To Sleep with Anger + When It Rains
May 9, 2019 4:30pm
To Sleep with Anger
Dir. Charles Burnett
1990, 102min, DCP
With Danny Glover, Paul Butler, DeVaughn Nixon
Charles Burnett’s beguiling, poetic realist fable charts the fissures that form within a Los Angeles family when they receive a surprise visit from an old Southern acquaintance (a mesmerizing Danny Glover), who turns out to be the houseguest from hell—perhaps literally. Interweaving strains of black folklore, surrealism, and macabre comedy, Burnett fashions a masterpiece of idiosyncratic genius.
When It Rains
Dir. Charles Burnett
1995, 13min, 35mm
In Burnett’s jazz-inflected reflection on music, black identity, and community, a trumpeter spends New Years Day helping a friend raise money to pay her rent and keep her from being evicted.
Run time: 115min
General Admission: $15
Location
Peter Jay Sharp Building – BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave.
Brooklyn NY 11217 USA