To Sleep with Anger

“I love To Sleep with Anger. I mean, it really taps at the core of African American surrealist imagery in a way that I love.”

Ayo Edebiri

Actor, Comedian

“Charles Burnett was a major influence in my life. What he does is so quirky and so brilliant that it defies your ability to replicate it.”

Carl Franklin

Director

“The title sequence of 'To Sleep with Anger' is ridiculously cool. It is just enthralling, exciting.”

Cauleen Smith

Director

“Every Burnett film has a sense of being lived in, but nothing feels staged. You can feel that intersection of American Black life and Italian neorealism and also the nouvelle vague. I can't think of anyone who's more masterly about that — unobtrusive, generous filmmaking — than Charles Burnett.”

Elvis Mitchell

Film Critic, Documentary Filmmaker