Indies on DVD: 'Killer of Sheep,' 'Hearts of Darkness,' 'Helvetica,' 'In Between Days'

Published: November 20, 2007, 10:05 am

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Filed under: Documentary, Drama, Foreign Language, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, New on DVD, Home Entertainment, Cinematical Indie, WarMy pick of the week is Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep. Our own Jeffrey M. Anderson declared: "There's no question that it belongs in the canon of greatest American movies." As he pointed out, though, the film "has perhaps been more written about and appreciated than actually seen." Now we can all see it. The two-disk special edition DVD from New Yorker Video includes an audio commentary by Burnett and Richard Peña, two versions of Burnett's feature film My Brother's Wedding, four shorts (three rediscovered and one new) and cast reunion video.Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse , directed by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper, stirred up controversy when Hickenlooper said that neither he nor Bahr were consulted on the DVD version of their documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now. Jeffrey Wells of

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