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Charles Burnett is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor and Cinematography American born on 13 april 1944 at Vicksburg (USA)
Charles Burnett est un réalisateur, scénariste, directeur de la photographie, producteur, monteur et acteur américain né le 13 avril 1944 à Vicksburg, Mississippi (États-Unis).
Les travaux les plus significatifs de Burnett décrivent la vie de Noirs Américains de la classe moyenne urbaine, dans un style quasi-documentaire qui peut être rapproché du néoréalisme italien. On en trouvera une illustration dans son premier long métrage Killer of Sheep (1977). Peu diffusé lors de sa première sortie à cause de problèmes de droits liés à la bande-son, il acquiert cependant une certaine réputation dans le milieu cinématographique américain. En 1990, il est sélectionné pour figurer dans le National Film Registry de la Bibliothèque du congrès. En 2007, les questions de droits enfin éclaircies, le film connaît une nouvelle sortie aux États-Unis, prolongée en 2008 en France. Il réalise son second long-métrage My brother's Wedding en 1983, puis To Sleep with Anger en 1990, film qui obtient l'Independent Spirit Awards du meilleur réalisateur, du meilleur scénario et du meilleur acteur. En 1993, Charles Burnett réalise The Glass Shield, un drame urbain sur la corruption et le racisme qui gangrène la police de Los Angeles. Il réalise également de nombreux documentaires pour la télévision et signe un volet de la série The Blues produite par Martin Scorsese. En 2007, il réalise un nouveau long-métrage Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation, dans lequel il brosse un portrait du leader indépendantiste namibien Samuel Nujoma.
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Charles Burnett
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Comme beaucoup d'autres familles noires, ses parents décident de quitter le Mississippi pour la Californie lors du second mouvement de migration des Afro-Américains qui débute dans les années 1940. Ils cherchent à profiter du dynamisme de l'industrie de la défense, en pleine explosion à la suite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, pour obtenir de meilleures conditions de vie, et notamment le droit de vote. Burnett grandit donc à Los Angeles dans le quartier de Watts. Il décroche un baccalauréat et commence par suivre des études pour devenir électricien, mais attiré par le cinéma et la photographie, il s'inscrit à l'école de théâtre, de cinéma et de télévision de l'Université de Californie à Los Angeles (UCLA).Les travaux les plus significatifs de Burnett décrivent la vie de Noirs Américains de la classe moyenne urbaine, dans un style quasi-documentaire qui peut être rapproché du néoréalisme italien. On en trouvera une illustration dans son premier long métrage Killer of Sheep (1977). Peu diffusé lors de sa première sortie à cause de problèmes de droits liés à la bande-son, il acquiert cependant une certaine réputation dans le milieu cinématographique américain. En 1990, il est sélectionné pour figurer dans le National Film Registry de la Bibliothèque du congrès. En 2007, les questions de droits enfin éclaircies, le film connaît une nouvelle sortie aux États-Unis, prolongée en 2008 en France. Il réalise son second long-métrage My brother's Wedding en 1983, puis To Sleep with Anger en 1990, film qui obtient l'Independent Spirit Awards du meilleur réalisateur, du meilleur scénario et du meilleur acteur. En 1993, Charles Burnett réalise The Glass Shield, un drame urbain sur la corruption et le racisme qui gangrène la police de Los Angeles. Il réalise également de nombreux documentaires pour la télévision et signe un volet de la série The Blues produite par Martin Scorsese. En 2007, il réalise un nouveau long-métrage Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation, dans lequel il brosse un portrait du leader indépendantiste namibien Samuel Nujoma.
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We Blew It (2017)
, 2h17Directed by Jean-Baptiste Thoret
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Ronee Blakley, Peter Bogdanovich, Charles Burnett, Tobe Hooper, Peter Hyams, Jeff Lieberman
Roles Self
Rating57%
Jean-Baptiste Thoret revient sur les utopies des années 1960 et 1970 pour comprendre comment l'Amérique est passée d'Easy Rider à Donald Trump.
