Empire City
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
Buy
Rent
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.
- director
- Michael Blackwood
- cast
- Donald Trump, Ed Koch, Jane Jacobs, Elia Kazan
- genres
- runtime
- 1 hr 29 mins
Buy
Rent
people also liked
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Return of the Living Dead Part II
Point of No Return
Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Return to the Blue Lagoon
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers
To the Bone
Universal Soldier: The Return
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure
River of No Return
A Return to Salem's Lot
Teen Beach Movie
Saw II
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge
2001: A Space Odyssey
Exit Through the Gift Shop
The Adventures of André and Wally B.
Avalon High
Return to Halloweentown
