Louisiana Story
Academy Award nominated classic docu-drama of how a Cajun boy's life changes when oil drillers enter the Bayou. A true work of art.
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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 18 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Released: April 29, 2008
- Originally Released: 1948
- Label: Alpha Video
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | E. Bienvenu, C.P. Guedry, Joseph Boudreaux, Lionel Le Blanc & Frank Hardy | |
| Directed by | Robert J. Flaherty | |
| Edited by | Helen van Dongen | |
| Music by | Virgil Thomson | |
| Screenwriting by | Frances H. Flaherty & Robert J. Flaherty | |
| Composition by | Virgil Thomson | |
| Produced by | Robert J. Flaherty | |
| Director of Photography: | Richard Leacock |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2.5/4 --
As adept as it is in photographing nature, Louisiana Story is weak in capturing culture.
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TV Guide
Rating: 5/5 --
One of all time best, and one of earliest, documentaries; with Robert Flaherty's deft style.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Louisiana Story may be Flaherty's greatest work.
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Combustible Celluloid
...it's the virtuosic craftsmanship that makes Louisiana Story a genre classic.
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DVDJournal.com
Flaherty's narrative may seem slightly naive; but his vision of a child's myth-world, and the oilmen's intrusion and acceptance into it, is perhaps his greatest achievement.
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Time Out
Rating: 4/5 --
Dated, but it looks great.
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Filmcritic.com
A powerful, swooning visualization of a wilderness childhood.
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New Yorker
Description by OLDIES.com:
The innocent, routine life of Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour, a young Cajun boy raised on the Louisiana Bayou, is forever changed when his family allows an oil derrick to be erected in their area of the swamp.
Louisiana Story was Robert J. Flaherty's final and most controversial film - mired in suspicion about its praise for the minimal ecological effect of oil drilling on the environment, while being sponsored by the oil companies. Nominated for Best Story as well as for Best Picture, Louisiana Story won Best Documentary in the 1949 British Academy Awards and a spot on the New York Times' Ten Best Films list that same year. Virgil Thomson's compelling score won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Musical Composition.
Awards:
- 1949 Pulitzer Prize - Music Composition
- 1949 Academy Award Nominee - Best Writing
- 1949 British Academy of Film and Television Arts - Best Documentary
- 1949 Writer's Guild of America - WGA Award Nominee
Product Description:
A Cajun boy living in the Marshlands of Petit Anse Bayou observes the growing industrialization of his state as he watches oil drillers at work in this production filmed entirely in Louisiana. Academy Award Nominations: Best Motion Picture Story.
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Production Notes:
- THE LOUISIANA STORY, Robert Flaherty's final film, was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1994.
- Virgil Thomson's musical score received a Pulitzer Prize.
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