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Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
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Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.
Actors:
Thomas Campanella, Vincent DOnofrio, Mindy Fullilove, Alexander Garvin, Paul Goldberger, Steven Johnson, Max Page, Mary Rowe, Michael Sorkin, Marisa Tomei, Jane Jacobs...»
Director:
Matt Tyrnauer
Country:
United States
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The Film Stage
May 11, 2017 It's his depiction of the adversarial relationship between those making decisions and those affected by them that hits home.
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Austin Chronicle
June 29, 2017 Like his previous film, Valentino: The Last Emperor, about the famous fashion designer, director Matt Tyrnauer takes on a fascinating subject yet mostly consolidates existing information without adding much to our knowledge base.
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Boston Globe
June 01, 2017 She was also one tough cookie who appreciated a good fight. A bit more internal tussle would have both better honored her spirit and made for a better documentary.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
May 03, 2017 In the context of today's stymied political trench wars, there is inspiration to be found in Jacobs' example of local activism, original thinking, and rational argument blossoming into useful change.
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Washington Post
May 04, 2017 The movie is scored like a thriller, seemingly building to some terrifying conclusion. And, in a way, it does ...
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Salt Lake Tribune
June 22, 2017 A plucky intellectual takes on New York's most powerful builder in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, an engrossing documentary that details a historical conflict that is being repeated around the world today.
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Chicago Reader
May 25, 2017 Most good documentaries are powered by conflict, and you couldn't ask for a struggle more elemental or relevant to our time than the one chronicled in Citizen Jane: Battle for the City.
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Detroit News
June 02, 2017 Tyrnauer uses a ton of archival footage to tell his story, and brings it in at a brisk 92 minutes.
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
May 11, 2017 This straightforward and bracingly optimistic documentary explains the ways that shaping politics and wielding power can ease urban decline or inflate it.
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Irish Times
June 14, 2017 A timely warning against big-block buildings with empty ground-floor shop units, nonetheless.
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The Sunday Age
June 30, 2017 A bracing, insightful study of how cities are made and sometimes destroyed.
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