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Urbanscapes (2005)

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URBANSCAPES is an intimate portrait of the margins of urban America, a fresco of its forgotten corners whose voice has remained unheard for decades.The film takes place in four different cities, Chicago, Detroit, New York and Newark, and features a total of 6 different characters who have witnessed the dramatic transformation of their neighborhoods.The documentary opens as the personal obsession of a solitary photographer, Camilo J. Vergara, who has kept track of the fate of American cities for

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Directed By: Lorena Luciano

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Occasionally undercuts its own purpose by offering harshly minimalist, meticulously framed images -- underscored by everything from Mozart and Bach to Eminem and Motown -- that achieve, almost perversely, a stark, stripped-to-essentials splendor.

July 11, 2006 Full Review Source: Variety

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Joe Leydon

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The documentary Urbanscapes plants a camera in neighborhoods gone to seed, cultivating a bittersweet portrait of American ruin.

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Nathan Lee

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Urbanscapes analyzes urban blight as a recurring phenomenon, with economic, social, and moral dimensions.

July 7, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Dennis Lim

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The directors compromise a subtle and clever argument with a tacked-on discussion of the collapse of the Twin Towers.

October 21, 2006 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

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