Chicago – Some of the best documentaries are spawned directly from the raw outage of a filmmaker intent on sharing vital truths with the unenlightened public. Every frame is fraught with a sense of urgency that keeps viewers on the edge of their seat much like an engrossing popcorn thriller. Yet great passion alone does not make for great cinema.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
“The Big Uneasy” is a rather unfortunate assemblage of excellent footage in need of a stronger editor, writer and director. The layers of muck raked in by this film are entirely convincing and deeply infuriating, but they have been thrust onto the screen in jarringly artless fashion by Harry Shearer, a wonderful actor and humorist whose heart is obviously in the right place. He admits in the film’s production notes that he made “Uneasy” in a short period of time in order for it to be completed by the fifth anniversary of the flood.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
“The Big Uneasy” is a rather unfortunate assemblage of excellent footage in need of a stronger editor, writer and director. The layers of muck raked in by this film are entirely convincing and deeply infuriating, but they have been thrust onto the screen in jarringly artless fashion by Harry Shearer, a wonderful actor and humorist whose heart is obviously in the right place. He admits in the film’s production notes that he made “Uneasy” in a short period of time in order for it to be completed by the fifth anniversary of the flood.
- 8/16/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: Harry Shearer
Featuring: Maria Garzino, Ivor van Heerden and Robert Bea
Funnyman Harry Shearer sheds his usual sarcasm to expose issues preceding and following Hurricane Katrina that suggest the devastating storm may not be the natural disaster we believe. Considered one of the deadliest cataclysms in American history, Katrina began in the Bahamas, tracked through Florida and hit the port city of New Orleans as a category 3 hurricane on August 29, 2005. It was claimed that approximately 1,837 died in the storm, though many have never been recovered, and destruction to real estate reached well beyond $80 billion. To this day, many of the city’s residents remain displaced and uncertain about their future.
To structure his argument, Shearer focuses his attention on the Army Corps of Engineers and three whistleblowers who exposed the government agency’s possible negligence prior to the disaster: Maria Garzino,...
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: Harry Shearer
Featuring: Maria Garzino, Ivor van Heerden and Robert Bea
Funnyman Harry Shearer sheds his usual sarcasm to expose issues preceding and following Hurricane Katrina that suggest the devastating storm may not be the natural disaster we believe. Considered one of the deadliest cataclysms in American history, Katrina began in the Bahamas, tracked through Florida and hit the port city of New Orleans as a category 3 hurricane on August 29, 2005. It was claimed that approximately 1,837 died in the storm, though many have never been recovered, and destruction to real estate reached well beyond $80 billion. To this day, many of the city’s residents remain displaced and uncertain about their future.
To structure his argument, Shearer focuses his attention on the Army Corps of Engineers and three whistleblowers who exposed the government agency’s possible negligence prior to the disaster: Maria Garzino,...
- 5/23/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: Harry Shearer
Featuring: Maria Garzino, Ivor van Heerden and Robert Bea
Funnyman Harry Shearer sheds his usual sarcasm to expose issues preceding and following Hurricane Katrina that suggest the devastating storm may not be the natural disaster we believe. Considered one of the deadliest cataclysms in American history, Katrina began in the Bahamas, tracked through Florida and hit the port city of New Orleans as a category 3 hurricane on August 29, 2005. It was claimed that approximately 1,837 died in the storm, though many have never been recovered, and destruction to real estate reached well beyond $80 billion. To this day, many of the city’s residents remain displaced and uncertain about their future.
To structure his argument, Shearer focuses his attention on the Army Corps of Engineers and three whistleblowers who exposed the government agency’s possible negligence prior to the disaster: Maria Garzino,...
(May 2011)
Directed/Written by: Harry Shearer
Featuring: Maria Garzino, Ivor van Heerden and Robert Bea
Funnyman Harry Shearer sheds his usual sarcasm to expose issues preceding and following Hurricane Katrina that suggest the devastating storm may not be the natural disaster we believe. Considered one of the deadliest cataclysms in American history, Katrina began in the Bahamas, tracked through Florida and hit the port city of New Orleans as a category 3 hurricane on August 29, 2005. It was claimed that approximately 1,837 died in the storm, though many have never been recovered, and destruction to real estate reached well beyond $80 billion. To this day, many of the city’s residents remain displaced and uncertain about their future.
To structure his argument, Shearer focuses his attention on the Army Corps of Engineers and three whistleblowers who exposed the government agency’s possible negligence prior to the disaster: Maria Garzino,...
- 5/23/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
If you don’t recognise the name Harry Shearer, you should at least recognise his voice… or one of his voices, as a long running cast member of much loved television show The Simpsons. You may also know him from “mockumentaries” such as the quite legendary This Is Spinal Tap, and A Mighty Wind (which is well worth a look if you haven’t seen it). This time, Harry writes and directs in his first foray into documentary making.
In The Big Uneasy, Shearer takes us through the build up to the devastating Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans on August 30th, 2005. He doesn’t dwell on the aftermath as many other documentaries have done, but on the processes and institutions involved in defending New Orleans from such a severe storm. Or not, as the case may be.
He looks at the Army Corps of Engineers, a faction of the...
In The Big Uneasy, Shearer takes us through the build up to the devastating Hurricane Katrina which hit New Orleans on August 30th, 2005. He doesn’t dwell on the aftermath as many other documentaries have done, but on the processes and institutions involved in defending New Orleans from such a severe storm. Or not, as the case may be.
He looks at the Army Corps of Engineers, a faction of the...
- 9/17/2010
- by Cheryl Carter
- FilmShaft.com
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