In Our DVD Section: KILLER OF SHEEP

In 2007, thirty years after its completion, filmmaker Charles Burnett's masterpiece, Killer of Sheep, was finally released for public distribution. Shot in B&W for less than $10,000, Burnett's bleak portrayal of one African-American man's working class life in the Watts district of Los Angeles drew comparisons to Italian directors such as Fellini and Rossellini and was named by Time magazine as one of the ten best films of 2007. Its appearance at the 2007 Atlanta Film Festival (as part of a Charles Burnett retrospective) drew enormous crowds and praise; since then, the film has been named one of the 100 essential films of all time by the National Society of Film Critics and was among the first fifty films to be inducted into the Library of Congress' National Film Registry.

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