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Charles Burnett: to SLEEP with ANGER (1990, 102M) the Version of This Goldenrod Handout Sent out in Our Monday Mailing, and the One Online, Has Hot Links November 12: 2019 (XXXIX: 12) Charles Burnett: TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990, 102m) The version of this Goldenrod Handout sent out in our Monday mailing, and the one online, has hot links. Spelling and Style—use of italics, quotation marks or nothing at all for titles, e.g.—follows the form of the sources. DIRECTOR Charles Burnett WRITING Charles Burnett PRODUCERS Thomas S. Byrnes, Caldecot Chubb, and Darin Scott MUSIC Stephen James Taylor CINEMATOGRAPHY Walt Lloyd EDITING Nancy Richardson In 2017 the National Film Preservation Board, USA, selected the film for the National Film Registry. CAST Danny Glover...Harry Paul Butler...Gideon DeVaughn Nixon...Sunny Mary Alice...Suzie Reina King...Rhonda Cory Curtis...Skip Richard Brooks...Babe Brother UCLA thesis film Killer of Sheep (1978), like Jenkins’s Sheryl Lee Ralph...Linda Moonlight, was “made on a tiny budget, was beautifully Carl Lumbly...Junior poetic…was about black people who didn’t have much Paula Bellamy...Mrs. Baker money, and…starred first-time, untrained actors.” Vonetta McGee...Pat McDonald notes that “Burnett was part of a movement of Wonderful Smith...Preacher filmmakers now known as the L.A. Rebellion” that began Ethel Ayler...Hattie when UCLA professor Elyseo J. Taylor began the Film Beverly Mickins...Neighbor and Social Change program, which some have seen Jimmy Witherspoon...Percy Moonlight’s best picture win as “mainstream recognition of the principles for which the L.A. Rebellion had long been CHARLES BURNETT (b. April 13, 1944 in Vicksburg, advocating” (McDonald). In a large leap from his low- Mississippi) is an American film director (29 credits), film budget beginnings, his third feature, To Sleep with Anger producer (7 credits), writer (16 credits), and editor (7 (1990), was his most expensive film yet, costing a still credits). Soraya Nadia McDonald, preceding Burnett’s modest $1.4 million made possible by Danny Glover’s honorary Oscar in 2017, proclaimed: “There’s no attachment as star and executive producer. These are some Moonlight without Charles Burnett.” She elaborates, of his other films: My Brother's Wedding (1983), America suggesting that his winning the honorary Oscar the same Becoming (Documentary) (1991), The Glass Shield (1994), year Barry Jenkins’s film won Best Picture was a “lovely When It Rains (Short) (1995), Nightjohn (TV Movie) tribute and a fitting piece of symmetry” because Burnett’s (1996), The Wedding (TV Movie) (1998), Dr. Endesha Ida Burnett—TO SLEEP WITH ANGER—2 Mae Holland (Documentary short) (1998), The Annihilation (2007), Alien Raiders (2008), Follow the Prophet (2009), The of Fish (1999), Finding Buck McHenry (TV Movie) (2000), Forger (2012), Under the Dome (TV Series) (2015), The American Family (TV Series) (2002), Nat Turner: A Detour (TV Series) (2018), and The I-Land (TV Series) Troublesome Property (Documentary) (2003), For Reel? (TV (2019). Movie documentary) (2003), The Blues (TV Series documentary) (2003), DANNY GLOVER (b. July Namibia: The Struggle for 22, 1946 in San Francisco, Liberation (2007), Relative California) is an American Stranger (TV Movie) (2009), actor (199 credits). He is Mulatto Saga (Short) (2012), known for his lead role as Juliette Fairley's Mulatto's Roger Murtaugh in the Dilemma (Short) (2012), and Lethal Weapon film series Power to Heal: Medicare and (1987-1998). He also has the Civil Rights Revolution leading roles in the films The (TV Movie documentary) Color Purple (1985), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Predator 2 STEPHEN JAMES (1990), Angels in the Outfield TAYLOR (b. March 18, (1994) and Operation Dumbo 1967 (age 52 years), Los Drop (1995). Glover has Angeles, CA) is an American composer best known for his prominent supporting roles in Silverado (1985), Witness film and TV scores (64 credits). These are some of the (1985), Death at a Funeral (2010), Dirty Grandpa (2016), films and television series he has worked on: To Sleep with and Sorry to Bother You (2018). These are some of the other Anger (1990), Brother Future (TV Movie) (1991), G.I. Joe many film appearances he has had: Escape from Alcatraz (TV Series) (1990-1992), The Giving (1992), I'll Fly Away (1979), Hill Street Blues (TV Series) (1981), Gimme a (TV Series) (1992-1993), The Glass Shield (1994), The Break! (TV Series) (1981), Out (1982), Iceman (1984), Final Insult (Documentary) (1997), The Wedding (TV Places in the Heart (1984), Mandela (TV Movie) (1987), Movie) (1998), The Wonderful World of Disney (TV Series) Bat*21 (1988), Lonesome Dove (TV Mini-Series) (1989), (1999), Finding Buck McHenry (2000), John Henry (Short) Flight of the Intruder (1991), A Rage in Harlem (1991), (2000), Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story (TV Movie) Grand Canyon (1991), Maverick (1994), The Rainmaker (2000), 10,000 Black Men Named George (TV Movie) (1997), Antz (1998), Beloved (1998), The Prince of Egypt (2002), The Blues (TV Series documentary) (2003), (1998), The Monster (1999), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Teacher's Pet (2004), The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (Video) Missing in America (2005), Dreamgirls (2006), Namibia: The (2006), Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007), Of Boys Struggle for Liberation (2007), Battle for Terra (2007), and Men (2008), Phantom Punch (2008), Sean (Short) Honeydripper (2007), Be Kind Rewind (2008), Night Train (2008), Lefty (Short) (2008), Black Panther (TV Mini- (2009), Dear Alice (2010), I'm Still Here (2010), Legendary Series) (2010), Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the (2010), Heart of Blackness (2011), LUV (2012), Highland Politics of Race (TV Movie documentary) (2015), Southside Park (2013), Space Warriors (2013), Muhammad Ali's with You (2016), and Maya Angelou and Still I Rise Greatest Fight (2013), Rage (2014), Ninja Immovable Heart (Documentary) (2016). (2014), Yellowbird (2014), Day of the Mummy (2014), Waffle Street (2015), Gridlocked (2015), Complete Unknown WALT LLOYD is a cinematographer (53 credits) who (2016), Mr. Pig (2016), Pushing Dead (2016), Almost has worked since the late 1980s. These are some of the Christmas (2016), Monster Trucks (2016), The Good Catholic films he has worked on: Dangerously Close (1986), The (2017), Extortion (2017), Proud Mary (2018), Ulysses: A Wash (1988), Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), To Sleep with Dark Odyssey (2018), The Old Man & the Gun (2018), The Anger (1990), Pump Up the Volume (1990), Zandalee (1991), Last Black Man in San Francisco (2019), The Dead Don't Die Kafka (1991), The Santa Clause (1994), Frank & Jesse (2019), and Strive (2019). (1995), Feeling Minnesota (1996), Private Parts (1997), Dark Harbor (1998), Superstar (1999), Three to Tango PAUL BUTLER (b. March 12, 1942 in Pennsylvania, (1999), They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (TV Movie) (2002), PA—d. January 12, 2010 (age 67) in Manhattan, New CSI: Miami (TV Series) (2002-2003), Trump Unauthorized York) was an American actor known for roles in films, such (TV Movie) (2005), The Librarian: Return to King as The Blues Brothers (1980), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Solomon's Mines (TV Movie) (2006), The Air I Breathe and Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). These are some of his Burnett—TO SLEEP WITH ANGER—3 other film and television appearances: The Spook Who Sat by by Degrees" and "New Orleans Woman", recorded with the Door (1973), Old Enough (1984), Compromising the Gene Gilbeaux Orchestra (which included Herman Positions (1985), Things Change (1988), Renegades (1989), Washington and Don Hill) for Modern Records. He The Rookie (1990), He Said, She Said (1991), The Cabinet of began occasionally acting in the late 1960s on The Bill Dr. Ramirez (1991), Homicide (1991), Strictly Business Cosby Show (1969). These are his other acting roles: The (1991), Zebrahead (1992), Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), New Black Godfather (1974), Willa (TV Movie) (1979), To Sleep York Undercover (TV Series) (1994-1995), The Spanish with Anger (1990), Georgia (1995), and The Big Easy (TV Prisoner (1997), The Giraffe (1998), Homicide: Life on the Series) (1996). Street (TV Series) (1999), The Insider (1999), Confess (2005), Reign Over Me (2007), Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), and The Only Good Indian (2009). DEVAUGHN NIXON (b. July 8, 1983 (age 36 years), Los Angeles, CA) is an American actor (35 credits). These are some films and television series he has acted in: To Sleep with Anger (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), The Rapture (1991), The Bodyguard (1992), Sugar Hill (1993), Lizzie McGuire (TV Series) (2001), Quintuplets (TV Series) (2004), JAG (TV Series) (2005), The Unit (TV Series) (2007), The Game (TV Series) (2008), Monster Heroes (2010), Prom (2011), and NCIS Ashley Clark: “To Sleep with Anger: You Never Know (TV Series) (2018). What’s in the Heart” (Criterion, 2019) The trailblazing African American director MARY ALICE (b. December 3, 1941 in Indianola, Charles Burnett’s third feature, To Sleep with Anger (1990), Mississippi) is an American film and television actress (57 was his biggest production to date, albeit still made on a credits). These are some of the films and television series modest budget of $1.4 million, a significant portion of she has acted in: Requiem for a Nun (TV Movie) (1975), which was raised through the attachment of its star and Sanford and Son (TV Series) (1975), Serpico (TV Series) executive producer, Danny Glover. At that point, on the (1976), Beat Street (1984), Teachers (1984), The Women of heels of the first two Lethal Weapon films, Glover was a Brewster Place (TV Series) (1989), To Sleep with Anger genuine Hollywood attraction, but To Sleep with (1990), Awakenings (1990), The Bonfire of the Vanities Anger stands in stark contrast to the explosive antics of (1990), Malcolm X (1992), Law & Order (TV Series) Riggs and Murtaugh. It is a quiet, nuanced, and utterly (1993), Life with Mikey (1993), A Perfect World (1993), beguiling drama of family and folklore, featuring Glover as Heading Home (1995), The Photographer (2000), Touched by Harry Mention, an enigmatic drifter who one day arrives at an Angel (TV Series) (2000), Oz (TV Series) (2002), the home of a middle-class black family in South Central Sunshine State (2002), The Matrix Revolutions (2003), and Los Angeles.
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