Charles Burnett (director)
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Charles Burnett (April 13, 1944, Vicksburg, Mississippi) is a MacArthur Award-winning American filmmaker, educated at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Burnett's style is rarely violent and his most original work concentrates on the lives of the African American middle class. His first feature, Killer of Sheep (1977), was made while he was a graduate student at UCLA. Though it was never given a wide release at the time and remained hard-to-come-by through subsequent decades (because of its unauthorized use of music in the soundtrack), it became a touchstone film in American cinema; it has been declared a national treasure by the Library of Congress and was among the first 50 films placed on the US National Registry.[1] In 2007 the soundtrack rights were at last cleared and the film was given a belated wide release.
Burnett's style is rarely violent and his most original work concentrates on the lives of the African American middle class. His first feature, Killer of Sheep (1977), was made while he was a graduate student at UCLA. Though it was never given a wide release at the time and remained hard-to-come-by through subsequent decades (because of its unauthorized use of music in the soundtrack), it became a touchstone film in American cinema; it has been declared a national treasure by the Library of Congress and was among the first 50 films placed on the US National Registry.[1] In 2007 the soundtrack rights were at last cleared and the film was given a belated wide release.
Filmography
- Several Friends (short, 1969)
- The Horse (short, 1973)
- Killer of Sheep (1977)
- My Brother's Wedding (1983)
- To Sleep with Anger (1990)
- America Becoming (1991)
- The Glass Shield (1994)
- When It Rains (short, 1995)
- Nightjohn (TV, 1996)
- The Wedding (TV, 1998)
- Dr. Endesha Ida Mae Holland (short, 1998)
- Selma, Lord, Selma (TV, 1999)
- Olivia's Story (short, 2000)
- The Annihilation of Fish (1999)
- Finding Buck McHenry (TV, 2000)
- (2003)
- For Reel? (TV, 2003)
- The Blues: Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)
- (2007)
- ''Red Soil (2008)
Bibliography
- Massood, Paula J., "An Aesthetic Appropriate to Conditions: Killer of Sheep, (Neo)Realism, and the Documentary Impulse", Wide Angle - Volume 21, Number 4, October 1999, pp. 20-41
- Why We Make Movies: Black Filmmakers Talk about the Magic of Cinema, ed. by George Alexander, Janet Hill, New York : Harlem Moon, 2003.
References
External links
- Charles Burnett at the Internet Movie Database
- Interviews with Charles Burnett
- http://www.annihilationoffish.com/pages/makers/burnett.html
- Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
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Aerial view of Vicksburg Harbor
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All Movie Guide profile
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Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It stars Henry G.
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Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It stars Henry G.
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Collection size 30,011,749 Books (130,000,000 Total Items)
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Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It stars Henry G.
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All Movie Guide profile
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Killer of Sheep is a 1977 American film written, directed, produced and shot by Charles Burnett. It stars Henry G.
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To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 drama film directed and written by Charles Burnett.
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To Sleep with Anger is a 1990 drama film directed and written by Charles Burnett.
Cast
- Danny Glover as Harry
- Paul Butler as Gideon
- DeVaughn Nixon as Sunny
- Mary Alice as Suzie
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The Glass Shield is a 1995 crime drama film starring Ice Cube, Michael Boatman and Lori Petty, directed by Charles Burnett.
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The Glass Shield is a 1995 crime drama film starring Ice Cube, Michael Boatman and Lori Petty, directed by Charles Burnett.
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Star Trek: DS9 episode
"When It Rains..."
Episode no. 169
Prod. code 571
Airdate May 5, 1999
Writer(s) Rene Echevarria
Spike Steingasser
Director Michael Dorn
Guest star(s) Marc Alaimo as Dukat
Casey Biggs as Damar
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"When It Rains..."
Episode no. 169
Prod. code 571
Airdate May 5, 1999
Writer(s) Rene Echevarria
Spike Steingasser
Director Michael Dorn
Guest star(s) Marc Alaimo as Dukat
Casey Biggs as Damar
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The Wedding is a 1998 television miniseries directed by Charles Burnett. Based on a novel by Dorothy West, it stars Halle Berry, Eric Thal, and Lynn Whitfield, and was produced by Harpo Productions.
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The Wedding is a 1998 television miniseries directed by Charles Burnett. Based on a novel by Dorothy West, it stars Halle Berry, Eric Thal, and Lynn Whitfield, and was produced by Harpo Productions.
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The Blues is a 2003 documentary film series produced by Martin Scorsese, dedicated to the history of blues music. In each of the seven episodes, a different director explores a stage in the development of the blues.
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Wide Angle (1999) is the debut studio album by British breakbeat trance producers Hybrid, and was re-released in 2000 as a double-CD edition entitled Wider Angle.
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