The Signifyin' Works of Marlon Riggs

 

Year: 1986 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1995

Time: 58 | 55 | 11 | 9 | 80 | 38 | 88 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 1082

Release Date: Tuesday, 22 June 2021

MSRP: $49.95

 

Blu-ray

2 Discs

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English PCM Stereo 2.0

English PCM Stereo 2.0

English PCM Stereo 2.0

English PCM Stereo 2.0

English PCM Stereo 2.0

English PCM Mono 1.0

English PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Region A

 

 Four new programs featuring editor Christiane Badgley; performers Brian Freeman, Reginald T. Jackson, and Bill T. Jones; filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans; poet Jericho Brown; film and media scholar Racquel J. Gates; and sociologist Herman Gray   Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues (1981), Riggs’s graduate thesis film   Introduction to Riggs, recorded in 2020 and featuring filmmakers Vivian Kleiman and Shikeith, and Shikeith, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection   I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996), a documentary by Karen Everett that features interviews with Riggs; Kleiman; filmmaker Isaac Julien; African American studies scholar Barbara Christian; several of Riggs’s longtime friends and collaborators; and members of his family   An essay by film critic K. Austin Collins