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Article: A filmmaker's fury: In 'When the Levees Broke,' Spike Lee powerfully portrays New Orleans after Katrina and angrily assigns blame for the nation's sluggish response.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- August 21, 2006
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Byline: David Zurawik
Aug. 21--Each television season, one or two productions cut through the clutter of mediocre programming with a power and resonance that makes them seem almost too good for TV. Last September's PBS premiere of Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home, a soaring biography of Bob Dylan held that distinction. The season opener of Fox's 24, with the shocking assassination of President David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), earned it last January. Now comes Spike Lee's documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, airing tonight and tomorrow at 9 on HBO. The four-hour, two-night meditation on Hurricane Katrina is a chronicle of pain and ...
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Article: WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS
Pittsburgh City Paper;
February 11, 2009 ;
299 words
...WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. What happened when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the surrounding area, in 2005, seems too large to document, but Spike Lee gives it a go in his searing, furious and heartbreaking ...
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