Charles Burnett’s gently astonishing movie tells the stories of the people he knew in his Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts in the 1970s. It’s at the Gene Siskel Film Center for a ...

People looked after you. I grew up with people who were very gentle. There were the Watts riots when you couldn't walk down the street without police harassing you. Police would stop me and do ...

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