To sleep with anger

DVD 2019

Harry, a devilish charmer, 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, it is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sens...

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African American families Fiction

African Americans California Los Angeles Fiction

Los Angeles (Calif.) Fiction

Superstition Fiction

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Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 963 Criterion collection ; 963 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681435558

Description:

1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
digital optical surround Dolby Digital 2.0
video file DVD video region 1
polychrome

Target Audience Note:

Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1990
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director; Of Family and Folklore, a new interview program, featuring Charles 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. Container insert includes the essay "You Never Know What's in the Heart" by film critic Ashley Clark
Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph
DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0
For private home use only
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

Control Number:

2667364

UPC:

715515226813

Other Authors:

Alice, Mary, 1936-2022, actor
Burnett, Charles, 1944- film director, screenwriter
Butler, Paul, 1941 or 1942-2010, actor
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher
Glover, Danny, actor
Lumbly, Carl, actor
SVS Films, presenter

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