17 Mar 2024
Cheryl Dunye’s Closet Picks
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.
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- Choices
- 10
- Single films
- 6
- Box sets
- 4
| 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 |