Spike Lee ‘Hurricane Katrina’ documentary on youtube
It's Friday, so i'm mainly going to post stories that will waste a lot of time, and this is a great one. Why not Spend your afternoon watching the new HBO Spike Lee Documentary.
I listened to a radio interview not long ago with Spike Lee (BBC Radio 5, you can probably still find it as a download on their site, if anyone cares) where he was on to talk about 'The Inside Man', but ended up basically saying that he made the film to fund a documentary he was working on.
Here's the lowdown from the HBO site…
As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans.
Find the links to the documentary pieces here
Check out the official HBO site here
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November 26th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Personally I think that the man, Spike Lee is a genius. I love anything by him and have recently purchased a copy of his film Bamboozled on DVD (knowing that it will most probably never make on BBC television). When I watched the film I shed tears throughout. It’s a portrayal of an appalling injustice and fundamentally a tragedy. I think people who think that it was a comedy missed the whole undercurrent intellectual message of that very important film. Bamboozled, together with Malcolm X, and Mo’ Better Blues are his best films to date.
I live in London and have yet to see ‘When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts. I am waiting to see if it is released on DVD so I can support the great man.
Take care
Isaac