'The Color Purple' director Blitz Bazawule ...
Yahoo

'The Color Purple's' Thanksgiving dinner table scene is its most powerful. How it got made

Danielle Brooks is unpacking one of the most powerful scenes in “The Color Purple,” set at a Thanksgiving dinner table — and what helped her to get to that moment of “rebirth and renewal.” In the ...
The Root

The Woman Behind ‘The Color Purple’ Dance Scenes also Created These Iconic Dance Moves

The Color Purple has been declared the second-biggest Christmas Day film release of all time. Along with dynamic acting and singing, there are also fantastic dance sequences. Fatima Robinson, a widely ...
Today

Danielle Brooks on the making of ‘The Color Purple’ Thanksgiving dinner table scene

Warning: This post contains spoilers for "The Color Purple." Danielle Brooks is unpacking one of the most powerful scenes in “The Color Purple,” set at a Thanksgiving dinner table — and what helped ...
Fast Company

How ‘The Color Purple’ brought the inner world of its characters to life

From the opening shot of Blitz Bazawule’s retelling of The Color Purple, audiences will know this is not their mother’s version of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel. Distinct from Steven Spielberg’s 1985 film ...
collider

Grab the Tissues — The Most Heartbreaking Scene Steven Spielberg Ever Directed Is on Max

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...
The Root

Is the Behind-the-Scenes Drama Hurting ‘The Color Purple’ During Movie Award Season?

What’s getting lost in all this messy gossip is that “The Color Purple” is a triumphant story of sisterhood and female empowerment. We should be talking about the tour de force performances of Henson, ...
Rolling Out

A deeper look at ‘The Color Purple’ movie from other angles

I wrote a review of The Color Purple movie almost forty years ago in a student newspaper. I was sure not to read it while stealing away time to configure words to describe style, rhythm, content, ...
FilmBook

The Color Purple Review

The Color Purple (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Blitz Bazawule, written by Marcus Gardley, Alice Walker and Marsha Norman and starring Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, ...
IndieWire

‘The Color Purple’ Musical Required Close Collaboration Between Costumes and Choreography

Costume designer Francine Jamison-Tanchuck and choreographer Fatima Robinson talk about their love for the 1985 film and making the story their own for a new musical version. When director Blitz ...
collider

The Color Purple: How Accurate Is the Musical to the Book?

Brandon is a San Antonio based writer with a Bachelors Degree in English. His favorite series is 'The Wheel of Time,' but loves all things Sci-fi Fantasy and Horror. In his free time, expect to find ...