Chicagoist: The Best Movie You've Never Seen

Rob Christopher

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:21:25 -0600

Guest #4: Actually I wrote this post on Saturday. It just didn't go live on the site until today. Ebert does have an excellent review (which I should have linked to) but I didn't steal from him. Those are simply facts about the production of the film that are quoted in numerous places.

guest

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:10:35 -0600

Charles Burnett wrote and directed the film as his thesis for UCLA. It was shot in 16mm black & white over a series of weekends for less than $10,000 and only sporadically shown afterwards, since music rights for the songs Burnett chose for the soundtrack (including Paul Robeson, Louis Armstrong and Earth, Wind and Fire) were prohibitively expensive. Nice job paraphrasing from Ebert's review yesterday without attribution.

Ferdy

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:24:30 -0600

I love To Sleep with Anger. It's so funny and sly.

Chuck Sudo

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:47:47 -0600

Oxford American Magazine ran a wonderfully written profile of Burnett and the mystique of Killer of Sheep in its recent Southern Movie Issue. I'll be glad to finally get a chance to watch this film. Burnett also directed the underrated To Sleep With Anger, which features one of Danny Glover's greatest performances and also worth viewing.

guest

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:41:17 -0600

uh, no thanks.