With the recent release of his missing romance, The Annihilation of Fish, and two films in pre-production, veteran filmmaker Charles Burnett is undergoing something of a revival. A major element of that newfound popularity is the recent restoration by Criterion of his debut, 1978’s Killer of Sheep. Restored, and finally with the tangle of music rights cleared, catch this masterpiece of 1970s Black cinema as it brings Italian Neorealist techniques to the streets of Burnett’s adopted home of Watts. – Richard Whittaker
June 12, 14 & 16