KILLER OF SHEEP   Director: Charles Burnett Year: 1977 Runtime: 83 min. Country: USA Language: English Color: B&W Format: 16mm

The first feature film from acclaimed African American filmmaker Charles Burnett (To Sleep with Anger, The Glass Shield), this intensely emotional drama follows Stan, a sensitive man working a slaughterhouse job and grappling with poverty, family demands and the allure of violence. Killer of Sheep (which has been termed the American Bicycle Thief) is a film of astonishing poignancy that manages to be simultaneously naturalistic and poetic, witty and heartbreaking. In 1990, it was one of the first 50 films to be listed as a national treasure on the Library of Congress' National Film Registry—no small feat for a film that has never been commercially released. "Burnett is one of film's poets. His extraordinary lyric gifts and strikingly humanistic imagery are abundantly present. It shouldn't be missed...a flat-out treasure, impervious to time." — Jay Carr, The Boston Globe "[A] remarkable work...conceivably the best single feature about ghetto life that we have. It shouldn't be missed." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader "If [Killer of Sheep] were an Italian film from 1953, we would have every scene memorized." — Michael Tolkin Selected by the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry     showtime Tuesday, October 4 at 7 pm location THE GREEN ROOM 144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel) admission $6 general / $4 GBFS members

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