Killer of sheep : The Charles Burnett collection. - 2-disc special edition. - 2 videodiscs (332 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded guide (illustrations ; 17 cm) - Milestone cinematheque . - Milestone cinematheque. .

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).

Director, Charles Burnett. Director, Charles Burnett.

Killer of sheep: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry, Jack Drummond. My brother's wedding: Everette Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, Ronald E. Bell, Dennis Kemper.

Killer of sheep: An African-American slaughterhouse worker searches for tiny moments of beauty in his predominantly bleak life. My brother's wedding: A young African-American man navigates his conflicting obligations while trying to figure out what he really wants in life.


DVD.


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

National Film Registry, 1990 (Killer of sheep)

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African American families--California--Los Angeles--Drama.
African Americans--Social conditions--California--Los Angeles--Drama.
African Americans--Economic conditions--California--Los Angeles--Drama.
Hurricane Katrina, 2005--Social aspects--Drama.
African American families.
African Americans--Economic conditions.
African Americans--Social conditions.
Social aspects.


California--Los Angeles.


Feature films.
Feature films.
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Feature films.
Short films.
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PN1995.9.N4 / C53 2007

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