Killer Of Sheep 1977 DVDRip XviD-VoMiT
VoMiT releases another old movie that has a good IMDB rating and many good reviews as well. I don’t know if many people have seen this movie, but I would really like to hear some more about it, is it really worth watching it? A really nice piece for people who collect old rare movies. Enjoy and have a good night!
Movie critic Dana Stevens describes the film plot as “a collection of brief vignettes which are so loosely connected that it feels at times like you’re watching a non-narrative film.” There are no acts, plot arcs or character development, as conventionally defined.
Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders) works long hours at his job in a slaughterhouse in Watts, Los Angeles. The monotonous slaughter affects his home life with his beautiful unnamed wife (Kaycee Moore) and two children, Stan Jr. and Angela (Jack Drummond and Burnett’s niece, Angela). Through a series of episodic events - some friends try to involve Stan in a criminal plot, a white woman propositions Stan in a store, Stan and his friend Bracy (Charles Bracy) attempt to buy a car engine - a mosaic of an austere working-class life, in which Stan feels unable to affect the course of his life, emerges. The futility of this envisioned life is leavened by moments of wry humor and beauty; the most famous scene is of Stan and his wife in an exhausted embrace, slow dancing to Dinah Washington’s “This Bitter Earth”. The final scene is of Stan herding sheep down the metal corridor to their slaughter.
Genre: Drama
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10 (503 votes)
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Starring: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy
Release Name: Killer.Of.Sheep.1977.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT
Size: 1CD, 700MB
Quality: 576 x 432, MP3 VBR Mono
Runtime: 83min
Filenames: vmt-ksheep-xvid
Links: IMDB, Trailer, Homepage
Samples: #1, #2, #3
NFO: here
Torrent: here
Been hearing alot about this film over the years. It’s pretty experimental in it’s narrative so grasp that fact if you download.
Oh, and FIRST!
NYT
KILLER OF SHEEP
The Charles Burnett Collection
Released to theaters in March, Charles Burnett’s 1977 “Killer of Sheep” quickly became one of the best-reviewed films of 2007. A print meticulously restored from Mr. Burnett’s 16-millimeter, black-and-white negative brought out unseen details and introduced new audiences to this subtly heart-rending, seemingly plotless film. It features a character Franz Biberkopf of “Berlin Alexanderplatz” might recognize: Stan (Henry G. Sanders), an African-American eaten away by a nameless misery, who struggles to support his small family by working in a Los Angeles slaughterhouse, willfully unaware of the metaphor his job provides for his place in the economic system.
This 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. Subtitled “The Charles Burnett Collection,” the “Killer of Sheep” DVD also offers Mr. Burnett’s 1983 second feature, “My Brother’s Wedding,” in both its 116-minute first released version and Mr. Burnett’s recent 83-minute revision, along with four of his short films available for the first time.
They include “Several Friends” (1969), an early experiment in the loosely linked storytelling of “Killer of Sheep”; “When It Rains” (1995), a jazzy piece in which a neighborhood activist tries to raise rent money for a saintly woman on Christmas Day; and “Quiet as Kept” (2007), a simmering five-minute video made in response to Hurricane Katrina.
But the richest of the short works is “The Horse,” a 1973 film that remains Mr. Burnett’s only direct examination of the rural background that many of his characters share. Again, there is little story to speak of: A carful of blue-collar whites pulls up at the rundown farm operated by a black farmer and his son; they talk and smoke and fool around with a knife until the reason for their visit emerges: to put down an old horse in the boy’s care.
If it were a short story by Faulkner, “The Horse” would have become an anthology piece decades ago; as a short film by an African-American director, it is only now being discovered — thankfully, not too late for Mr. Burnett, who is still very much with us and has many movies left to make. (Milestone Film and Video, $39.95, not rated)
Looks pretty interesting…
VOMiT releasing something not stolen and half decent?
Hmmmm
Sounds fishy
4th !!!!!
this might be a nice film…old & sweet!
Hey site editors… we got two new movies to be posted and i need to link them!! August Rush Cam from HooKah and the Heart Break Kid Telecine from Pukka!!
The.Heartbreak.Kid.TELECINE.XViD-PUKKA
and August.Rush.CAM.XViD-HooKah
seems decent
can you guys stop adding spoilers….such as the last freekin scene in the movie.
Thanks so much!
@9 i second that
sorry for being off topic but anyone knows the
R5 date for 30 Days of Night?
rslinks plz…
Usenet NZB:
http://rapidshare.com/files/72575372/Killer.Of.Sheep.1977.DVDRip.XviD-VoMiT.nzb
a plot description should *never* include a description of the end of a film outside of some sort of emotional verbage.
mike, it will be hard to have a better film listed among the rips on this site till the end of year
The northern monkeys I know in Yorkshire are are leeching this.
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!
Seriously, posting descriptions of both the most famous and the final scene of a movie 99% of us haven’t seen? Are you 12?
This sounds completely depressing!!!
Relax about the “spoilers” for this film. This one’s not about the plot.
And as someone who just downloaded and viewed it, it’s a keeper. A slice of life of mid-Seventies Watts that could still be made today in my neighborhood, at least.