Katrina, Civil Rights and parenting. Parker lived it all. Marvelous DVD with BONUS features
My fellow Amazon reviewer David Crumm has already written a detailed review of this wonder Jonathan Demme, based on his viewing on PBS (It aired this past summer as part of the P.O.V. documentary series.). So I won't repeat much of what David wrote; I agree with it. Rather, I'll add a few comments of my own and discuss the HOME DVD version of the release.
This has been sort of a "Jonathan Demme Week" for me, having just finished watching (and posting my Amazon review) of his "performance documentary", "Neal Young Journeys" about the rock star. Demme is known for directing three types of films: narrative fiction ("Silence of the Lambs", "Swing Shift"), performance docs (the aforementioned Young film- plus two other Young docs; "Stop Making Sense" (Talking Heads), and biographical docs ("My Cousin Bobby", "The Man from Plains" (Jimmy Carter). Demme excels at all three.
When Demme - with the help of the widow of NOLa pop music icon Ernie-K-Doe - chose the...
Meet One of New Orleans' Most Courageous Families
(Although the film is only available for pre-order on DVD, this review is based on the PBS airing of the documentary in September 2012.)
The 2005 devastation of Hurricane Katrina is one of the most popular American sagas of tragedy and survival. Evidence of that is the highly praised HBO series TREME about New Orleans families rebuilding their lives after Katrina. In addition to various film and TV glimpses of post-Katrina life, there are books, too. That list includes Dick Wolff's moving The Fight for Home: How (Parts of) New Orleans Came Back, which also tells Carolyn Parker's story.
In the documentary and the book, Carolyn Parker lives through a gripping, years-long odyssey to hold her historic home together in one of the poorest sections of the infamous Lower Ninth Ward. Wolff not only wrote the book about Carolyn and...
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