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California Company Town

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S. James Snyder Time Out 07/23/2009
4/5
[Director] Schmitt wisely allows the images to speak loudest -- a silent, sobering portrait of what happens after the well dries up. Go to Full Review Eric Monder The Hollywood Reporter 07/23/2009
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. Go to Full Review Scott Foundas Village Voice 07/21/2009
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. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 07/27/2009
8.65/10
A provocative, non-preachy, vital and illuminating documentary with quietly powerful and haunting images. Go to Full Review Kam Williams Sly Fox 07/23/2009
4/4
A brilliant, haunting and informative expose' not to be missed and not to be forgotten at awards season! Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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10/28/2011 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. See more Read all reviews
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Lee Anne Schmitt

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Ronald Reagan

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Cesar Chavez

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Director
Lee Anne Schmitt