To Sleep with Anger
Director: Charles Burnett Run Time: 101 min. Format: Digital Release Year: 1990
Starring: Carl Lumbly, Danny Glover, Mary Alice, Paul Butler, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Screenwriter: Charles Burnett
Producers: Caldecott Chubb, Darin Scott, Thomas S. Byrnes
Interweaving family, folklore, superstition, tradition, and modernism – Burnett’s smoldering and poetic film remains a brilliant and vital piece of filmmaking. Danny Glover (fresh off two Lethal Weapons) plays Harry – a southern drifter who visits his old friend in South Central Los Angeles and begins to turn everyone’s world towards chaos.
Introduction by composer Stephen Taylor at the Friday March 29th screening.
Presented in collaboration with Occidental College’s Media Arts and Culture Department.
These screenings are generously supported by Golden Globe Foundation.