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    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

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    Date: 13 Jun 2015 15:36:00
    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]
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    Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (1969-2007)
    2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:20:18 | 7,06 Gb + 8,00 Gb
    Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English SDH
    Genre: Drama

    The first feature film from acclaimed independent African American filmmaker Charles Burnett, this intensely emotional drama concerns a man who makes his living at a slaughterhouse as he struggles for economic and emotional survival and tries to patch up his often strained relationship with his family. Shot on weekends over a period of several years and first shown publicly in 1977, Killer of Sheep slowly but surely began to develop a potent reputation among film enthusiasts; in 1981, it won honors at the Berlin International Film Festival and an enthusiastic reception at the Sundance Film Festival. It was added to the Library of Congress' National Film Registry in 1990.

    Killer of Sheep (1981) - IMDB | Wikipedia
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    While still a film student at UCLA, Charles Burnett made Killer of Sheep about the kinds of lives he observed in his youth. The film tells the story of a family living in poverty in an L.A. ghetto. Rather than a traditional plotline, Burnett's film is structured like the lives of his characters: it picks up on something, gets going, and just when it seems to be heading toward a climax, collapses. We follow the characters from failure to failure, from efforts toward family and income to impotence and frustration. Burnett is aware that the freedoms an audience typically relates to on the screen – the trajectories of a film's various characters – are just as typically only available to people who can afford those freedoms. Poverty, he suggests, deserves a different plot structure. Killer of Sheep can be placed modestly alongside the films of other, more strictly modernist directors, particularly Michelangelo Antonioni or Abbas Kiarostami, who also have found classical narrative constructions inadequate. Killer of Sheep is highly poetic, offering metaphor, lyricism, and sensual symbolic order, and seeks to illuminate lives through a tender visual style. Though it is about poverty and isolation, rather than collapsing into a nightmare of total alienation (as might an Antonioni film), Killer of Sheep balances the despair it contains with humor and warmth.
    Putnam Trumbull, Rovi
    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    Around the seventies, when films like Annie Hall, Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Saturday Night Fever ruled the age, Charles Burnett silently crafted Killer of Sheep, his thesis film for UCLA. Thirty years it has eluded us—that is, until now. The result, although aging those thirty-years, is a masterpiece; an authentic and one of a kind piece of raw American poetry that simply and silently observes life in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    An unshakable and insightful study of citizens living right above the poverty level, Killer of Sheep is both open-ended and observatory. The magnificent fly-on-the-wall observes the life of a slaughterhouse worker, Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), who grapples daily with poverty, misbehaving children, and the allure of violence. Stan is a simple guy, diligent, smart, and fatigued. He has a family including two kids, both entirely the opposite of the other. Stan's daughter (Angela Burnett, the director's child—one of the most preternaturally talented performers I have ever seen) is the playful and learning type, while the other—his son—is never home, discourteous, and always getting himself into trouble. The characterization in Killer of Sheep is both extraordinarily untouched, but it is meticulously observed and felt; every single character—although not all are important—has an underlying purpose and reason for being where they are.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    The camera work in Killer of Sheep, much like the film itself, is perfect, like if one could be observing the town through his/her DV camcorder. Shooting in 16 millimeter and operating it himself, Burnett's camera observes everything, and is seemingly everywhere. Everything is important too, because every close-up and tracking shot only brings us closer to the undistinguished characters themselves; the more the camera observes, the more one feels closer to them.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    Burnett shot Killer of Sheep over a series of weekends on a shoestring budget of just under $20,000, using friends and relatives as actors. This needn't be a reason to demean the film; if anything, one must take it as a sheer pleasure: the acting of his family members essentially makes the film beautiful sans outside reason, making it truly fathomable. Yet again, Burnett's camera simply observes; much like the Italian neo-realism age, Killer of Sheep's milieu speaks for itself—one could even call it American neo-realism.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    At its core, Killer of Sheep is masterfully comprised of evident economic denial, hidden desire, and pure living; in other words: untainted life. There are many scenes in Killer of Sheep that demonstrate this; the most memorable demonstrating the cruelty of Stan's son towards his sister: while Stan drinks coffee at his table with a neighbor, his son aggressively asks his daughter where his bee-bee gun is. The daughter, wearing an unforgettable dog mask, shrugs. The response from the brother is, of course, hurting her. Stan gets up and starts chasing the son; he's already out the door.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    In 1990, Burnett's opus magnum was declared a national treasure by Congress. 17 years later, it has finally gotten a spot on the big screen, a DVD release date also due for later in the year. Easily one of the finest observational films ever made, Killer of Sheep more than lives up to its official designation as a national treasure: it lives up to life itself.
    IMDB Reviewer
    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    “If [Killer of Sheep] were an Italian film from 1953, we would have every scene memorized,” Michael Tolkin once said. Yet rather than basking in instant name recognition, Burnett’s masterpiece is only now receiving a proper theatrical release. Coming right after the blaxploitation craze of the early to mid-’70s and more than a decade before the in-the-’hood phase of the early ’90s, Killer of Sheep explores what it means to be a man, a woman, a child just barely eking out a marginally comfortable existence. Stan (Sanders), the increasingly beleaguered paterfamilias who toils in an abattoir, finds fleeting pleasure in dancing with his wife (Moore) before pulling away, or in the caress of his young daughter (Angela Burnett, the director’s child—one of the most preternaturally talented performers I have ever seen). Almost every scene is accompanied by a song that deeply enhances its resonance: Stan’s daughter sings along joyously off-key to Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Reasons”; Dinah Washington’s “This Bitter Earth” plays during the aforementioned dance and as Stan hoses down sheep entrails. “Today you’re young / Too soon you’re old,” goes the latter tune - a sentiment perfectly realized in Burnett’s perfect film.
    Melissa Anderson, TimeOut New York
    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    For an unseen film, "Killer of Sheep" has had a lot of attention. It won the Critics' Prize at Berlin, was one of the first 50 titles on the Library of Congress list of American films worthy of permanent preservation, and Burnett is "not only the most important African-American director but one of the most distinctive filmmakers this country has ever produced" (Andrew O'Hehir, Salon), and the film deserves "a secure place not only as the greatest achievement in African-American cinema but also as one of the great achievements in cinema, period" (Jeffrey M. Anderson, Cinematical). David Gordon Green names the film as an influence on his own brilliant first feature, "George Washington"; indeed, in homage, he has a kid wearing a Halloween mask.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    Charles Burnett was born in 1944 in Mississippi, raised in Watts, may have learned a lot of things at UCLA but not how to film money-makers. Among his other titles are "The Glass Shield" (1994) and "To Sleep with Anger" (1990) and a lot of TV and documentary work; he made "The Wedding" (1998) for TV, with Oprah Winfrey producing and Halle Berry starring.

