My Brother’s Wedding (1983)
4K Restoration @ Film Forum NYC
Directed by: Charles Burnett
Starring: Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett
In this tragicomic work of realism, Pierce Mundy (Everett Silas) is employed at his parents’ South Central Los Angeles dry cleaners with no prospects for the future—his childhood buddies are all in prison or dead. Pierce’s best friend Soldier (Ronnie Bell) is just getting out of jail. Pierce’s brother Wendell (Monte Easter), an up-and-coming lawyer, is busy planning his wedding to a snobbish upper-middle-class black woman named Sonia (Gaye Shannon-Burnett, who co-produced the film). Pierce’s pious, Bible-touting mother (Jessie Holmes) provides occasional comic relief but also a heartfelt moral backbone to the film, as she urges Pierce to accept his responsibility to his family.
In 1983, after many long months of shooting, Charles Burnett sent his rough-cut of My Brother’s Wedding to his producers. Ignoring his request to finish the editing of the film, the producers rushed it to a New York festival screening, where it received a mixed review from the New York Times. With distributors scared off, My Brother’s Wedding was tragically never released. Film critic Armond White called this “a catastrophic blow to the development of American popular culture.”
My Brother’s Wedding has been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, BAM/Pacific Film Archive at the University of California, Berkeley and Milestone.
If you’re lucky enough to be near NYC’s Film Forum you can catch a screening between 18 - 24 September.
Late Fame
TIFF Featured
Directed by: Kent Jones
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee, Edmund Donovan
An ageing man (Willem Dafoe) finds his artistic ambitions reawakened when he learns a group of young creatives admire the poetry he published decades earlier.
Part of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival http://tiff.net
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TIFF Featured
Directed by: Lan Hongchun
Starring: Li Sitong, Wang Yantong, Wu Shaoqing, Zheng Runqi, Wang Xiaohui
When a young man leaves home to find his estranged grandfather, he uncovers a series of letters that will reveal family secrets and change the course of all their lives.
Part of the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival http://tiff.net
Fall 2: Deadpoint
Directed by: The Spierig Brothers
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Euphoria - Behind the Scenes of Season 3
Cinematography & Editing
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