There are first films like Citizen Kane or Breathless, which, as radically new and fully achieved as they are, unfairly overshadow an entire oeuvre. And then there are first films, perhaps even more ...

For decades, Charles Burnett’s best film was little more than a rumor. Shot over weekends in the early 1970s with a mostly nonprofessional cast and a budget that didn’t hit five figures, “Killer of ...

Hugh Jackman may have found his most unexpected project yet in the first trailer for Amazon's latest take on the mystery genre. With a star-studded cast and crew, the unconventional comedy follows a ...

The tender comforts and unspoken disappointments of marriage are captured on screen with remarkable understatement in Charles Burnett’s “Killer of Sheep” (1977), a film soon to be undergoing a revival ...

NEW YORK -- Charles Burnett has been living with "Killer of Sheep" for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot "Killer of Sheep" on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less than $10,000.

NEW YORK — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a century. Burnett, 81, shot “Killer of Sheep” on black-and-white 16mm in the early 1970s for less than $10,000.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. NEW YORK (AP) — Charles Burnett has been living with “Killer of Sheep” for more than half a ...