California Company Town

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2008

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S. James Snyder

Time Out

Jul 23, 2009

4/5

[Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up.

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Eric Monder

The Hollywood Reporter

Jul 23, 2009

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.

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Scott Foundas

Village Voice

Jul 21, 2009

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.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Jul 27, 2009

8.65/10

A provocative, non-preachy, vital and illuminating documentary with quietly powerful and haunting images.

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Kam Williams

Sly Fox

Jul 23, 2009

4/4

A brilliant, haunting and informative expose' not to be missed and not to be forgotten at awards season!

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Oct 28, 2011

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.

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