Charles Burnett’s
KILLER OF SHEEP
Friday, April 18 – Thursday, April 24
NEW 4K RESTORATION
U.S., 1977
Directed by Charles Burnett
With Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy
Approx. 80 min. DCP.
“A hardworking, poorly paid man (Henry G. Sanders) — a father and husband — has fallen into melancholia; the simplest tasks in his life are fraught with difficulty. The affectingly beautiful scenes include children playing in the nooks and crannies of buildings and a heartbreaking moment of thwarted romance, when the hero refuses to respond to the fervent embraces of his wife as they dance to Dinah Washington’s ‘This Bitter Earth.’” – David Denby, The New Yorker
KILLER OF SHEEP has been digitally restored to 4K and remastered by UCLA Film & Television Archive, Milestone Films, and the Criterion Collection.
A KINO LORBER / MILESTONE FILMS RELEASE
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Reviews
“AN AMERICAN MASTERPIECE, INDEPENDENT TO THE BONE.”
– Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
“ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING DEBUTS IN MOVIE HISTORY.”
– Terrence Rafferty
“A milestone of eloquent understatement capturing the daily life of have-nots as few American movies have.”
– Wesley Morris
“Burnett regards faces, lives, children, friends, neighbors, in a loosely strung-together series of episodes that don’t add up to much, while they somehow add up to everything. His black-and-white images and deliberate editing create a sense of serene resignation; this is how it is, and ever shall be.”
– Roger Ebert