Container of (work) : Ethnic notions (Motion picture). Container of (work) : Tongues untied (Motion picture). Container of (work) : Affirmations (Motion picture : 1990). Container of (work) : Anthem (Motion picture : 1991). Container of (work) : Color adjustment (Motion picture). Container of (work) : Non, je ne regrette rien (Motion picture). Container of (work) : Black is, Black ain't (Motion picture). Container of (work) : I shall not be removed (Motion picture). Container of (work) : Long train running (Motion picture)
Notes:
Essex Hemphill, Reginald T. Jackson, Blackberri, Angela Davis, Brian Freeman, Jericho Brown. Originally released as motion pictures in 1986-1995. Full screen 1.33:1. Full program credits and essay by critic K. Austin Collins in container. Features: four new programs featuring editor Christiane Badgley; performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackon, and Bill T. Jones; filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans; poet Jericho Brown; film and media scholar Racquel Gates; and sociologist Herman Gray; excerpts from a 1992 interview with director Marlon Riggs; brief inroductions by Riggs to Tongues untied and Color adjustment; "Long train running : the story of the Oakland blues", Riggs' University of California, Berkeley graduate thesis film; "I shall not be removed : the life of Marlon Riggs", a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman; filmmaker Isaac Julien; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian; several of Riggs's longtime friends and collaborators; and members of his family.
Contents:
Disc 1: Ethnic notions (1986) ; Tongues untied (1989) ; Affirmations (1990) ; Anthem (1991) -- Disc 2: Color adjustment (1992) ; Non, je ne regrette rien = No regret (1993) ; Black is... black ain't (1995) -- Disc 3 : Supplements.
Summary:
A collection of documentary films directed by Marlon Riggs which discuss the experiences of black homosexual men living in the United States in the late twentieth century.
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