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Looking for Langston
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.
- Original title
- Looking for Langston
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US,GB
- Budget
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- Revenue
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Dublin James Wahlberg
Carlos
Jimmy Somerville
Angel
Langston Hughes
Self (archive footage)
Stuart Hall
British (voice)
Isaac Julien
Director
Isaac Julien
Screenplay
O Silêncio Que Você Faz
FENNEL
The Rooftop
American Beauty
Billy Elliot
All About My Mother
Swain
Get Real
Paradise Now
Walk on Water
Maspalomas
Before Night Falls
Edge of Seventeen
Dossier 51
Get on the Bus
Five Times Two
Christmas at the Ranch
Little Death
Adoption
Super 8½
Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon
Porn Theatre
Homecoming
Dressed in Blue
Grande école
Heat
I Love You, I Don't
The Man Who Loves
Muscle
On the Edge
The Disco Years
The Malatily Bathhouse
Rhapsody
Resurrection
Release
Summer
The Best Men
Postmortem
Le Crime d'amour
Into the Night
Happy Endings Sleepover
Red Lodge
Glen or Glenda
Serene Hunter
Diferente
The Illiac Passion
Son, I Love Your Mouth 2: The Taste of the Forbidden
Wiener Brut
Faggot
Roses, the Sea and the Sun
How to Be Alone
Cadillac Blues
No Brakes
Jumpsuit
Red Velvet
Distances
Canis Majoris
Poligala
A Prayer Before Birth
Refracción
Buddies
Prayers for Bobby
Ben-Hur
The Hill
Pretty Boy
August Rush
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Les Misérables
Advise & Consent
Nightmare Alley
Any Day Now
Just Charlie
Walk. Ride. Rodeo.
Lilting
Eleanor the Great
Woodlawn
The Dead
Same Kind of Different as Me
Adopt a Highway
Here
Love Is Strange
Sleep, My Love
Avalon High
Wonderstruck
Won't Back Down
Mansfield Park
The Truth About Emanuel
How Sarah Got Her Wings
Oct 31, 1989
