Over on Filmjourney, Doug Cummings comments on a recent screening of Charles Burnett's landmark independent film Killer of Sheep, which was recently restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and should get a DVD release by the end of the year. Doug says: "As for the film, it deserves every bit of the acclaim it has received as one of the few authentic, sensitive, and complex portraits of inner city black community. In some ways, it reminded me of the semi-autobiographical works of Terence Davies, the British filmmaker whose emotional memory films are constructed as dramatic vignettes layered with evocative music from the era, rather than traditional storytelling."
For further reading, here's an interview with Burnett, from Senses of Cinema.
For further reading, here's an interview with Burnett, from Senses of Cinema.
| :: posted by Donald Melanson, 5/04/2005 | Comments (0) Links to this post |
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