Cheryl Dunye
March 2024
The writer, director, actor, and producer shares what Marlon Riggs’s work means to her as a Black queer filmmaker, praises Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s radical approach to melodrama, and spotlights Chantal Akerman, Agnès Varda, and other directors whose work she can’t live without.
10 picks
Picks (10)
I Married a Witch
René Clair
1942 • United States • 1h 17m
A Hollis Frampton Odyssey
Hollis Frampton
United States
Unavailable
Mudbound
Dee Rees
2017 • United States • 2h 15m
Unavailable
The Cameraman
Edward Sedgwick
1928 • United States • 1h 14m
Unavailable
Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978
Box Set
To Die For
Gus Van Sant
1995 • United States • 1h 46m
Unavailable
The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs
Box Set
The BRD Trilogy
Box Set
The Complete Films of Agnès Varda
Box Set
The Watermelon Woman
Cheryl Dunye
1996 • United States • 1h 25m