Blu-ray
To sleep with anger
Call Number
- BLU-RAY DRAMA (CEN)
Edition
Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
Languages
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Performers
Danny Glover, Paul Butler, Mary Alice, Carl Lumbly, Vonetta McGee, Richard Brooks, Sheryl Lee Ralph.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2019]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (102 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Audience
MPAA rating: PG.
Summary
"A slow-burning masterwork of the early 1990s, this third feature by Charles Burnett is a singular piece of American mythmaking. In a towering performance, Danny Glover plays the enigmatic southern drifter Harry, a devilish charmer who turns up out of the blue on the South Central Los Angeles doorstep of his old friends. In short order, Harry's presence turns a seemingly peaceful household upside down, exposing smoldering tensions between parents and children, tradition and change, virtue and temptation. Interweaving evocative strains of gospel and blues with rich, poetic-realist images, To Sleep with Anger is a sublimely stirring film from an autonomous artistic sensibility, a portrait of family resilience steeped in the traditions of black mysticism and folklore."--Container.
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.
Special features: New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Charles Burnett, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack ; Of family and folklore, a new interview program, featuring Burnett, actors Danny Glover and Sheryl Lee Ralph, and associate producer Linda Koulisis ; A walk with Charles Burnett, a new hour-long conversation between Burnett and filmmaker Robert Townsend that revisits Burnett's films and shooting locations ; short video tribute to Burnett produced for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards ceremony in 2017.