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<blockquote data-quote="auteur" data-source="post: 1057368206" data-attributes="member: 16170"><p><strong>Re: Απάντηση: Ποιά Ταινία Μόλις Είδατε?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>Critical reception<span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><span style="color: #555555">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killer_of_Sheep&action=edit&section=4" target="_blank">edit</a><span style="color: #555555">]</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><strong>Though the film won the Critics' Award at the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Film_Festival" target="_blank">Berlin Film Festival</a> and was acclaimed at the Toronto International Film Festival, it never saw <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_release" target="_blank">wide release</a>due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Washington" target="_blank">Dinah Washington</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson" target="_blank">Paul Robeson</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" target="_blank">Louis Armstrong</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Wind_and_Fire" target="_blank">Earth, Wind and Fire</a>. It remained in obscurity for nearly thirty years, garnering much critical and academic praise and earning a reputation as a lost classic.</strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><strong><em>Killer of Sheep</em> holds a 97% "fresh" rating on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" target="_blank">Rotten Tomatoes</a>; the consensus states: "By turns funny, sad, and profound, <em>Killer of Sheep</em> offers a sympathetic and humane glimpse into inner-city life."[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_sheep#cite_note-5" target="_blank">[5]</a>[/SUP] The film has been likened by a number of critics and scholars to the work of Italian neorealist directors, particularly <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica" target="_blank">Vittorio De Sica</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini" target="_blank">Roberto Rossellini</a>, for his documentary aesthetic and use of mostly non-professional, on-location actors. Burnett has also been compared to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujiro_Ozu" target="_blank">Yasujiro Ozu</a> for his strong sense of composition, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" target="_blank">Stanley Kubrick</a> for his sharp ear for juxtaposing popular music with images, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cassavetes" target="_blank">John Cassavetes</a> for his knack for coaxing natural performances from amateur actors, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman" target="_blank">Robert Altman</a> for his interest in the minutiae of human interaction. Burnett's self-professed influences are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Renoir" target="_blank">Jean Renoir</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wright" target="_blank">Basil Wright</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Fellini" target="_blank">Federico Fellini</a>, all of whom are high examples of the tender, humane and compassionate qualities for which Burnett has been praised, qualities which are intensely present in <em>Killer of Sheep</em>. Film critic Andrew O'Hehir, noting the strong influences of Renoir, Rossellini, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" target="_blank">Satyajit Ray</a></strong>, <strong>said, "It's hard to overemphasize how strange and ambitious and completely out of context it was for a black urban filmmaker with no money and no reputation to make that kind of movie in 1977."</strong>[SUP]<strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_sheep#cite_note-salon-6" target="_blank">[6]</a></strong></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">[/SUP]</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">The film was chosen by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics" target="_blank">National Society of Film Critics</a> as one of the 100 Essential Films. In 1990, <em>Killer of Sheep</em> was selected for preservation in the United States <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry" target="_blank">National Film Registry</a> by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress" target="_blank">Library of Congress</a> for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #252525"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_Sheep" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_Sheep</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="auteur, post: 1057368206, member: 16170"] [b]Re: Απάντηση: Ποιά Ταινία Μόλις Είδατε?[/b] [SIZE=3] [B]Critical reception[FONT=sans-serif][COLOR=#555555][[/COLOR][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Killer_of_Sheep&action=edit§ion=4"]edit[/URL][COLOR=#555555]][/COLOR][/FONT][/B] [COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif][B]Though the film won the Critics' Award at the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Film_Festival"]Berlin Film Festival[/URL] and was acclaimed at the Toronto International Film Festival, it never saw [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_release"]wide release[/URL]due to complications in securing the music rights for the 22 songs on the soundtrack, which included such big names as [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Washington"]Dinah Washington[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Robeson"]Paul Robeson[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong"]Louis Armstrong[/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth,_Wind_and_Fire"]Earth, Wind and Fire[/URL]. It remained in obscurity for nearly thirty years, garnering much critical and academic praise and earning a reputation as a lost classic.[/B] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif][B][I]Killer of Sheep[/I] holds a 97% "fresh" rating on [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes"]Rotten Tomatoes[/URL]; the consensus states: "By turns funny, sad, and profound, [I]Killer of Sheep[/I] offers a sympathetic and humane glimpse into inner-city life."[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_sheep#cite_note-5"][5][/URL][/SUP] The film has been likened by a number of critics and scholars to the work of Italian neorealist directors, particularly [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica"]Vittorio De Sica[/URL] and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini"]Roberto Rossellini[/URL], for his documentary aesthetic and use of mostly non-professional, on-location actors. Burnett has also been compared to [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujiro_Ozu"]Yasujiro Ozu[/URL] for his strong sense of composition, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick"]Stanley Kubrick[/URL] for his sharp ear for juxtaposing popular music with images, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cassavetes"]John Cassavetes[/URL] for his knack for coaxing natural performances from amateur actors, and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Altman"]Robert Altman[/URL] for his interest in the minutiae of human interaction. Burnett's self-professed influences are [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Renoir"]Jean Renoir[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Wright"]Basil Wright[/URL], and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Fellini"]Federico Fellini[/URL], all of whom are high examples of the tender, humane and compassionate qualities for which Burnett has been praised, qualities which are intensely present in [I]Killer of Sheep[/I]. Film critic Andrew O'Hehir, noting the strong influences of Renoir, Rossellini, and [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray"]Satyajit Ray[/URL][/B], [B]said, "It's hard to overemphasize how strange and ambitious and completely out of context it was for a black urban filmmaker with no money and no reputation to make that kind of movie in 1977."[/B][SUP][B][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_sheep#cite_note-salon-6"][6][/URL][/B] [/SUP][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#252525][FONT=sans-serif]The film was chosen by the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Society_of_Film_Critics"]National Society of Film Critics[/URL] as one of the 100 Essential Films. In 1990, [I]Killer of Sheep[/I] was selected for preservation in the United States [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Registry"]National Film Registry[/URL] by the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress"]Library of Congress[/URL] for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE][URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_of_Sheep[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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