Cheryl Dunye

“René Clair's I Married a Witch. Now, I have married a witch, my wonder witch, which you know my wife Karina is my partner in my Jingle Town Films company and we just rock and roll together. But she definitely has that magical... In this film is Veronica Lake who I just adore and this film was a pre-Bewitched. If you haven't seen anything with old special effects and just a 1940s feel of sauciness and witchery and comedy, this is great stuff.”

“There's Mudbound here, my gosh. Shout out to the other queers.”

“The Cameraman, look at this. Oh my gosh, early cinema, huh? Buster Keaton and comedy. You know what, I'm just going to add to the bag anyway.”

“One of the more recent adds to their collection is To Die For. All right, I mean, Gus Van Sant.”

“I'm just going to shout out to find myself in the collection. So look, The Watermelon Woman, and I guess I'm really into the collection as well here at Criterion because I love cinema.”

“Another person whose work that I really loved was Hollis Frampton and they have his collection here of his shorter works from '66 to '79. He played with time and speed and just questioned cinema and the totality of it and what it means with representation. This is really something if you want to learn about form, which is very important to learn about how to learn about narrative. Frampton gives you a lot to see here.”

“Chantal Akerman. We know what it means, I know what it means. Jeanne Dielman, which you know is just the tip of the iceberg of what Akerman has done. I mean, I don't want to go through it all but you should, and I'm taking it with me.”

“I was fortunate enough to meet and speak with and be encouraged by Marlon Riggs and they have the Marlon Riggs collection here. When he passed, he left a lot behind and he left most importantly,, his work behind for us and this is a collection of his work and it's always so hard to find. It really is always so hard to find streaming or anywhere and it's here in the collection so, I'm going to take that and I would say you should take that and find it here and add it to your coll...”

“Oh my box sets, don't forget my box sets. My box set of the BRD, Fassbinder, who I mean he was a post-war German young filmmaker with radical ideas. This has Lola, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss in it. So this is a real great special collection of that work and it's a great introduction to German cinema from this time period.”

“Varda is the one I'm here for. All my homages, I'm here for people whose cinema I just can't live without to help me make cinema and continue to make cinema. And this is the box set of Agnès Varda and I'll have everything of Varda. Varda has passed but her work remains alive here and it's in my bag.”