These Amazing Shadows (2011)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Christopher Nolan, Allen Daviau, John Waters, Barbara Kopple, Tim Roth, John Lasseter
Roles Self
Rating75%
, 15h15Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Alexandre Sokourov, Norman Lloyd, Lars von Trier, Paul Schrader, Kyōko Kagawa, Haskell Wexler
Roles Self
Rating83%
L'histoire du cinéma international racontée à travers l'histoire de l'innovation cinématographique. Couvrant six continents et douze décennies, il montre comment les cinéastes sont influencés par les événements historiques de leur époque et par les autres cinéastes.
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Relative Stranger (2009)
, 1h25Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Eriq La Salle, Cicely Tyson, Michael Michele, Michael Beach, Dana Davis, Sherri Saum
Rating64%
À la suite d'une fracture, Walter doit mettre un terme à sa carrière de champion de football américain. Diminué, il essaie de trouver un travail dans ce domaine et quitte sa famille pour Chicago.
, 2h41Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Documentary, Historical
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about racism, Political films
Actors Danny Glover, Carl Lumbly
Rating57%
Le film se place du point de vue de Sam Nujoma et relate sa lutte pour l'indépendance de la Namibie envers l'Afrique du Sud. Après l'indépendance, Nujoma devient le premier Président de la République de Namibie.
The Blues (2003)
, 1h33Directed by Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Mike Figgis, Wim Wenders, Richard Pearce, Marc Levin, Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Le blues, Musical films
Actors Keb' Mo
Rating71%
Au moyen d'interviews avec des musiciens, ce film retrace la période des années 1960 en Grande-Bretagne. Une révolution sociale s'est accompagnée d'une révolution musicale sous l'influence du blues.
Warming by the Devil's Fire (2003)
, 1h29Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Le blues, Musical films
Actors Carl Lumbly, Ida Cox, Mamie Smith
Rating22%
Ce volet de la série est une fiction. Il présente les conflits entre générations, dans les années 1950. Les anciens opposent la spiritualité de gospel au blues "diabolique".
The Blues (2003)
, 1h29Directed by Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese, Mike Figgis, Wim Wenders, Richard Pearce, Marc Levin, Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Le blues, Musical films
Rating71%
Ce troisième film de la série est situé à Memphis, d'où sortit un nouveau style de blues. Il contient des documents sur Howlin' Wolf mais s'attache principalement à la personnalité de B.B. King.
Selma, Lord, Selma (1999)
, 1h34Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about racism, Children's films
Actors Mackenzie Astin, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Clifton Powell, Ella Joyce, Yolanda King, Elisabeth Williams-Omilami
Rating73%
Sheyann Webb meets Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one day while playing outside with her friends. They are told that Dr. King has come to Selma, Alabama to help the Negro people get voting rights. Sheyann learns many things from Dr. King. He teaches her and her friend Rachel (Stephanie Zandra Peyton) that when asked, "Children, what do you want?" their answer should be "Freedom." He also teaches her that everyone deserves to be treated with fairness, regardless of the color of their skin, and that children also have a battle to fight. Sheyann wants to get involved and skips school to sneak into the meetings. One night a friend of Sheyann's named Jimmie Lee Jackson is killed. To draw attention to the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, it is decided that a 54-mile march to the state capital of Alabama will take place. Marchers will present a petition to Governor Wallace to protest that Negroes are not being treated fairly. On Sunday, March 7, 1965, a day that comes to be called Bloody Sunday, Sheyann and other African-American protesters march over the Edmund Pettus Bridge en route to Montgomery, and are attacked by police. Sheyann is the youngest person to attempt to march.
The Wedding (1998)
, 2h15Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Halle Berry, Lynn Whitfield, Carl Lumbly, Shirley Knight, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Cynda Williams
Rating61%
Shelby Cole (Halle Berry) returns to Martha's Vineyard and the Cole family home, affectionately known in town as 'The Oval', to wed her white fiancé, jazz pianist and composer Meade Howell (Eric Thal). While her black high-society parents initially accept the pair, even arranging the wedding to be held at the mansion, they have growing misgivings as to the pair's ability to withstand the racial prejudice of the time, only made stronger after Meade admits that his own middle-class parents will not be attending the wedding because of their prejudice against their daughter-in-law-to-be. Through frequent flashbacks throughout, we see the racial, societal and class choices made by Shelby's white great-grandmother on her mother's side (Shirley Knight), her grandparents and parents to insure the family's standing, even while those choices may have robbed them of the very happiness they sought. While Shelby dismisses and even rebuffs much of their advice, her own doubts grow as she and Meade go through their own current experiences of racism and racial expectations. Seeing her growing misgivings, Lute McNeil (Carl Lumbly), local architect, father and neighbor of the Coles, sees an opportunity to try to win Shelby's heart, having loved her from afar for some time. With Lute's persistent, sometimes unwanted, attentions, Shelby starts to question her marrying Meade. After a racist incident at a local restaurant, Shelby even confesses to Meade that she doesn't want to spend the rest of her life defending their relationship and asks him to give her time to finally decide.
