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Charles Burnett is a great American director getting a long-due rediscovery with the recent nationwide release of “Killer of Sheep,” and its subversive ways with story are also present in the later gem of cinema povera, “My Brother’s Wedding,” shown here for the first time in a director’s cut. (Burnett never considered the film finished. and cut it down from a cut of 116 minutes.) Burnett is a master of directing nonprofessionals, and the acting in this 1983 slice of South Central Los Angeles life ably conveys the pressures behind the decision whether to stay in the old neighborhood or move on to better economic opportunities elsewhere. One word I can apply to Burnett’s work that’s rare enough: “Decency.” He and his characters are amply drawn, in sorrow and in hope. 87m. (Ray Pride)
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