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Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
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An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
Actors:
Gary Williams,
Lisa Phillips,
Henry Keith Watson,
Kee Ha,
Jung Lee,
Bobby Green,
Daryl Gates,
Tom Elfmont,
Tim Goldman,
Henry King,
Donnell Alexander,
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Gary Williams
Lisa Phillips
Henry Keith Watson
Kee Ha
Jung Lee
Bobby Green
Daryl Gates
30 August 1926, Highland Park, California, USA
Tom Elfmont
Tim Goldman
Henry King
Donnell Alexander
July 30, 1966 in Sandusky, Ohio, USA
Genre:
Documentary
Country:
United States
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October 15, 2017
This long documentary (two hours, 24 minutes) takes us back 10 years before the L.A. riots and shows us events which led up to them. The film pays particular attention to the relationships between police, blacks and the Korean American communities.
May 06, 2017
'Let It Fall''s construction is shrewd: it moves fast from the verdict into the riot, far faster than the other films, but effectively dramatizes the speed with which the conflict escalated.
August 10, 2017
Not wasting a minute of its two-and-a-half-hour running time, this remarkable documentary echoes O.J: Made in America by examining the Los Angeles riots.
April 26, 2017
Wrenching, must-see docu probes racial violence in L.A.
April 20, 2017
Teeming with acts both heroic and reprehensible, John Ridley's wrenchingly humane documentary, "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992," reveals the Los Angeles riots as the almost inevitable culmination of a decade of heightening racial tensions.
August 30, 2017
What makes the astoundingly edited "Let It Fall" so powerful is that it's an oral history, told through many angles: residents, police officers, victims, families of the victims, witnesses, jurors and a host of others.
April 20, 2017
The strength of "Let It Fall" is in its remarkable contemporary interviews, compelling both for the people recorded and the way the conversations are allowed to unfold.
April 21, 2017
Laying a groundwork of personal testimony and archival assemblage that tells the story of what Ridley calls "the uprising," there's directness when needed, detail (often horrific) when appropriate, and complexity where least expected.
October 02, 2017
An essential documentary that covers the heightened racial tensions in LA from 1982-1992.
April 21, 2017
Juxtaposing footage of the actual events with the narrative of each of their storytellers, Let It Fall does its part to maintain a sense of urgency around a narrative that still needs to be discussed, interrogated, and accounted for.
September 19, 2017
[Let it Fall] accomplishes what straightforward nonfiction narrative can do in the best of circumstance.
April 27, 2017
It's like looking into the heart of all those single flames that made the conflagration.
