Screening times:
Saturday, August 23, 8:30 PM

Charles Burnett | USA | 1999 | 108m

In August we take a look at some of the films of the great Charles Burnett - especially as two of them have very recently been restored: Killer of Sheep and The Annihilation of Fish!

New restoration! Winner of an Honorary Academy Award for lifetime achievement, Charles Burnett remains one of the US's most celebrated independent filmmakers.

In his charming The Annihilation of Fish, Lynn Redgrave plays Poinsettia, a former housewife with an imagined lover in the form of 19th-century composer Giacomo Puccini.

She moves into a Los Angeles boarding house with an energetic landlady (Margot Kidder) where she meets a Jamaican widower, Fish (James Earl Jones), who has recently been released from a mental institution despite his continued battles against unseen demons.

In the face of personal challenges and differences, the couple grows together and begins to discover new things about themselves and the nuances of love and happiness.

$12 ($11.40 cash at the door if available)