Tonight, Harry Shearer will premiere his new documentary, The Big Uneasy, which goes inside the Army Corps of Engineers to look at the levee failures that led to the post-Katrina flooding. The show tonight at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is sold out, but it will also be shown Monday at 4:45 and 9:30 p.m. at The Prytania, with Shearer on hand for a Q&A after the second show.

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Kenneth Turan of the L.A. Times writes:

Shearer has put together a gripping, persuasive film that posits that the catastrophic flooding that overwhelmed New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina was not a natural disaster but the result of years of ruinous decisions and horrific misjudgments by the Army Corps of Engineers, the same people who are in charge of the city’s latest flood-control plan.

Shearer and The Big Uneasy were the subject of NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” today, and the online stream of his interview will be live after 5 p.m. Central time.