Film: When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Directed by Spike Lee. If you haven't seen this yet, check it out. You can still donate through The Network For Good at the HBO website. See Stephen Holden's review from The New York Times.
It isn’t the painful recapitulation of the incompetence, indifference and confusion in high places that makes Spike Lee’s epic documentary “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts” a wrenching experience. What breaks your heart is the film’s accumulated firsthand stories of New Orleans residents who lost everything in the flood after Hurricane Katrina, and the dismaying conclusion that a year after the disaster, the broken city has been largely abandoned to fend for itself. Continue Reading...
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