Koch [videorecording] / a film by Neil Barsky ; producer, Jenny Carchman ; director, Neil Barsky.

[New York] : Zeitgeist Films, [2013]

English

English dialogue, optional English subtitles for (SDH); closed-captioned.

1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

795975115339

F128.54.K63 K634 2013

974.7/1043092

Z1153 Zeitgeist Films

"Former Mayor Ed Koch was the quintessential New Yorker. Ferocious, charismatic, and hilariously blunt, Koch, who died in February 2013 at the age of 88, ruled New York from 1978 to 1989--a down-and-dirty decade of grit, graffiti, near-bankruptcy and rampant crime... 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"--Container.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2012 by How Am I Doing, LLC.
Extras: Witnesses NYC (a 29 min. film featuring 1980s arcchival footage plus interviews with new Yorkers who lived through the Koch period); director interview by Ondi Timoner (35 min.); Ed Koch Q&A at the New York Jewish Film festival, his last appearance (17 min.)); theatrical trailer.
With: Edward Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Joseph Berger, Charles Rangel, Ethan Geto, Joyce Purnick, Calvin O. Butts, III.

Director of photography, Tom Hurwitz ; editor, Juliet Weber ; music, Mark de gli Antoni.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, NTSC, widescreen (16:9) presentation; 5.1 or 2.0 soundtracks.

Witnesses NYC.

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