Dont Worry Honey, I Live Here DVD $8
DVD includes three bonus features: Second Line Sunday, New Orleans Jazz Funeral and You & Me. Also includes audio commentary.
Review from Film Threat Magazine by Phil Hall...
"Don't Worry Honey, I Live Here: How Locals Celebrate Mardi Gras" provides a record of the Big Easy's most famous event in the years prior to Hurricane Katrina. With footage shot between 2001 and 2003, the film provides a glimpse of the raucous, rude and wonderfully hedonistic excess of the Mardi Gras festivities. As presented in this film, there appeared to have been three different Mardi Gras celebrations: a fairly respectable and conventional parade complete with marching bands and celebrities on floats (Jason Alexander can be briefly glimpsed throwing beads from a passing float). Then there are two distinctive neighborhood free-for-alls - one for the white folks, one for the black folks. The lack of integration is never overtly commented upon, but it is impossible not to notice.
The film is rich with plenty of kooky characters, including a pair of unicyclists staging jousting matches on a street while a woman with ten-gallon hat full of dollars circles their action ("We're collecting donations for medical bills," she explains, glancing over her shoulder at a fallen unicycle warrior).
Also, there are more than a few inebriates trying and failing to tell funny stories and more than a few street corner ministers trying to save souls amid the revelry. Neither of those camps appear very successful in getting their points across. A few bits of unamusing reality, most notably vomiting drunks and police hauling away too-boisterous celebrants, can be found.
The film also peppers the celebration with a host of interviews by New Orleans musical legends including Kermit Ruffins, Irma Thomas, Rosie Ledet, Anders Osborne, radio DJ John Sinclair and more.
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8.00
Hexing A Hurricane DVD $10
Director's Cut DVD. Includes bonus features: "Locals Plea for Help," Katrina photo gallery and more.
What bloggers are saying about Hexing A Hurricane...
"Frankly, it's the only piece I've seen about "The Incident" that I'd feel comfortable sending to people outside New Orleans. It's authentic and hopeful and articulate and persuasive and a bunch of other stuff that Andy Cooper--cute though he may be--just can't muster." - sturtle.com
"A wonderful documentary that needs to be watched by every single American." - hbhouseofclassicmusic.spaces.live.com
"Everyone, especially non-New Orleanians, should see this movie. It's the most accurate telling of what this whole Katrina experience has been like that IÕve seen." - missmalaprop.com
"Incredible work. I encourage everyone to get out and see it (better yet, purchase it and support great local filmwork). - humidhaney.com
"This film is a must watch for anyone who asks the question - Why would anyone want to live in New Orleans?" - myspace.com/vero
"Saw Hexing a Hurricane at Canal Place last night. Also bought. And cried. Of course." - ahembree.livejournal.com
What bloggers are saying about Hexing A Hurricane...
"Frankly, it's the only piece I've seen about "The Incident" that I'd feel comfortable sending to people outside New Orleans. It's authentic and hopeful and articulate and persuasive and a bunch of other stuff that Andy Cooper--cute though he may be--just can't muster." - sturtle.com
"A wonderful documentary that needs to be watched by every single American." - hbhouseofclassicmusic.spaces.live.com
"Everyone, especially non-New Orleanians, should see this movie. It's the most accurate telling of what this whole Katrina experience has been like that IÕve seen." - missmalaprop.com
"Incredible work. I encourage everyone to get out and see it (better yet, purchase it and support great local filmwork). - humidhaney.com
"This film is a must watch for anyone who asks the question - Why would anyone want to live in New Orleans?" - myspace.com/vero
"Saw Hexing a Hurricane at Canal Place last night. Also bought. And cried. Of course." - ahembree.livejournal.com
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10.00