#looking for Langston

[gael-garcia]

TOP FIRST-TIME WATCHES OF 2024 tagged by @hayaomiyazaki thank you<3

Rules: Post 9 of your favorite films you saw for the first time this year that are not new (2023/2024) but are new to you, and tag 9 others to do the same.

I broke the rules I'm sorry this is 12

That Day, On the Beach (1983 🇹🇼), dir. Edward Yang Barber's Tales (2013 🇵🇭), dir. Jun Lana Leila and the Wolves (1984 🇱🇧🇵🇸), dir. Heiny Srour Looking for Langston (1989 🇬🇧), dir. Isaac Julien There Is No Evil (2020 🇮🇷), dir. Mohammad Rasoulof They Do Not Exist (1974 🇵🇸), dir. Mustafa Abu Ali Tokyo Godfathers (2003 🇯🇵), dir. Satoshi Kon No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2022), dir. Alain Ughetto Jefferson Circus Songs (1974), dir. Suzan Pitt Winter Kept Us Warm (1965 🇨🇦), dir. David Secter Cleaners (2019 🇵🇭), dir. Glenn Barit The White Meadows (2009 🇮🇷), dir. Mohammad Rasoulof

tagging @igneousbody @ourlittlesister2015 @natalia-lafourcade @nonbinarybriarmoss @lesbiancolumbo @sarazanmai @albertserra @chutiyaaa @illgiveyouahint @isabelleadjani @cooperhoward @muozu @farminglesbian @lady-arryn @moonlight

[ms-cornucopia]

Pas De Deux No.2 from the Looking For Langston Series, 1989/2016 by Isaac Julien

[the-lilac-grove]

Looking for Langston, directed by Isaac Julien

[notchainedtotrauma]

Rather than assuming an accessible gay identity that is coherent and recognizable over time, Isaac Julien's emphasis on "looking" produces a queer Harlem Renaissance as a present desire in a moment of danger.

from Queer Times, Black Futures by Kara Keeling

[zeozeozeo]

Isaac Julien's "Looking for Langston" (1989) at Tate Britain, as part of 'What Freedom is to me' (2023)

[arte-e-homoerotismo]

O filme "Looking for Langston" (1989) de Isaac Julien (re)imagina as façanhas gays de Langston Hughes. O fantasma do poeta assombra um bar gay/speakeasy dos anos 1920 ao lado do espectro de James Baldwin, as vozes de Toni Morrison e Stuart Hall, recriações de fotos de George Platt Lynes e ícones queer do Renascimento do Harlem, enquanto anjos twink — e a sombra da crise da AIDS — vigiam tudo.

The film "Looking for Langston" (1989) by Isaac Julien (re)imagines Langston Hughes' gay exploits. The poet's ghost haunts a 1920s speakeasy/gay bar alongside the spectre of James Baldwin, the voices of Toni Morrison and Stuart Hall, recreations of photos by George Platt Lynes, and queer icons of the Harlem Renaissance, while twink angels-and the shadow of the AIDS crisis-watch over it all.

[krossota]

chief

[pinescent-and-gingerbread]

// Intertwined, sewn together - Not a lot, just forever //

(some random drawings put together of my OC Polly and Arthur. I'm just going to draw them until I finally have the time to properly write Red Adagio -the long fic about their story!)

(also it still feels a bit weird posting OC stuff. I always feel like nobody is going to give sh*t lmao, but I have fun drawing them. Will definitely post more content when I'll have some time off again!)

[div-divington]

Been binge watching X-Files recently and I've always wanted to make a fake Altered Item file cuz it seemed fun

It was fun.

[gael-garcia]

Best First Watches in November 2024 (had to make it 6 for photoset reasons 😛)

Leila and the Wolves (1984, Hreiny Srour)

Looking for Langston (1989, Isaac Julien)

No Other Land (2024, Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor)

Winter Kept Us Warm (1965, David Secter)

All We Imagine As Light (2024, Payal Kapadia)

Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024, Johan Grimonprez)

tagged by @hayaomiyazaki, tagging @igneousbody @milflover3000 @lesbiancolumbo @albertserra @chutiyaaa @farminglesbian @isabelleadjani @amarakaran !!

[velvetjune]

“Things change when you become Director. You suddenly see this dark void for the horror show it truly is, filled with screaming fear we pretend to control.” — Zachariah Trench (Control)

[utilitycaster]

Queueing to make it clear this isn't a one-time thing or vagueing a specific person and more an irritating trend, but: if you have speculation or a personal wish for a story, that is always totally cool and you can and should post about it to your heart's content but it is pretty irritating to post it on other people's theory posts unless you can construct a logical argument and relate it back to their theory.

You want to see a guest character return? Okay, pitch me how this is related to my post, and why it would make particular sense within the story. You think a ship is going to happen? Great, say something other than "Um, I have eyes" on my post if you want to reply to me. You think this campaign is going to go on until level 20? Do you have an argument other than "I want it to?" Then give it, otherwise this would really be better suited to you making your own post.

You don't need an argument in your own post! I think it's wise to have one if you have any interest in convincing other people (and indeed, I tend to find that if there's a lot of MAN WOULDN'T IT BE COOL evidence- and argument-free posts in the tag for something I wasn't already inclined to like, it will make me feel more unfavorable towards it), but if you're posting for yourself and not to make a point you can and should just say what you want! You do need one when you're shoving it onto mine though because now I'm going to get all the people responding to you and I don't want them. Also when people do this and I don't care for their theory I tend to hide the reblog, or I just make the post nonrebloggable if it takes off and I'm sufficiently annoyed, and now no one can see or respond to the theory because they didn't write your own post and I'm in control! Writing your own posts is great! Please, if you are not directly responding to the content of an original post but rather going off on your own tangent, make your own post instead of getting on theirs.

[roughridingrednecks]

Langston

[alternativeproject]

This is like when kids start being rude to you because they feel comfortable around you.

[mondopazzo]

Adding this to the watchlist asap.

The film "Looking for Langston" (1989) by Isaac Julien (re)imagines Langston Hughes' gay exploits. The poet's ghost haunts a 1920s speakeasy/gay bar alongside the spectre of James Baldwin, the voices of Toni Morrison and Stuart Hall, recreations of photos by George Platt Lynes, and queer icons of the Harlem Renaissance, while twink angels-and the shadow of the AIDS crisis-watch over it all.