Film Details
Featuring a pre-recorded introduction by the film's director, Charles Burnett. Burnett’s deeply humanist follow-up to Killer of Sheep centres on the young and proudly working-class Pierce Mundy (Everett Silas) caught between family expectations and loyalty to a friend, providing an intimate window into early ’80s South Central LA; also a compassionate, humanist counterpoint to the “hood” films that would follow. The film was originally released in a rough-cut form in 1983, and notoriously difficult to find until its first restoration and re-edit by Burnett in 2007. This latest restoration continues the effort to honour Burnett's artistic vision. A new 4K restoration by Prasab lab (Chennai) including frame-by-frame image repair, colour correction and digital mastering, in collaboration with Milestone Films, UCLA Film & Television Archive, and Kino Lorber.
Director: Charles Burnett
Cast: Everette Silas, Jessie Holmes, Ronald E. Bell
Certificate: 15
Running Time: 81 minutes