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Looking for Langston Capsule by Jonathan RosenbaumFrom the Chicago Reader
Isaac Julien's frankly erotic black-and-white meditation on the Harlem renaissance of the 1930s. Part narrative, part polemical essay, part lyrical art film, part documentary on Langston Hughes, this 1988 British film employs clips from various kinds of archival footage (including three Oscar Micheaux films), quotes from Hughes, Essex Hemphill, Bruce Nugent, Hilton Als, and James Baldwin (the last read by Toni Morrison), and memorable glimpses of a period nightclub where black and white men in tuxedos dance together. The results are certainly striking--stylistically, intellectually, and sensually. 40 min.
Looking for Langston Capsule by Jonathan RosenbaumFrom the Chicago Reader
Isaac Julien's frankly erotic black-and-white meditation on the Harlem renaissance of the 1930s. Part narrative, part polemical essay, part lyrical art film, part documentary on Langston Hughes, this 1988 British film employs clips from various kinds of archival footage (including three Oscar Micheaux films), quotes from Hughes, Essex Hemphill, Bruce Nugent, Hilton Als, and James Baldwin (the last read by Toni Morrison), and memorable glimpses of a period nightclub where black and white men in tuxedos dance together. The results are certainly striking--stylistically, intellectually, and sensually. 40 min.
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2 comments:
good but i think you could have contextualized Julien more in the context of queer film as discussed in the text.
also watch your awkward sentences:
"This is a short which was created in 1989 which gives perspective to the black gay man lifestyle in coping with homophobia, and white racism in the 1920’s this is not a biography but a memoriam to Langston Hughes."
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