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DISASTERS.(When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Spike Lee's documentary about Hurricane Katrina)
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In the course of Spike Lee's enormous documentary about Hurricane Katrina and the city of New Orleans, "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts," the director shows us a curious funeral on the city's streets. In broad daylight, in the midst of smashed homes, a group of men dressed in formal black-and-white accompany a horse-drawn hearse that bears a casket marked "Katrina." Walking in front of the hearse, musicians from the Hot 8 Brass Band play a traditional hymn. They play it slowly, however--so slowly that the "funeral" is as much an act of derision as of mourning. At the end of the film, Lee returns to the ...
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- Newspaper article from: Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) August 21, 2006 700+ words
...portrayed in When the Levees Broke will haunt viewers...documentary, Lee films New Orleans trumpeter Terence...replayed in When the Levees Broke, Lee's anger...disproportionately, When the Levees Broke is very much...Lee depicts a New Orleans in which ...
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- Newspaper article from: Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL) August 21, 2006 700+ words
...many people from New Orleans sound off and...because When the Levees Broke rarely showcases...staggering montage of New Orleans flood damage set...frustrated people of New Orleans, a city fighting...filmmaking. When the Levees Broke doesn't have...
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- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) August 16, 2006 700+ words
...hard look at New Orleans' worst of times...s "When the Levees Broke: A Requiem...When the Levees Broke" has a number...inept. Many New Orleans residents still...for "When the Levees Broke." New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin...
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- Magazine article from: Multichannel News Vernadakis, George Umstead, R. Thomas August 21, 2006 700+ words
...Thomas Umstead When the Levees Broke Home Box Office Monday...Lee's epic When The Levees Broke is an exhaustive 'film document' about New Orleans before, during and after...and post-Katrina New Orleans accompanied by the plaintive...
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts; HBO.(Special)
- Magazine article from: TelevisionWeek June 4, 2007 700+ words
...amp; a Mule Filmworks, "When the Levees Broke'' went into production almost immediately after the storm hit New Orleans at the end of August 2005. By October...he said. CAPTION(S): "When the Levees Broke"
- When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Sicinski, Michael December 22, 2006 700+ words
...HBO premiered When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four...strong auteur, When the Levees Broke was a project Lee sought...shattered lives of many in New Orleans and surrounding areas...yesterday. When the Levees Broke is a one-year anniversary...
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- Magazine article from: Jet August 21, 2006 700+ words
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. One year later...Lee's epic documentary When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts, deals...s catastrophic passage through New Orleans, (Acts I and II, Monday, August...
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- Magazine article from: Jet Flanagan, Sylvia P. December 4, 2006 700+ words
* When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts: A Spike Lee film released on DVD, this documentary is a portrait of New Orleans in the wake of destruction from Hurricane Katrina and focuses on the events that preceded and followed Katrina...