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 ...

Making a spectacle of Charles Burnett for his past work fixes him in the nostalgic amber of racial patronization. Certainly no recent Burnett film has competed in the contemporary Oscar race ...

Charles Burnett is a MacArthur-Award-winning American filmmaker. His major films include *Killer of Sheep*, *The Glass Shield*, *To Sleep with Anger*, *Nightjohn*, *The Wedding*, *The Annihilation of ...

but also sees them united with director Charles Burnett. Once limited to laurels within the independent film community, Burnett's name has been canonized in recent years, after the re-premiere of ...

Charles Burnett KStJ, heraldist. Born: 6 November 1940 in Sandhaven, Aberdeenshire. Died: 23 February 2024, in Edinburgh, aged 83 When Charles Burnett founded the Heraldry Society of Scotland in ...

Lynn Redgrave and James Earl Jones in director Charles Burnett's "The Annihilation of Fish." (Courtesy Kino Lorber and Milestone Films) A lost little piece of film history is about to unspool at ...

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