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Atom EgoyanMarch 12, 1995
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Hal HartleyJanuary 14, 1995
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Charles BurnettJanuary 8, 1995
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Charles BurnettJanuary 7, 1995
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Chuck JonesDecember 18, 1994
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Chuck JonesDecember 17, 1994
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Jennifer Jason LeighNovember 23, 1994
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Arthur PennNovember 11, 1994
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Patrizia von BrandensteinOctober 15, 1994
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David CronenbergJanuary 11, 1992
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Stan BrakhageMarch 9, 1991
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Mike NicholsMarch 1, 1990
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Ken JacobsNovember 12, 1989
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Michael PowellAugust 13, 1989
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Sidney PoitierMarch 1, 1989
Charles Burnett January 7, 1995
The pioneering African-American director Charles Burnett was a film student at UCLA when he made Killer of Sheep (1977), a powerful independent film that combines blues-inspired lyricism and neo-realism in its drama of an inner-city slaughterhouse worker and his family. Killer of Sheep, now regarded as a landmark in American independent cinema, was part of a small group of films that became known as "The L.A. Rebellion." During a retrospective of his films at the Museum of the Moving Image, he introduced a screening of Killer of Sheep and then participated in a wide-ranging discussion moderated by culture critic Greg Tate.