Looking for Langston(Movie, 1989)

Name: Looking for Langston
Genre: Drama
Released: 1989
Duration: T00:45:00
Rating: 2.6

| 45min | Genre: Drama

Rating: 2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Looking for Langston is a 1989 British black-and-white film, directed by Isaac Julien and produced by Sankofa Film & Video Productions. It combines authentic archival newsreel footage of Harlem in the 1920s with scripted scenes to produce a non-linear impressionistic storyline celebrating black gay identity and desire during the artistic and cultural period known as the Harlem Renaissance in New York. The film has a runtime of about 42 minutes. ()

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About 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.

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Plays in: Harlem

Made by: British Film Institute (BFI), Sankofa Film & Video

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 5 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Dutch (NL), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date US: 10/31/1989

Cast: Jimmy Somerville, Langston Hughes, Stuart Hall

Director: Isaac Julien

Screenwriter: Isaac Julien

Director of Photography: Nina Kellgren

Keywords: lgbt, harlem renaissance, gay

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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Looking for Langston(Movie, 1989)

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