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S. James Snyder Time Out [Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up. Rated: 4/5 Jul 23, 2009 Full Review Eric Monder Hollywood Reporter 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. Jul 23, 2009 Full Review Scott Foundas Village Voice The 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. Jul 21, 2009 Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru A provocative, non-preachy, vital and illuminating documentary with quietly powerful and haunting images. Rated: 8.65/10 Jul 27, 2009 Full Review Kam Williams Sly Fox A brilliant, haunting and informative expose' not to be missed and not to be forgotten at awards season! Rated: 4/4 Jul 23, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Beautiful and gently moving â" a glance at the disappearing company towns of middle-California. I saw Schmitt give a post-screening Viennale Q&A and thought there was no better comment on it than her own, "I mean, it's tedious, but not too tedious." It's slow, patient, and resigned. A fitting tribute to these long-gone places previously full of life. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Lee Anne Schmitt