Koch

Streaming video - 2012

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 i...n 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*** more