The Killer of Sheep
Directed by Charles Burnett
5 reasons to watch it!
1- A gritty, grainy slice of everyday. This film is like a time capsule that perfectly captures the details of ordinary life. Yet don’t think that the film feels dated. Thirty years may have passed but much of what Burnett has to say about the African American experience in
2- Yet even without theatrical distribution, Killer of Sheep received the honor of being placed in the prestigious National Film Registry in 1990 by the Library of Congress.
3- This is an art film, a realistic-yet-poetic examination of a time and place and the people stuck there.
4- Charles Burnett’s timeless and poetic Killer of Sheep is one of those ‘found’ films that never should have been lost in the first place
5- “Killer of Sheep” has often been compared to the classics of Italian neo-realism, a comparison born out in the documentary like authenticity of its milieu.
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