Probably one of the most important films of the 21st century....

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...so far.

Spike Lee has the ability to bring strong men to their knees. An absolute indictment of the incompetence and malfeasance of the Little Monkey administration.

Film on a City’s Despair Offers Lessons in Humility
By GEORGE VECSEY
The Knicks remember the sound when the lights came up — five minutes of silence, broken only by one man crying: the filmmaker himself.

Spike Lee recalls it differently. He had chosen the segment about a mother recounting the death of her 5-year-old daughter in the flood after Hurricane Katrina. To view it again, in a room with his beloved basketball team, induced tears and even sobs, but Spike Lee wants to set the record straight. “Everybody was crying,” he said.

Everybody ought to cry after they see “When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts,” the powerful HBO documentary about the federally bungled disaster in the Gulf states in August and September 2005.

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In the film, after several hours of viewing inept public officials, we meet Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré, who was the commander of relief operations in New Orleans and essentially the New Orleans military governor.

Honoré strides the damp streets of New Orleans, bluntly ordering soldiers and police officers to lower their weapons, and convoys of aid began to trickle in.

Finally, finally, we get a glimpse of a public official who reminds Americans of what they used to think they were — the compassionate liberators of World War II.

Entire article here (subscription required): http://select.nytimes.com/2006/10/29/sports/basketball/29vecsey.html?pagewanted=print

[Lefty48197]

1. This movie got a HUGE endorsement from Erik Smith

the morning news anchor for channel 7 in Detroit. I have a ton of respect for him, and as soon as I heard the endorsement, I knew this film was a must see.

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2. Agreed - K&R n/t