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Information
- Year
- 1989
- Runtime
- 55 min.
- Director
- Marlon Riggs
- Genre
- Documentary
- Rating *
- 6.6
- Votes *
- 690
- Checks
- 782
- Favs
- 42
- Dislikes
- 22
- Favs/checks
- 5.4% (1:19)
- Favs/dislikes
- 2:1
Top comments
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Panunzio
Essay films rarely get better than this one. A series of highly personal stories detailing young black homosexual men's experiences growing up, and in living during the AIDS epidemic. The stories are compelling, as is the poetry. There are some brilliant montages here as well.
I really need to check out more of Marlon Riggs' work. 2 years 7 months ago -
Dimitris Psachos Springer
Thank Internet Archive for providing this slam-poetry-visual-essay pearl for free!
(mod edit: dead link removed) 5 years 7 months ago
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This movie ranks #22 in Slate's The Black Film Canon
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This movie ranks #63 in BFI Flare's The Best LGBTQ+ Films of All Time
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This movie ranks #91 in BFI's 100 American Independent Films
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This movie ranks #97 in Harvard's Suggested Film Viewing: Non-Fiction Films
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This movie ranks #101 in BFI's 100 Documentary Films
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This movie ranks #143 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Documentaries of All Time
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This movie ranks #406 in Sight & Sound's The Greatest Films of All Time
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This movie ranks #810 in 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die
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This movie ranks #902 in Library of Congress's National Film Registry
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This movie ranks #920 in TSPDT's 1,000 Greatest Films
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This movie ranks #1314 in The Criterion Collection
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