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"The Killer of Sheep Killer of Sheep; don't let the title put you off! In cinematic history (that's a really long time!) few films have portrayed ghetto life as accurately and humanely as ‘Killer in Sheep'. What aspects, you might ask, make it a real standout among others? Well, consider the fact that it was shot by a UCLA student on weekends with a shoestring budget, using a mostly amateur cast. Charles Burnett, the director of this poignant tale, unknowingly created a film that has acquired cult status since its creation thirty years ago. Although very few independent movies that suffered the same initial fate as Killer of Sheep (limited distribution) can be called "cult films" today (Punishment Park and Stroszek come to mind), critics unanimously lauded this simplistic production for its accurate depiction of the down-and-out lifestyle many people suffered in Watts, an African-American ghetto of Los Angeles. I had never heard of this movie until our Arts Editor told me abou ... "
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"Killer of Sheep is supposed to be some kind of neo-realist slice of life, I think. But those who found even those films to contrived and plot driven will probably enjoy this movie, that has no story and no resolution. Some people will love this film, but I found that, accurate at its look at the lives of the characters may be, there was not much of a reason to care. It also hard to understand what there is to care about. The sound on this low-budget feature is very bad, and the characters speak in a thick Ebonic dialect. This means that much of the dialogue is hard to understand (I was not the only person who felt this way). Since the movie is plotless, it crucially important that we understand the character relationships. The movie is about a black family in a big city (I know from what I read it's Los Angeles).
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"i have a wonderful picture of all my movie ticket stubs from this year in a pile but i can’t get it transferred to my filmblog (yes, i save my ticket stubs and scrapbook them at the end of the year…i know, it’s sad really)! armed with discount movie coupons, i saw 118 movies this year at the theater and, as usual, it was really hard to narrow them down but here’s my list, for what it’s worth. some are from 2006 that i didn’t see until later. my 15 favorite movies at the theater in 2007the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert fordthe diving bell and the butterflythe lives of othersjunothe painted veilonceno country for old men< "
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"Paul and Kevin navigate the gauntlet of trying to watch movies at home. Stu Vanairsdale, The Reeler, reviews a lost gem from 1976, the newly restored and released film, Killer of Sheep. Kevin drops his two-cents on Will Ferrell’s Blades of Glory.
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"apparently this is a "lost gem" and i was lucky to see it. i heard going in that it was dark and depressing so i was waiting the whole time for the shoe to drop, which never happened. the whole story was the shoe dropping i guess! in summary, it's the story of Stan and his little family who live in a ghetto. he works in a slaughterhouse, hence the title. there's really no story arc, just observations of the family and their life. i think more than half the movie was children playing outside in what passed for a neighborhood. i read somewhere that it was hard to get the music rights, which is why it wasn't released before, but without the music it would have been an entirely different movie. highly recommended. "
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"Paul and Kevin navigate the gauntlet of trying to watch movies at home. Stu Vanairsdale, The Reeler, reviews a lost gem from 1976, the newly restored and released film, Killer of Sheep. Kevin drops his two-cents on Will Ferrell's Blades of Glory. Downlo "
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