“I Was Only Trying to be Objective — That Was My Conflict:” Charles Burnett on Killer of Sheep
With Killer of Sheep entering the Criterion Collection today in a new 4K restoration, we are reposting James Ponsoldt’s interview with its director, Charles Burnett, from our Spring, 2007 issue. “When I stumbled across a 16mm print of Killer of Sheep at film school in North Carolina, it was like finding gold. I had never seen an American film quite like it…raw, honest simplicity that left me sitting there in an excited silence. It echoed throughout George Washington, the first film that David Gordon Green and I made together.” — Tim Orr, cinematographer (All the Real Girls, Raising Victor Vargas) […]
by James Ponsoldt on May 27, 2010
