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While Inside Man is "a deft, taut heist picture," When the Levees Broke "finds Lee moving from strength to strength, but although the seething anger in Levees is quite palpable, like its predecessor, it eschews extravagant stylistic touches or the Brechtian modernism of Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever.
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Sunday evening conversations, strangely called Levees, his Lordship addressed me, 'We have all been reading your travels, Mr. Boswell.'
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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It's very much an emotional portrait, not a dry recitation of facts, and so "Levees" features punchy interviews with survivors, local politicians, and celebrities like Sean Penn, Harry Belafonte, Wynton Marsalis, and others with a deep connection to New Orleans.
John Farr: Is the Plight of New Orleans Still Timely Enough for Americans to Bother About? 2008
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Working on "Levees" was extremely hard because, you know, I kept looking at these horrible images, you know, everyday.
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Mansfield’s formal Sunday evening conversations, strangely called Levees, his Lordship addressed me, ‘We have all been reading your travels, Mr. Boswell.’
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Spike Lee rewrote ending to 'Levees' follow-up when BP's oil spilled
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"Levees," will be screened at the New Orleans event.
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Spike Lee rewrote ending to 'Levees' follow-up when BP's oil spilled
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Spike Lee rewrote ending to 'Levees' follow-up when BP's oil spilled
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Working on "Levees" and now "Creek" has exposed Lee to "the culture of that region, exposed me to the great resilience of these people who time after time get knocked down, get knocked down, get knocked down," he said.
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