#1082f: RIGGS, Marlon: Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) (1993)

RIGGS, Marlon (United States)
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret) (1993)
Spine #1082f
Blu-ray




Director/Writer

Marlon Riggs was 36 when he directed Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret).

Through music, poetry, and courageous self-disclosure, five HIV-positive gay Black men (among them poet and performance artist Assotto Saint) discuss their individual confrontations with AIDS, illuminating their journeys through the fear, shame, and stigma that accompanied the disease at the height of the epidemic toward healing, acceptance, and truth. In Je Ne Regrette Rien (No Regret), director Marlon Riggs tells stories of self-transformation in which a once unmentionable "affliction" is forged into a tool of personal and communal empowerment.

38 minutes
Color
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2021
The Extras

The Booklet

Forty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by film critic K. Austin Collins.

Commentary

None.

Four programs

Featuring filmmaker and editor Christiane Badgley: performers Brian FreemanReginald T. Jackson, and Bill T. Jones: filmmakers Cheryl Dunye and Rodney Evans: poet Jericho Brown: film and media scholar Racquel Gates: and sociologist Herman Gray.

Excerpts

From a 1992 interview with director Riggs.

Brief introductions

By Riggs to Tongues United and Color Adjustment.

Long Train Running: The Story of the Oakland Blues (1981)

Riggs’s graduate thesis film.

Introduction

To Riggs from 2020 featuring filmmakers Vivian Kleiman and Shikeith, and Ashley Clark, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection.

I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (1996)

A documentary by Karen Everett.

Extras Rating (0-40):

39

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