Over the years, the director’s early films have been lost and found, forgotten and celebrated. But what about the work that came after, or that never came to be?

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for ...

Charles Burnett's gently astonishing movie tells the stories of the people he knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the 1970s. It's at the Gene Siskel Film Center for a weeklong run.

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 82, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm… ...

NEW YORK – Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century.. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less ...

NEW YORK -- Charles Burnett has been living with "Killer of Sheep" for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot "Killer of Sheep" on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less than $10,000.

NEW YORK – Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century.. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less ...