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Part of a Black History Month Charles Burnett Double Bill, playing with the new 4K restored version of director Burnett’s THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH on October 26th. Buy a ticket for both and receive a 20% discount on your order!
A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, TO SLEEP WITH ANGER by Charles Burnett (Killer of Sheep) is a singular piece of American mythmaking.
In a towering performance, Danny Glover (The Color Purple) plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry’s presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smouldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation.
Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, To Sleep with Anger is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of black mysticism and folklore.