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When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006)
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"I remember ,back then (i nearly said,"back in the day") Spike Lee seemed to do no wrong for me..He was like a black, politically active Woody Allen.The directing style was immediate,broke the "forth wall" continually,and the polemic came with a heavy dose of cynical humour...how could i disagree with any of it? Remember this is when HipHop was the cutting edge political music. Public Enemy may have been the band featured,but it's equally a visual manifestation of the music of Gil-Scott Heron.. i enjoyed "Inside Man" ,but it was only with "When the Levees Broke" that Spike went back to the top of my list again... "
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"Prolific filmmaker Spike Lee was honored at the Charles Guggenheim Symposium on June 19th. Clips from Lee's documentary work were played including 4 Little Girls, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, We Was Robbed and Jim Brown: All American. And a preview of Lee's upcoming narrative feature, Miracle at St. Anna (In Theater Sept. 26), was also screened. Denver Post film critic Lisa Kennedy moderated a discussion with Lee. I've read a lot on other blogs that Lee came across as arrogant, but I thought he was just responding honestly to Kennedy, who for the most part, seemed to know her Lee film history well, but often times became redundant in her questioning and struggled to come up with questions. Below are highlights of the opening remarks and some of the questions asked during the discussion.Guggenheim Symposium - Spike LeeSilverdocs AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Fes "
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"Getting an audience to listen to a message that is critical of the Iraq War is not hard. Political venues, water coolers, and street corners are full of disgust for the Bush Administration and countless citizens worldwide have Inauguration Day 2009 circled on their calendars. The difficult task is presenting a balanced and informed yet still passionate cross-examination of this red-hot topic. In a volatile, confusing time, Charles Ferguson’s new documentary No End In Sight is well aware of this challenge and ambitiously attacks this decade’s defining dividing point with the necessary goods.In order to present the argument at hand, one must go back to the beginning to see where things went awry. Ferguson hinges his argument on four major points: the decision not to instill Martial Law after the fall of Baghdad; Paul Bremer’s subsequent decision to disassemble the Iraqi military; the poor planning of the amount of American troops needed to contain possible insur ... "
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"Signed to HBO Films and to be screened on the premium channel on Aug. 25, "The Black List" is a series of talks with 21 of the most well-known contemporary African-Americans. Consisting of nothing but interviews, the occasional archival photo, a steady muted string soundtrack and inter-segment fade-outs to pastels, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' project features a consistent barrage of wit and wisdom from these famous names, as interviewed by an unseen, but clearly inspirational, Elvis Mitchell.Beginning with former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (who knew he was black?) commenting that he appears as an entry in a book on influential Jews, the filmmakers talk with famous athletes, politicians, writers, dancers and lawyers about how they view the state of the black celebrity by weaving in touching personal anecdotes. Greenfield-Sanders noted the timeliness of screening the film on the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death and in the midst of Barack Obama's presidential ... "
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"Spike Lee's documentary When The Levees Broke is a masterfully empathetic look at the events leading up to and especially following the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans. Crystal clear stock footage meets grainy home video and shots of the aftermath and allows the informative movie to proceed effortlessly, though not without pulling the viewer along in the flood waters.Lee's mark as a filmmaker is all over the work. There is no way to identify Bob Dylan: No Direction Home as a Martin Scorsese film, but Lee manages to combine several of his trademarked cinematography cornerstones with straightforward interviewing techniques to craft a distinct Spike Lee Joint. Perhaps Jean-Luc Godard put a similar unique stamp on Sympathy for the Devil, but I have yet to see that work.The interviews with the survivors are informative and heartbreaking. Their emotions are incredibly real and all are entirely critical of President Bush and the U.S. government's failure to supply im ... "
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"Several blurbs of note to report in the documentary world this late Thursday: ***Anthony Kaufman has the news that Errol Morris is blogging for the New York Times. Kaufman interprets Morris' first entry--a long consideration of photography, truth, interpretation and meaning--as "a sneak peak into what I expect are the theoretical underpinnings" of Morris' upcoming Abu Ghraib doc, Standard Operating Procedure. ***This is not a TV blog, so we won't waste time making obscene hand gestures about most of the Emmy nominations. However, it's worth noting that Spike Lee's Hurricane Katrina doc When the Levees Broke picked up several nods, as did two recent festival hits: Rory Kennedy's Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, and Stanley Nelson's Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People's Temple. A.J. Schnack has further details. ***
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