Closet Picks

8 Oct 2024

Zeinabu irene Davis’s Closet Picks

The director of Compensation shares what Bruce Lee’s films taught her about cinematic movement, praises Sarah Maldoror’s revolutionary Sambizanga, and shouts out filmmakers she loves, from Cauleen Smith and Cheryl Dunye to Alice Diop and Ousmane Sembène.

Choices
8
Single films
5
Box sets
3
Chose Director Year
1 Black Orpheus Marcel Camus 1959
2 Bruce Lee: His Greatest Hitsbox set, 5 films
3 The Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo 1966
4 Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 4box set, 6 films
5 Drylongso Cauleen Smith 1998
6 The Watermelon Woman Cheryl Dunye 1996
7 Saint Omer Alice Diop 2022
8 Three Revolutionary Films by Ousmane Sembènebox set, 3 films

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