Chavez Ravine2005
A Los Angeles Story
Recognition
Poster & Images
Member Reviews (4)
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Lazy-! Could the filmmaker do any less research ?
I read the picture book on which the film is based. No one cared about a bunch of campesinos. Frank Wilkinson was a great fighter for civil liberties.
A documentary about LA-power-structure duplicity in dealings with a small Latino community. But it's also a documentary made real by the extraordinary, accidental photographs of everyday life in the community, snapped in the late 1940's, but not published until 6 decades later. And this tragedy is only a symptom of the virulent, scorched-earth, anti-Communist opposition to federal low income housing programs. Covered in 23 minutes.
Very good. I had often heard Mexican Americans in Los Angeles mention this event, but I never had a full understanding of all that was lost.