When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (3-Disc)
Spike Lee's award-winning documentary follows the events that preceded and followed Hurricane Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans in 2005.
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DVD-R Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Run Time: 4 hours, 16 minutes
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 13, 2016
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: HBO Archive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Spike Lee | |
Edited by | Sam Pollard, Geta Gandbhir & Nancy Novack | |
Composition by | Terence Blanchard | |
Produced by | Sam Pollard & Spike Lee | |
Director of Photography: | Cliff Charles | |
Executive Production by | Sheila Nevins |
Entertainment Reviews:
Raw and painful-it got across the pure horror of the aftermath of the storm...
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The New York Review of Books
Arguably Lee's best effort since Do the Right Thing.
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Oregonian
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Spike Lee's political statement is one of humanism, and the result is his most potent work in years.
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Slant Magazine
... masterful crosscutting mix of past and present, of authority and anguish, of ass-covering officialdom and angry dispossession, of sick-city misery and soul-stirring music...
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New York Magazine/Vulture
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Do the flaws diminish Levees? To a degree. But the story Lee tells is so powerful, so important, that the lapses aren't a reason not to pay heed to what this passionate film has to say.
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San Jose Mercury News
Surely the most magnificent and large-souled record of a great American tragedy ever put on film.
New Yorker
Rating: 4/4 --
The same didactic instincts that sometimes mar Lee's fictional filmmaking serve him well as a documentarian and eulogist.
Globe and Mail
Description by OLDIES.com:
One year after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans, director Spike Lee presented a four-part chronicle recounting, through words and images, one of our country's most profound natural disasters. In addition to revisiting the hours leading up to the arrival of Katrina, a Category 5 hurricane before it hit the coast of Louisiana, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts tells the personal stories of those who lived to tell about it, at the same time exploring the underbelly of a nation where the divide along race and class lines has never been more pronounced.
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