A provocative, non-preachy, vital and illuminating documentary with quietly powerful and haunting images.
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07/27/09
California Company Town (2009)
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Reviews Counted:5
Fresh:5
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Average Rating:8.3/10
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: Anthology is thrilled to present California Company Town, a film which casts a probing, clear-eyed gaze at the landscape of California towns built and abandoned by the industries that necessitated... [More]
Director: Lee Anne Schmitt
Reviews for California Company Town
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07/24/09
Top CriticA brilliant, haunting and informative expose' not to be missed and not to be forgotten at awards season!
07/23/09
[Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up.
07/23/09
Lee Anne Schmitt's simultaneously haunting and tiresome documentary is like a New Age western with its fond look backward and harsh criticism of the present.
07/23/09
Top CriticThe companies in Lee Anne Schmitt's elegy for California boom towns gone bust run the gamut from farming to logging to mining, but after a while, the towns themselves take on the same ghostly countenance.
07/21/09
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