Release Date: February 26, 2019
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: $28.32
Director: Charles Burnett
Writer: Charles Burnett
Starring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice, Richard Brooks
A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover 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 smoldering 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
1990 TRAILER:
Criterion: $31.96
Amazon: $28.32
Director: Charles Burnett
Writer: Charles Burnett
Starring: Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon, Mary Alice, Richard Brooks
- United States
- 1990
- 107 minutes
- Color
- 1.85:1
- English
A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover 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 smoldering 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.
SPECIAL FEATURES
DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION:
- New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Charles Burnett, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray
- New interview program featuring Burnett, actors Danny Glover and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and associate producer Linda Koulisis
- A Walk with Charles Burnett, a new hour-long conversation between Burnett and filmmaker Robert Townsend that revisits Burnett’s films and shooting locations
- Short video tribute to Burnett produced for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards ceremony in 2017
- PLUS: An essay by critic Ashley Clark
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