Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
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.
Terry White, Tom Elfmont, Kee Ha, Donald Jones, Bobby Green, Tim Goldman, Gary Williams, Kevin Toshima, Henry Keith Watson, Georgiana Williams, Jung Lee, ...»
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ACTORS OF "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992"
Tom Elfmont
Kee Ha
Donald Jones
Tim Goldman
Kevin Toshima
Henry Keith Watson
Georgiana Williams
Jung Lee
Michael Moulin
Damian 'Football' Williams
DIRECTORS OF "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992"
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CREATORS OF "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992"
CRITICS OF "Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992"
It's like looking into the heart of all those single flames that made the conflagration.
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.
Laramie Movie Scope
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.
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.
'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.
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
An essential documentary that covers the heightened racial tensions in LA from 1982-1992.
Reel Talk Online
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.
Wrenching, must-see docu probes racial violence in L.A.
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.
[Let it Fall] accomplishes what straightforward nonfiction narrative can do in the best of circumstance.
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.
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.
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