Closet Picks

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.

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, 1968–1978box set, 9 films
6 To Die For Gus Van Sant 1995
7 The Signifyin’ Works of Marlon Riggsbox set, 7 films
8 The BRD Trilogybox set, 3 films
9 The Complete Films of Agnès Vardabox set, 22 films
10 The Watermelon Woman Cheryl Dunye 1996

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