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Indie Film: Eastport among the small towns profiled in uplifting HBO documentary Our Towns, based on a book, is streaming on HBO Max.
By Dennis Perkins
HBO Max
“How does a town like this keep coming up with new ways to create a future for itself,” ask journalists and authors James and Deborah Fallows concerning the small Washington County city of Eastport. After all, they add, “It’s not like Downeast Mainers are famous for their optimism.”
Something of a burn there, but the Fallows’ overall glowing assessment of Eastport’s resilience makes up a good part of the 2021 documentary “Our Towns,” which is currently garnering praise on HBO Max, so I guess we Mainers will, begrudgingly, have to allow it. In fact, “Our Towns” holds up Eastport’s recent and ongoing reinvigoration as something of a model for all of America, so that’s not a bad thing, as the film posits a ground-up approach to revitalizing a beleaguered nation modeled on six municipal success s
Whatâs on TV This Week: âOur Townsâ and âBeethoven in Beijingâ
A documentary on HBO looks at small towns across America. And PBSâs âGreat Performancesâ revisits a pivotal 1973 classical music tour.
A scene from âOur Towns.âCredit.HBO
April 12, 2021
Between network, cable and streaming, the modern television landscape is a vast one. Here are some of the shows, specials and movies coming to TV this week, April 12-18. Details and times are subject to change.
Monday
INDEPENDENT LENS: DOWN A DARK STAIRWELL (2021)
10 p.m. on PBS (check local listings). On Nov. 20, 2014, a New York City police officer, Peter Liang, shot and killed Akai Gurley, 28, who was unarmed. (Liang was convicted of manslaughter in 2016.) Gurley was Black; Liang is Chinese-American. The killing prompted a particularly complex debate over police accountability, which the filmmaker Ursula Liang (who is not related to Peter Liang) explores in this new documentary.