I've been selected to serve on a jury, so I've got to make this quick before I go downtown for the start of the trial.
In case you missed it, Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep has finally been released in theaters--thirty years after it was completed. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has restored the film's original 16mm print into 35mm for a theatrical release. Killer of Sheep is a legendary film, "an object of cinephilic fetishism" as Manohla Dargis puts it. Like a lot of people who have seen the film, I saw it on a murky 16mm print in a college film studies class after hearing a lot about it. I don't remember enough of the film to say anything helpful about it, but I do remember being wowed and a little baffled. I'd never seen anything like it before. Andrew O'Hehir at Salon and Dave Kehr at the New York Times offer more detailed commentary. The film deserves its gushing praise.
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