Cheryl Dunye Interview Clip - Criterion Channel

[@Capgungoesbang]

Watermelon Woman was assigned to watch in a college class of mine, everyone was so excited to discuss it. I loved it.

[@takingitonedayatatime7851]

Same here. Glad I got to watch it. Such a great film.

[@POObumpoopo]

She has a great attitude. I've been trying to watch The Watermelon Woman for years

[@loganunsen1506]

its available on kanopy!

[@BiniMeistert]

i urge u to watch it. its an amazing film!

[@ZackPaslay]

Crossing my fingers for a Blu-ray release of The Watermelon Woman!! 🤞🏻

[@spicyroux2661]

Your wish will be granted soon!

[@lingeringquestions519]

I'm straight, white, cis, and twenty-eight. I turned four in '97, but there's this hope in the film, 90s hope, and I do like when other people get to be in film. There should have been more films like this and other ones about black lesbian women. There should be films like that now.

[@lingeringquestions519]

@Punishedplushv2 I stand by what I said and I'll honestly admit to you that I sometimes feel that real hope for racial healing, like a big form of it, died little by little with people like Dr. King, Vincent Chin, and Latasha Harlins. I think the deaths of people like Matthew Shepard and transgender people too, like Gwen Aruajo, the way mostly white stories get talked about, the suicide stories, the way they were killed and the response to it, also make sexuality and gender identity relations hard too. I'll give an analysis of this because what you said is huge and there is a lot to this. Some people still continue to be in interracial relationships and I think a barrier there is that most people don't really have friends of other races/ethnicities/sexualities/gender identities, but just people they talk to and in some way they would understand the people who are exactly like them are their real friends. That they feel safe liking them because they are so like them, They can't usually do things like someone from the other side can to hurt them. My generation was taught that bullying can cause suicide and then my generation also excuses bullying (some jokes are really not just jokes) when it's someone who is discriminated against in some way going after someone (and it's usually a supportive person and they're a push over, so a target to release anger caused by the hardcore hateful people on, although no one wants that to happen to themselves) from the privileged side. I still have to see how some of those people who justify bullying did not enslave me, did not target me for my race, did not place me in an internment camp, did not lock me in a cage, did not rape me, and even that some people who won't bully others but will still resent me on some level didn't completely jeopardize my safety. They still have to have their rights even if we are not friends. It was actually a big thing that they did not oppress me. Some people go too far, but even my regular bullies have to live. I'm also going to include that some super woke people do excuse too much and sometimes have friends who are very right-wing that they just invest in because they want them to be the person they want them to be but at the cost of others who are really loving or trying. I knew some people (mostly white) who excused, even after calling them out, two white guys they knew who went after me in sexual ways. Also, for sexuality or gender identity, you can just end up with a child/parent/other family members who is not like you. That usually binds you together in an unbreakable way, even when someone disowns someone or runs away to be safe. I'll also say, despite how doom and gloom I am about racial tensions/sexuality and gender tensions, I think that it's a very known thing that we can all find someone to be friends with who is from another group and we can feel very fulfilled by it. That's harder to write off than romance/sex, because it's easy to chalk that up to lust, although that kind of love can be very deep. Sometimes we see how if we were the exact same thing or if there was no tension how we would be, but that's why that kind of love can be very painful. When everything is easy, the feelings may be as strong, but they don't hurt, but feeling that strongly and then having fears and resentment towards someone or loyalty to others that look at the person you care about like that or seeing this in the person you care about can be heartbreaking and all while the love is still there.

[@thokas6406]

im in class right now.

[@thearsdfa]

House!

[@PoetryJesusY2K]

K

[@alexisturner8102]

She's so cool bro

[@nasirvillanueva4943]

Watermelon Woman is such a GREAT FILM!!!!!

[@tinadelia1]

Always inspiring Cheryl Dunye!!!

[@peaceforall1996]

Watermelon Woman is one of my favourite films ever.

[@seanmatyas3938]

I just watched Watermelon Woman last week based on a TCM recommend. While rough in some places it was quite an enjoyable film. Also as a fan of The Wire I was shocked to see Tony Gray (Christopher Mann) show up 😅

[@olivierparent3554]

Why so many disliked the video

[@PoetryJesusY2K]

Probably angry white boys who want an ari aster closet video or some cookie cutter a24 bullshit

[@1232-z4n]

@william hummerick why? :/

[@milanr.kundera5515]

identitarianism is the antithesis of art

[@1232-z4n]

I really want to watch his work!

[@MrVerveverve]

Her depiction of women in American prisons in Stranger Inside (as the director) was pathetic. At the start, you have women being strip searched and showering under the full glare of male guards - obviously totally wrong, a human rights abuse, and something that was indeed happening at that time. Yet they present it as if its totally normal and without making an issue out of it. The women don’t remotely behave like they are experiencing the humiliation and dehumanisation of being forced to be naked in front of male guards. If you are going to make a ‘serious’ film about women in American prisons at that time, at least present the forced nudity in front of male guards as the abuse and injustice that it is, rather than presenting it as if it is totally normal.

[@blorughuners9341]

Another diversity hire, can’t criterion promote talented filmmakers instead of woke principles?

[@Sad_Bumper_Sticker]

Okay Boomer