22 Apr 10 The Greatest Films
The Greatest Films
Long heralded as one of the greatest ‘unseen’ works of American cinema, Charles Burnett’s 1977 independent film, Killer of Sheep , was screened at festivals in Europe and even entered into the Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, but never theatrically released in the U.S. The film languished in semi-obscurity for several reasons: No distributor would touch a downbeat B&W art film about …
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