Killer of Sheep "is a genuinely great film, and now it has reached DVD as only one component of a superb two-disc set from Milestone Film and Video," writes Dave Kehr in the New York Times. The set includes My Brother''s Wedding and four short films by Charles Burnett. "If it were a short story by Faulkner, The Horse would have become an anthology piece decades ago."

"On the surface merely a mood piece about the enervating, dead-end existence of being black in 1970s America, Killer of Sheep attains an inexplicable elemental power, an almost primal thrust and mystery that suggests, at least to the willing viewer, millennia of godless desperation, human embattlement and food-chain horror," writes Michael Atkinson at IFC News. "It''s a ghost movie, returned to haunt us."

Updated through 11/14. Posted by: dwhudson    Source

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