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Born in Mississippi and raised in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, Charles Burnett is an independent filmmaker whose work has been praised for its portrayal of the African-American experience. A 4K restoration of his first feature film, <a href="https://kinolorber.com/film/killer-of-sheep" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Killer of Sheep</a>, which Burnett wrote, directed, produced, photographed, and edited in 1977, is now in theaters through Kino Lorber. Since then, the United States Library of Congress has declared the film a &#8220;national treasure,&#8221; as one of the first 50 films on the National Film Registry, and the National Society of Film Critics selected it as one of the &#8220;100 Essential Films&#8221; of all time. His other films include The Glass Shield, a groundbreaking narrative on police corruption and violence, My Brother’s Wedding, To Sleep With Anger (starring Danny Glover), and his lost 1999 film, The Annihilation of Fish starring James Earl Jones and Lynn Redgrave, which was finally released in early 2025. Burnett’s nonfiction work includes The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese, Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property, and the PBS documentary Power To Heal, on the painful history of segregation at southern U.S. Hospitals. (Photo courtesy Milestone Films and the Walker Art Center.)

Charles Burnett

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Three Great Things: Charles Burnett

During the course of his notable career, Walter Hill has been a writer, director and producer on projects ranging from classic Westerns to action-packed thrillers and noir dramas, all marked with his unique visceral style. He most recently wrote and directed the Western Dead For a Dollar, starring Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan and Benjamin Bratt, which is in theaters and on digital on September 30. Hill directed the smash hits 48 Hrs. and Another 48 Hrs. and is best-known for such acclaimed films as The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort and The Long Riders. He also directed the pilot of HBO’s hit show Deadwood and the Emmy-winning miniseries Broken Trail. In addition to his work in the cinema and television, Hill has also written three graphic novels which have been published in France (Balles Perdues, Corps et Âme and Le Specimen), the second of which served as the basis for his 2016 film, The Assignment. (Photo by François Bouchon.)

Walter Hill

Three Great Things: Walter Hill

Ana Asensio is an international actress, writer and director from Spain, living in New York. She has acted in Spanish TV drama series and independent films, produced and starred in award-winning plays, and adapted a Spanish best-selling novel into a one-woman show. Most Beautiful Island, her first feature film as a writer/director, won the Grand Jury Award at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and will be released theatrically by Orion and Samuel Goldwyn Films.

Ana Asensio

Cowboys, Aliens, Dracula and Dubbing: Memories of a Small-Screen Childhood

Ti West is the writer-director of the horror films The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers, The Sacrament and the upcoming Western In a Valley of Violence. He prefers film over digital.

Ti West

Ti West (The Sacrament) Talks Tommy Lee Jones’ The Homesman

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