Filmed 2024-03-17
Cheryl Dunye
The writer, director, actor and producer
Criterion's own upload · on criterion.com
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.
What they took
10 cases, in the order Criterion lists them. Four are box sets, which is why 10 choices reach 47 films.
Least-picked choice here: A Hollis Frampton Odyssey, taken by nobody else.
Table view
| Chose | Director | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  I Married a Witch | René Clair | 1942 |
| 2 |  A Hollis Frampton Odyssey | Hollis Frampton | · |
| 3 |  Mudbound | Dee Rees | 2017 |
| 4 |  The Cameraman | Edward Sedgwick | 1928 |
| 5 |  Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978 box set, 9 films | · | · |
| 6 |  To Die For | Gus Van Sant | 1995 |
| 7 |  The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggs box set, 7 films | · | · |
| 8 |  The BRD Trilogy box set, 3 films | · | · |
| 9 |  The Complete Films of Agnès Varda box set, 22 films | · | · |
| 10 |  The Watermelon Woman | Cheryl Dunye | 1996 |
United States accounts for six of their six single films. The four box sets are what carry the reach to 47 films.
Closest taste
Jaccard overlap against every other visit, counted on what came off the shelf rather than on films, so a shared box set counts once rather than as the films inside it.
403 visits compared · 31 filmed-together pairs excluded
Their decades
Their five single films with a release year on record, against where every guest's single-film picks land. Box sets are left out of both sides, so the two bars measure the same thing.