Radiant City
Documentary
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2007
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Since the end of World War II, one of kind of urban residential development has dominate how cities in North America have grown, the suburbs. In these artificial neighborhoods, there is a sense of careless sprawl in an car dominated culture that ineffectually tries to create the more organically grown older communities. Interspersed with the comments of various experts about the nature of suburbia
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Rated:
N/A
Runtime:
93 min
Release date:
30 May 2007
Country:
CA
Languages:
English
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations
Top Critics Reviews
rotten:
The faux-documentary aspect of Radiant City is a huge gamble that doesn't pay off.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
31 May 2007
fresh:
Suburban sprawl takes a well-deserved hit in Radiant City, a documentary by Canadian filmmaker Gary Burns and journalist Jim Brown.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
30 May 2007
fresh:
Blending documentary elements and some dramatic material, Radiant City is an acerbic position paper on the cultural damage done by postwar architectural fads.
– Matt Zoller Seitz,
New York Times,
30 May 2007
fresh:
[An] enlightening and disturbingly funny critique of North American suburban sprawl.
– Aaron Hillis,
Village Voice,
29 May 2007
fresh:
Radiant City is a movie about communities that offer everything prospective citizens might want or need, save this: a human reason to live there.
– Geoff Pevere,
Toronto Star,
31 Mar 2007