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Tongues Untied
Why this pick
Riggs’s urgent, lyrical collage similarly joins Black queer identity, poetry, music and intimate testimony in a formally liberated, deeply personal work.
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MOVIE1989 0h 45m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ben Ellison
Alex
Akim Mogaji
James
John Wilson
Karl
Dublin James
Carlos
Stuart Hall
British voice (voice)
Langston Hughes
Himself (archive footage)