Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race. Rebecca Hall made her directorial debut with the ...

Passing may be a black-and-white film, but the story it tells is anything but. Based on the 1929 fiction novel of the same name by Nella Larsen, Passing introduces audiences to recently reunited ...

Movie adaptations of novels are like tomcats, unfaithful by nature. And Nella Larsen’s “Passing” would have seemed “unfilmable” anyway, its conventional action limited, its emotions internalized.

Passing, starring Marvel actor Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga is a story of two friends with different lives in the New York City of the 1920s and 30s. Netflix, which acquired the movie at the Sundance ...

As a white-passing biracial woman, I really resonated with Rebecca Hall's film adaptation of Nella Larsen's 1929 novel, Passing. The story centers on two biracial Black women, Irene Redfield (Tessa ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

Adapted from Nella Larsen's 1929 novella, Netflix's new film centers on two Black women, one of whom pretends to be white; the other could pretend, but chooses not to. This is FRESH AIR. In the new ...