Looking for Langston

Oct 31, 1989

0h 45m

★ 5.0

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.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

BFI

Sankofa Film & Video

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Cast

Alex

Ben Ellison

Beauty

Matthew Baidoo

James

Akim Mogaji

Karl

John Wilson

Marcus

Dencil Williams

Dean

Guy Burgess

Carlos

Dublin James Wahlberg

Leatherboy

Harry Donaldson

Angel

Jimmy Somerville

Self (archive footage)

Langston Hughes

British (voice)

Stuart Hall

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