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 frame... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe results are certainly striking--stylistically, intellectually, and sensually. |
| User ReviewJason Y[b]VHS[/b] First Viewing, 1 Julien film seen Langston Hughes was gay. Most of the writers from the "roaring 20s" Harlem Rennaisance were. History likes to leave out that fact. It's a notion coined as "historical erasure." Did you know that Walt Whitman was gay, too? Not that it matters in terms of prejudice, but in understanding a certain experience, this information is extremely important. [i]Looking for Langston [/i]is a 45-minute visual poem and meditation on Langston Hughes. It's sort of hard to explain. I guess it is a visual representation of what a poem would look like. That's at least what I got from it. I only watched this film because it was assigned for class, but it is the kind of film I would like to see in other situations. [i]Brother to Brother[/i], a film I watched over the summer, is pretty much the only one I can compare it to (sort of). So if you read up on [i]Looking for Langston[/i], but can't find a copy of it anywhere, you might want to go to Blockbuster and pick up a copy of [i]Brother to Brother[/i]. You'll get the same sort of education on the matter (it's just a lot less artsy). |
| User ReviewSam PInteresting images and great poetry...but not very insightful into the life of Langston Hughes. In general, disappointing. |