    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    What he captures above all in "Killer of Sheep" is the deadening ennui of hot, empty summer days, the dusty passage of time when windows and screen doors stood open, and the way the breathless day crawls past. And he pays attention to the heroic efforts of this man and wife to make a good home for their children. Poverty in the ghetto is not the guns and drugs we see on TV. It is more often like life in this movie: Good, honest, hard-working people trying to get by, keep up their hopes, love their children and get a little sleep.
    Excerpt from Rober Ebert's Review
    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    Themes of class, poverty, masculinity and machismo all feature prominently – and their dead-end nature is pointedly conveyed (the throwaway line “All that work for nothing” feels like a key summation) – but Killer of Sheep never romanticises or embraces them, or perhaps even offers alternatives. The method is more to observe than it is to explore, and this is why it is essential that things remain essentially plotless. We simply watch Stan, the slaughterhouse worker of the title, as he interacts with his family and the community at large. But it’s enough, more than enough in fact.
    Excerpt from Anthony Nield's Review on Home Cinema
    Killer of Sheep (1978) + My Brother's Wedding (1983) [Re-UP]

    Special Features:
    Disc 1:
    - The film: Killer of Sheep (1979)
    - Short films by Charles Burnett: Several Friends (1969), The Horse (1973) and When It Rains (1995)
    - Cast reunion
    - Killer of Sheep trailer
    - Commentary with Charles Burnett and Richard Peña

    Disc 2.1983:
    - My Brother's Wedding: 1983 Original Version (01:57:52) and 2007 Director's Cut (01:20:33)
    - Burnett's latest short film, Quiet as Kept (2007) about a family displaced by Hurricane Katrina (05:24, IMDB)
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