New Trailer for Charles Burnett’s ‘My Brother’s Wedding’ Restoration​

“Ain’t your brother getting married this Saturday?” Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for the 4K restoration of the American indie film My Brother’s Wedding, the second feature film from acclaimed filmmaker Charles Burnett that originally debuted in 1983. This is his follow-up to seminal classic Killer of Sheep (which had its own 4K restoration re-release last year), and this one actually premiered at the 1983 Toronto Film Festival years ago. Another film about the local community in South Central, Los Angeles. A man who has struggled personally has conflicts with his upwardly mobile lawyer brother and his brother’s well to-do fiancée and is reluctant to be the best man at their wedding. This stars Everett Silas, Jessie Holmes, Gaye Shannon-Burnett, and Ronnie Bell. Kino Lorber & Milestone Films are proud to release a new 4K digital restoration of My Brother’s Wedding. The second feature from Burnett, who served as the director, producer, director of photography, and screenwriter, will open in theaters in NYC at Film Forum this September before expanding to select cities nationwide this fall. I think it’s essential for any and every cinephile to take the time to watch Charles Burnett’s films – even if they’re from a whole other time. Enjoy.

Here’s the new 4K restoration trailer for Charles Burnett’s film My Brother’s Wedding, from YouTube:

South Central, LA, the early 1980s. Pierce Mundy (Everett Silas) is always on the move without ever really getting anywhere – kept busy by his parents, their dry cleaning shop, friends & neighbors. His childhood buddies are all in prison or dead and his best friend Soldier (Ronnie Bell) is just getting out of jail. Pierce’s brother Wendell (Monte Easter), on the other hand, is an up-and-coming lawyer set to marry an upper-middle-class woman (Gaye Shannon-Burnett). Pierce is entirely lacking in ambition, to the consternation of his Bible-thumping mother (Jessie Holmes), yet he is an integral part of life in the neighborhood. When Soldier is killed in a car accident, Pierce’s conflicting obligations to family and friends manifest in the choice between his brother’s wedding and his best friend’s funeral, both falling on the same day. Charles Burnett’s second feature after Killer of Sheep is a tragicomic classic of New Black Cinema in which lived realities are shown in even the smallest of roles, complex & attentive. His wanderings reveal a young man and a local community defined in equal measure by stagnation, resignation, resistance, and joie de vivre.

My Brother’s Wedding is written and directed by American indie filmmaker Charles Burnett, his second feature film at the time after Killer of Sheep (1978) and before To Sleep with Anger (1990). Also produced by Burnett along with Gaye Shannon-Burnett. This film originally premiered in 1983 Toronto Film Festival and also the 1984 US Film Festival (before it became Sundance). Kino Lorber will re-release Burnett’s Killer of Sheep 4K restoration in select US theaters starting on September 18th, 2026. Info on their official site.

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