Love Jones

“This is Love Jones. It’s a perfect movie. I’m a hopeless romantic, as you can see from some of these movies I’m gonna grab. The performances from Larenz Tate and Nia Long in this movie are exceptional. The chemistry is off the charts. The intricacy of it. The film’s got an incredible dynamic range, like, of scenes of a lot of talking. There’s scenes with none. And shout out to the city of Chicago, man, which is gonna bring me to this other one.”

“Oh my God, Love Jones. Nia Long and Larenz Tate. This is such a moody, sexy, smooth, doused in butter and brown sugar of a film. It's just everything. I Love Jones.”

“Here's a film that finally exists on home video. You talk about a film that probably has impacted as many filmmakers of color as any movie the last 40 years, it would be this one. Just the chemistry between the two leads and the way music is used and maybe probably one of the first big budget films that really bring the sort of slam poetry as a kind of emotional evocation. The director should have surfaced again.”

“Love Jones. Sometimes Criterion introduces a movie to you. I did not know this movie at all. And I was just blown away. It’s such a… such a beautiful, tough… It’s a romantic comedy, but it’s also a really tough movie. And it’s a great Chicago movie, which is important to me. So Love Jones, a real discovery.”