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The Pros and Cons of Talking-Head Documentaries From Errol Morris to Raymond Depardon by Irina Leimbacher • Film Comment, February 18, 2009
The end result is refreshing, timely, and smartly provacative... The filmmakers' exposure of their vulnerability seems to go hand in hand with the willingness of others to reveal their own, and this emerges as a core strength of the film. |
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Downtown Phoenix Screening of by Lyle Plotcher • Downtown Phoenix Journal, August 30, 2008
"’The Axe in the Attic’ is one of the most important, engrossing and compelling documentaries we’ve screened in our 6 year history. It is the best documentary of 2008."
-Steve Weiss, Executive Director, No Festival Required LLC |
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The Axe In The Attic by Roger Ebert • Chicago Sun-Times, August 27, 2008
"...this is a shattering documentary. The witnesses in it mourn the loss of their homes and possessions, but also their loss of a city." ★★★ |
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Full Frame 2008: Two Katrina Films Provide Stark Contrast of Methods and Ethics of Nonfiction Filmmaking by AJ Schnack • All These Wonderful Things, April 5, 2008
DURHAM, NC -- Friday at the 11th Full Frame Film Festival in Durham, North Carolina has come to a close, with perhaps the most interesting contrast provided by two very different films about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. |
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Humanity among Katrina's destruction by Ty Burr • Boston Globe, January 16, 2008
The title of "The Axe in the Attic," the documentary that launches the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at the Museum of Fine Arts tonight, refers to a peculiar habit many New Orleans residents picked up over the years. |
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Casting ballots: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival on the campaign trail by Peter Keough • Boston Phoenix, January 8, 2008
At first, THE AXE IN THE ATTIC seems self-indulgent, dwelling on the filmmakers’ own feelings as they descend deeper into the nightmare. But their awkwardness and their repartee before the unexpected, overwhelming, and downright weird experiences they encounter amuse, move, and arouse sympathy. |
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Never-Ending Storm by Lynn Tryba • NewEnglandFilm.com, January 1, 2008
Some people think the Hurricane Katrina story has been told already. Lucia Small and Ed Pincus’s latest documentary, The Axe in the Attic, screening this month at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival in Boston, reminds viewers the story is far from over... |
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THE AXE IN THE ATTIC (Ed Pincus and Lucia Small, US) by Livia Bloom • CINEMA SCOPE Magazine, December 1, 2007
A living-room sofa balanced on the roof of a truck; a school bus stopped by a massive barge; a pair of ranch-style homes entwined. Startling physical juxtapositions abound in THE AXE IN THE ATTIC, the new documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by Ed Pincus and Lucia Small, contributing to what is one of the most challenging and unsettling American films of the year. |
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Refocused: Pioneering filmmaker Ed Pincus returns to the field by Joanna Weiss • Boston Globe, October 6, 2007
The story sounds like fiction from a screenwriter's imagination: Groundbreaking filmmaker abandons his career to protect his family from a madman, reinvents himself as a farmer in a remote Vermont village, doesn't make a movie for a quarter century. And then comes back. |
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