Charles Stewart: "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." Elaine Stewart: "The Watermelon Woman" is a "classic" of "New Queer Cinema." "Gays & lesbians" and "people of color" are hot items in left/liberal culture nowadays, so perhaps this movie merits preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, but I doubt it. A young filmmaker (Cheryl Dunye) researches the career and personal life of a very obscure 1930s actress/singer. So?
Review of The Watermelon Woman
