Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 55 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act. The film intercuts footage of Hemphill reciting his poetry, Riggs telling the story of his growing up, scenes of men in social intercourse and dance, and various comic riffs, including a visit to the "Institute of Snap!thology," where men take lessons in how to snap their fingers: the sling snap, the point snap, the diva snap.
- lgbt
- black lgbt
- african american man
The bill
- Willi Ninja — Self
- Kerrigan Black — Self
- Blackberri — Self
- Djola Bernard Branner — Self
- Eddie Murphy — Self (archive footage)
- Directed
- Marlon Riggs
- Written
- Donald Woods, Joseph Beam, Marlon Riggs, Alan Miller, Reginald Jackson, Essex Hemphill & 2 more
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 62 ratings
- Studio
- Signifyin' Works
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
