When the Levees Broke
August 29th, 2006
Spike Lee’s 4-1/2 hour Katrina documentary is an absolutely essential document, gutwrenchingly sad, surprisingly in-depth even at this length (I didn’t know about Louisiana’s lost most of its oil revenue because the drilling platforms are more than 3 miles out), and–of course–infuriating as all hell.
Some links: Matt Zoller Seitz spends a lot of inches defending the film from the kind of complaints this bullshit New York Times piece raises. Der Spiegel gets it. Denby. Stephen Holden. Brownie talks. The GOP Has More to Rebuild Than New Orleans. And: the Yes Men.
