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Looking for Langston (B&W)

Ben Ellison (Actor), Matthew Baidoo (Actor), Isaac Julien (Director) Rated: Unrated Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Ben Ellison, Matthew Baidoo, Akim Mogaji, Jimmu Somerville
  • Directors: Isaac Julien
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Black & White, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Strand Releasing
  • DVD Release Date: July 31, 2007
  • Run Time: 60 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000RO6KAI
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,223 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5.0 out of 5 starsCelebrating Black Gay Desire
By T. Kelley on July 16, 2007
Format: DVD
In mainstream gay cinema, the images of the black gay man is somewhat controversial and contrived. Often, he is portrayed as the overly effete stereotype. For the sake of the dollar and to appeal to cross-cultural fetishistic interest to reach a wider audience, he is often shown preferring and seeking out the attentions of white gay men. Writer-director Isaac Julien's LOOKING FOR LANGSTON represents a departure from the status quo of the image of black gay men while also attempting to reclaim the black gay identity and history that only now is beginning to be widely acknowledged by the general black community.

LOOKING FOR LANGSTON can best be describe as impressionistic film-making. The film does not really follow any type of linear storytelling that the average movie viewer will expect. But, far from being intimidating, the film is viewable and can be enjoyed beyond the prejudices of the art house crowd. More, it is touted as being a meditation on the African-American poet Langston Hughes who was understandably a closeted gay man
who preferred emotionally, intellectually, and other the company of other black men, especially those of a handsome and dark complexion, in his love life and work. And, Julien is perfectly aware of this as his research indicates as it has already been documented that Hughes found white men of little sexual interest in life and work. Hughes is also employed as a kind of metaphor in the film to demonstrate the fact that black gay men are able to express love and desire for one another. This challenges the more widespread and universally popular prejudices and stereotyped images already mentioned.

The film is presented in black and white.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA brilliant counter-history
By Dr. Therese Grisham on November 9, 2001
Format: VHS Tape
Julien seeks to mine the archive of the Harlem Renaissance for what has been lost or forgotten, namely the role of gay black men--writers, visual artists, and singers--in official history. More than this, however, this film moves backward and forward in time, an homage to black gay men today and the dangers they face and have faced in U.S. history. The final coup of the film is that it is not about Langston Hughes but rather uses Hughes as an icon for the ineffability of identity itself--was Hughes gay or straight? Julien refuses to answer the question, refuses spectacle and surveillance as means of "spotting" identity. Julien's filmic language is also beautiful and subversive and he alters written texts, such as Bruce Nugent's Smoke, Lilies, and Jade (Nugent is now known as the first "out" African American writer) to fit his own political project. I have written an article on this film, 35 pages, forthcoming from VU University Press, Amsterdam, 2002, copyrighted, and think most reviews of the film are idiotic or simply do not understand the beauty and complexity of this very alternative film.
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5.0 out of 5 starsISAAC JULIEN SHINES THROUGH IN SUPERB FILMAKING
A Kid's Review on August 1, 2000
Format: VHS Tape
THIS FILM IS NOT A PORTRAYL OF LANGSTON HUGHES, IT REACHES TO ACHEIVE A COMMUNICATION BEYOND A SOUL INDIVIDUAL. IT CELEBRATES THE HARDSHIPS OF BEING BLACK, AND HOMOSEXUAL AS WELL. THIS FILM TRUELY ILLUSTRATES ONE MAN'S JOURNEY, BUT ALSO CONNECTS INTO THE LIVES OF OTHER GAY AND LESBIAN PEOPLE WITH THEIR OWN SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS. THIS FILMS CELEBRATES THE JOYFUL LIFESTYLE WHICH COMES ONLY WHEN ONE TRUELY FINDS THEMSELVES AND IS COMFORTABLE EXPRESSING A TRUE MEANING OF LOVE. ISAAC IS A WONDERFUL AND WARM ARTIST. THANKS FOR THE GREAT TIIME AT ArtPace! HOPE THINGS ARE WELL. JK-23YRS OLD
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5.0 out of 5 starsLooking for and at Langston
By J on June 23, 2000
Format: VHS Tape
Simply an excellent documentary. Whether one likes Langston's poetry or is interested in the Harlem Renaissance, this is a film well worth screening. Eqxuisititely shot and well-scripted, even if the Langston Estate did not approve, and with an elegantly postmodern twist to it, as the closing scene makes more than clear. Certainly, it is up to anyone's taste to decide if the visuals match the text, but surely the poetry chosen is unarguable and at least I found the narrative both informative and well done, especially given the limits of time and format, for - obviously - this is a documentary with definite artistic ambitions as well. But, in short, for anyone who likes Langston, this is a thing not a go without. A little black-and-white gem!
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5.0 out of 5 starsTreatise on Black Gay Desire & Impressionistic Cinema
By T. Kelley on April 19, 2006
Format: VHS Tape
In mainstream gay cinema, the images of the black gay man is somewhat controversial and contrived. Often, he is portrayed as the overly effete stereotype. For the sake of the dollar and to appeal to cross-cultural fetishistic interest to reach a wider audience, he is often shown preferring and seeking out the attentions of white gay men. Writer-director Isaac Julien's LOOKING FOR LANGSTON represents a departure from the status quo of the image of black gay men while also attempting to reclaim the black gay identity and history that only now is beginning to be widely acknowledged by the general black community.

LOOKING FOR LANGSTON can best be describe as impressionistic film-making. The film does not really follow any type of linear storytelling that the average movie viewer will expect. But, far from being intimidating, the film is viewable and can be enjoyed beyond the prejudices of the art house crowd. More, it is touted as being a meditation on the African-American poet Langston Hughes who was understandably a closeted gay man
who preferred emotionally, intellectually, and other the company of other black men, especially those of a handsome and dark complexion, in his love life and work. It has already been documented that Hughes found white men of little sexual interest in life and work. Hughes is also employed as a kind of metaphor in the film to demonstrate the fact that black gay men are able to express love and desire for one another. This challenges the more widespread and universally popular prejudices and stereotyped images already mentioned.

The film is presented in black and white. It opens with a funeral scene and a radio memorial broadcast that aired upon the news that Langston Hughes had died 1967.Read more ›
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British director Isaac Julien's "Looking for Langston" visually beautiful montage in black and white is labeled "A Mediation on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance"-- "it... Read more

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