Koch The Life and Career of a New York Mayor
Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch, ruled New York from 1978 to 1989, a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime. KOCH is an intimate and revealing portrait of this intensely private man, his legacy as a political titan, and the town he helped transform.
The tumult of his three terms included a fiercely competitive 1977 election; an infamous 1980 transit strike; the burgeoning AIDS epidemic; landmark housing renewal initiatives; and an irreparable municipal corruption scandal. Through candid interviews and rare archival footage, Koch thrillingly chronicles the personal and political toll of running the world's most wondrous city in a time of upheaval and reinvention.
Official Selection at the Hamptons International Film Festival and at the Palm Springs Film Festival.
"Skillfully directed and assembled...a very good movie--vivid, touching, and fair." - Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
Running Time
96 mins
Year
2012
Kanopy ID
6347025
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Features
Charles Barron, Christine Quinn, Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, Edward I. Koch, George Arzt, James Oddo, John LoCicero, Joyce Purnick, Lewis Fidler, Mark Weprin, Michael Goodwin, Sam Roberts
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Comments (2)
A very well done, fair and balanced, documentary of a man who--in a city of 9million characters--was one of the most memorable. Well worth watching.
A really, really enjoyable and well made film.