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Looking for Langston (1989)

ALL 10/31/1989 (en) Drama 45 Min
  • Release
    10/31/1989
  • Production
    BFI, Sankofa Film & Video
  • Rotten tomato
    52%
  • Original title
    Looking for Langston
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.

  1. Isaac Julien

    Director

  2. Story



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  1. Ben Ellison

    Alex

  2. Matthew Baidoo

    Beauty

  3. Akim Mogaji

    James

  4. John Wilson

    Karl

  5. Dencil Williams

    Marcus

  6. Guy Burgess

    Dean

  7. Dublin James Wahlberg

    Carlos

  8. Harry Donaldson

    Leatherboy

  9. Jimmy Somerville

    Angel

  10. Langston Hughes

    Himself (archive footage)

  11. Stuart Hall

    British voice (voice)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 11 , Crews : 10

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Looking for Langston (1989) 45 Min

ALL 10/31/1989 (en)
Drama
  • Release 10/31/1989
  • Production
    BFI, Sankofa Film & Video
  • Original title Looking for Langston
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually.

  1. Isaac Julien

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Robert Hargreaves

    Editor

  4. Nadine Marsh-Edwards

    Producer



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