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Wikipedia article
'Giuliani Time' is a 2005 documentary film by Kevin Keating about Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City.
The 'Village Voice' called the documentary "an incisive portrait of power seizure and class combat as it was performed, by the numbers, on the municipal level." The film contains several archival segments, as well as interviews with 'Village Voice' writer and unauthorized Giuliani biographer, Wayne Barrett and radio journalist Doug Henwood.
The documentary's title is a reference to a phrase that police officers allegedly uttered to Abner Louima when they tortured him in a Brooklyn police precinct house. Louima himself later recanted that statement, saying he had made it up. The phrase was also used by John Shaft in the 2000 remake of Shaft.
'Giuliani Time' has a rating of 85% positive at Rotten Tomatoes (22 fresh, 4 rotten).
'Giuliani Time' is distributed by Cinema Libre Studio. A special election version of the film was released on May 2, 2008.
Featured New York City personalities
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*Wayne Barrett
*Pete King, U.S. Congressman
*Gerald Lefcourt
*Arthur Helton, Iraq War victim
*David Dinkins, former New York City mayor (19901993)
*Norman Siegel
*Ed Koch, former New York City mayor (19781989)
*William Bratton, twice former NYPD police commissioner
*Rudy Crew
*Ruth Messinger
*Al Sharpton
*Donald Trump, real estate developer and future President of the United States
*Charles King
Award
*Silver Lake Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2006
Technical details
*MPAA rating: none
*Running time: 118 minutes
See also
*'Dust to Dust: The Health Effects of 9/11'
*Juan Gonzalez
*Jack Newfield
References
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