NEW YORK — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century.

Charles Burnett’s gently astonishing movie tells the stories of the people he knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts ...

The tender comforts and unspoken disappointments of marriage are captured on screen with remarkable understatement in Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” (1977), a film soon to be undergoing a revival ...