Nightjohn (1996)
, 1h32Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about slavery, Films about racism
Actors Beau Bridges, Gabriel Casseus, Carl Lumbly, Lorraine Toussaint, Bill Cobbs, Kathleen York
Rating67%
Sarny is born in the slaves' cabin. Their master, Clel Waller, walks in and becomes angry when he realizes that it is a girl, instead of a boy. He states that a boy is worth a thousand dollars while a girl is worth nothing. But a promise has been made, so the baby girl is not sold. Instead, later when Sarny becomes a child, her mother is sold so that Mr. Waller can recover his money. Sarny is then taken care of by another slave, Delie.
The Glass Shield (1994)
, 1h49Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Ice Cube, Michael Boatman, Elliott Gould, Ice-T, Lori Petty, Michael Ironside
Rating60%
Deputy John Johnson (J.J.) (Michael Boatman) is a rookie in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department and the first black deputy at the station to which he is assigned. Racial tensions run high in the department as some of J.J.'s fellow officers resent his presence. His only real friend is the other new deputy (Lori Petty), the first female officer to work there, who also suffers similar discrimination in the otherwise all-white-male work environment. When J.J. becomes increasingly aware of police corruption during the murder trial of Teddy Woods (Ice Cube), who he helped to arrest, he faces difficult
To Sleep with Anger (1990)
, 1h42Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Danny Glover, Richard Brooks, Mary Alice, DeVaughn Nixon, Reina King, Sheryl Lee Ralph
Rating71%
Harry (Danny Glover), an enigmatic old friend from the South, comes to visit Gideon (Paul Butler) and his wife Suzie (Mary Alice), who haven't seen him for many years, who are delighted to see him again, and who insist that he stay with them for as long as he would like. Gideon and Suzie live in South Central Los Angeles, though they retain some of their rural southern ways, including raising chickens in the backyard. Harry has a charming, down-home manner, but his presence brings to a crisis the simmering trouble that is already in the family—especially as regards the younger son, Samuel or "Baby Brother," and his relation to his parents, wife, and older brother, Junior (Carl Lumbly). His disruptive presence is dangerous (his influence threatens to break up Samuel's marriage and seems to be related to the illness that puts Gideon in bed in serious condition for a couple weeks), but ultimately purgative: Gideon's extended family is much more cohesive as a result of Harry's visit. The storm accompanying the wound Suzie suffers when she grasps the knife that Samuel and Junior are struggling over during their climactic fight clears while the two brothers quietly reconcile (during a long wait in an emergency room) and, similarly, the simmering anger that Harry seemed to bring to a boil is also dissipated. Harry's death just before the end of the film suggests, ambiguously, that he has been to a degree a self-sacrificing savior of the family.
My Brother's Wedding (1983)
, 1h16Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Charles Drake, Frances E. Nealy, Henry G. Sanders, Sy Richardson
Rating70%
The movie opens with a man playing the harmonica and singing the blues. Pierce is then seen walking down the street when he gets called by a woman to see her sister's baby. Pierce says that he doesn't have time because he has to go to visit Soldier's mother, but goes in anyway. At the house, Pierce asks who the father is and the woman says that he could be the father if he wants. Angered by the comment, Pierce leaves the house and continues his way to Soldier's place.
Killer of Sheep (1978)
, 1h20Directed by Charles Burnett
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Henry G. Sanders
Rating71%
Stan works long hours at a slaughterhouse in Watts, Los Angeles. The monotonous slaughter affects his home life with his unnamed wife and two children, Stan Jr. and Angela.