My Brother's Wedding (Director's Cut)

Following his acclaimed 1977 debut feature Killer of Sheep, the second film from pioneering African American director Charles Burnett was rushed to semi-completion in 1983 to meet an unrealistic film festival deadline; as a result, Burnett was unable to complete the film he had envisioned. Happily, in 2007, Burnett was able to finance a leaner, stronger, and altogether different version of My Brother’s Wedding.

Eloquent, relaxed, and captivating, My Brother’s Wedding—now fully restored by the director—is a funny, heartbreaking, and honest family drama about a young L.A. man whose family obligations come into conflict with his yet-unfinished plans for his own future. This richly textured portrait of a family and their neighborhood reveals the humanity of the artist who would later create To Sleep With Anger and The Annihilation of Fish. Admission free as part of Black History Month. 

“A film of astonishing richness and density… so firmly rooted in a specific time and place that it seems to contain worlds.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times