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Killer of sheep : The Charles Burnett collection.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: MILE00107 | Milestone Film & VideoSeries: Milestone cinemathequePublisher: [Harrington Park, N.J.] : Milestone Film & Video, [1969-2007]Distributor: [New York, N.Y.] : Distributed by New Yorker Video Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 2-disc special editionDescription: 2 videodiscs (332 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded guide (illustrations ; 17 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 9781933920061
  • 1933920068
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.4375 22
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.N4 C53 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Disc 1. Killer of sheep / a Milestone Film release ; a film by Charles Burnett (1977, black & white, 80 minutes) -- Several friends / a film by Charles Burnett ; principal photography by Jim Watkins (1969, black & white, 22 minutes) -- The horse / cameraman, Ian Conner ; a film by Charles Burnett (1972, color, 14 minutes) -- When it rains / directed by Charles Burnett ; story by Charles Burnett ; music by Stephen James Taylor ; La Sept/Arte (1995, color, 13 minutes).
Disc 2. My brother's wedding / a film by Charles Burnett ; editor, Thomas M. Penick ; co-producer, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (original version, 1983, color, 80 minutes) --- My brother's wedding director's cut / a film by Charles Burnett ; editor, Thomas M. Penick ; co-producer, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (2007, color, 118 minutes) -- Quiet as kept / produced by Jon Oh and Charles Burnett ; written, directed, camera, edited by Charles Burnett (2007, color, 5 minutes).
Production credits:
  • Director, Charles Burnett.
Awards:
  • National Film Registry, 1990 (Killer of sheep)
Cast: Killer of sheep: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Jack Drummond.Cast: My brother's wedding: Everette Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Ronald E. Bell, Dennis Kemper.Summary: Killer of sheep: An African-American slaughterhouse worker searches for tiny moments of beauty in his predominantly bleak life.Summary: My brother's wedding: A young African-American man navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD-02145 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050183198

Collective title from disc labels.

Disc menus incorrectly identify the original version of My brother's wedding as the director's cut, and vice versa.

Special features: Disc 1. commentary of Killer of sheep with Charles Burnett and Richard Peña; Cast reunion ; Killer of sheep trailer.

Program notes in container: "Killer of sheep : more than a masterpiece" by Armond White; "Notes from film preservationist Ross Lipman" on the UCLA Film & Television Archive's efforts to preserve the film.

Disc 1. Killer of sheep / a Milestone Film release ; a film by Charles Burnett (1977, black & white, 80 minutes) -- Several friends / a film by Charles Burnett ; principal photography by Jim Watkins (1969, black & white, 22 minutes) -- The horse / cameraman, Ian Conner ; a film by Charles Burnett (1972, color, 14 minutes) -- When it rains / directed by Charles Burnett ; story by Charles Burnett ; music by Stephen James Taylor ; La Sept/Arte (1995, color, 13 minutes).

Disc 2. My brother's wedding / a film by Charles Burnett ; editor, Thomas M. Penick ; co-producer, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (original version, 1983, color, 80 minutes) --- My brother's wedding director's cut / a film by Charles Burnett ; editor, Thomas M. Penick ; co-producer, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (2007, color, 118 minutes) -- Quiet as kept / produced by Jon Oh and Charles Burnett ; written, directed, camera, edited by Charles Burnett (2007, color, 5 minutes).

DVD.

English dialogue; closed-captioned (Killer of sheep).

National Film Registry, 1990 (Killer of sheep)

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