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Killer of Sheep: The Charles Burnett Collection (2009)

Henry Gayle Sanders , Kaycee Moore , Charles Burnett  |  NR |  DVD
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Henry Gayle Sanders, Kaycee Moore
  • Directors: Charles Burnett
  • Format: Black & White, NTSC, Full Screen
  • Language: English
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: NR (Not Rated)
  • Studio: New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
  • DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000VEA3MU
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,168 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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43 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Finally..., October 27, 2007
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Emerging from the shadows a sort of film urban legend is Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep, made in 1977 as his UCLA graduate thesis and finally given wide release thanks to film preservationists and Steven Soderbergh. For years I've had to listen to how great this film was without actually experiencing it for myself and now... let's just say I've only had the occasion three or four times to see a movie and realize that the director was put on earth specifically to make that film. An ethnographic study of life in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles, Burnett's movie takes the best element of Renoir's romantic abstractions, Rossellini's neorealist cityscapes, Satyajit Ray's family dramas, Kenneth Anger's thematically and musically-linked visuals and Cassavetes' naked 16mm textures and mixes them into a sad and funny visual essay. Artistic camerawork and lighting, disorienting editing, the employment of nonprofessional but striking actors and virtuoso use of pop music confine Burnett's approach to no one recognizable style: instead, they form an audacious and wholly original aesthetic. Made up largely of a collection of entropic events from the neighborhood with supporting characters who comes and go, the film is sparse on dialogue, but Burnett speaks through the mise en scene in unique moments of narrative spontaneity. While the tone moves ambiguously between tender and bittersweet, social and isolated, frivolous and crushing, the overall feel of the film is simply vitalizing. Even through the grimness of its shots of tiny lambs moving to the voice of Dinah Washington, oblivious to their impending slaughter, Burnett discovers a transcendent beauty. Everyone owes it to himself to see it.
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27 of 30 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Unforgettable movie., September 21, 2007
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I saw this film a few months ago when it was shown for a weekend here in St. Louis. It is a masterpiece and truly unforgettable. No wonder the Library of Congress picked it as one of the top 25 movies in all of American film history. The scene with the couple dancing to Dinah Washington's, "This Bitter Earth", will haunt you for days after seeing the film.
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34 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Great Film(s)...Inconsiderate Packaging, December 5, 2007
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This is a review of the poorly-designed packaging of the great film "Killer of Sheep" only. Other reviewers have discussed the merits of this brilliant film and the unfortunately-neglected accompanying feature, "My Brother's Wedding".

Like the poor recent edition of "I Am Cuba", Milestone has released good-quality transfers of these significant and previously-unavailable films but shown them no respect by packaging in a way which compromise the DVD's themselves.

The DVD's are stuck into, truly, the tightest pouches(!) of a cardboard DVD case. Not only were the DVD's slid in once by the manufacturer--scratching the playing surfaces--but you must pull them out with some effort from the too-tight pouches to view them, thus scratching them again. For the price of this product, a standard plastic (double) snapcase would be reasonable to expect and much more secure storage.

Unfortunately, this is the only way to purchase "Killer of Sheep". I suggest pulling out the DVD's carefully and then placing them in another DVD case to prevent further desecration with subsequent viewings.
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