Cheryl Dunye was inspired by black filmmakers like Oscar Micheaux, Gordon Parks (Sr. & Jr.) and Melvin Van Peebles, etc. Faye Richards (Lisa Marie Bronson) even looks like an Oscar Micheaux ingenue like Iris Hall or Evelyn Preer. Even the film titles like “Souls of Deceit” sound like Micheaux films
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If you watch “The Early Works of Cheryl Dunye” you’ll see pretty much the entire cast of “The Watermelon Woman” and most of the same locations, as well
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Yeah, sorry, for Camille Paglia being in this. She hadn’t devolved into full on shittiness when this film was made
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Cheryl and Tamara are definitely creating a low key system to maximize the amount of movies they take with with them when this place closes for good
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I’m watching this on Kanopy thanks to having library cards (city, county, city med library, Dallas, Del Rio, TexShare, Chicago, and LA)
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On going train wreck aside you kind of have to admire her confidence
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I think of all the queer comedies “The Watermelon Woman” is the one that I watch the most. It’s a really fun movie with a great story and great characters
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