Giuliani Time Explained

Giuliani Time
Director:	Kevin Keating
Producer:	Kevin Keating Williams Cole
Music:	David Carbonara
Studio:	K Video Productions
Distributor:	Cinema Libre Studio
Runtime:	118 minutes
Country:	United States
Language:	English

Giuliani Time is a 2005 documentary film by Kevin Keating about Rudy Giuliani, former mayor of New York City.^[1] Giuliani Time is distributed by Cinema Libre Studio. A special election version of the film was released on May 2, 2008.

Title

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.

Reception

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.^[2]

Giuliani Time has a rating of 85% positive at Rotten Tomatoes (22 fresh, 4 rotten).^[3]

Awards

• Silver Lake Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2006

Featured New York City personalities

Source:^[4]

• Wayne Barrett, journalist
• Pete King, U.S. Congressman
• Gerald Lefcourt, lawyer
• Arthur Helton, Iraq War victim
• David Dinkins, former New York City mayor (1990–1993)
• Norman Siegel, lawyer
• Ed Koch, former New York City mayor (1978–1989)
• William Bratton, twice former NYPD police commissioner
• Rudy Crew, education administrator
• Ruth Messinger, politician
• Al Sharpton, civil rights activist
• Donald Trump, real estate developer and future President of the United States
• Charles King, politician

Technical details

• MPAA rating: none
• Running time: 118 minutes

See also

• • Juan Gonzalez Jack Newfield

External links

• • Village Voice review
• New York Times, A.O. Scott's May 12, 2006 review of the film
• Variety review

Notes and References

1. Web site: Keeler . Mary . December 13, 2006 . Rudy Giuliani is Considering a Presidential Run. But Is He Right For America? . https://web.archive.org/web/20110622100937/http://www.commondreams.org/news2006/1213-01.htm . June 22, 2011 . December 22, 2022 . Common Dreams.
2. Web site: village voice > film > Giuliani Time: Doc Takes Aim at Republican Thug Giuliani by Michael Atkinson.
3. Web site: Giuliani Time. Rotten Tomatoes. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171204134027/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/giuliani_time/. December 4, 2017. February 7, 2020.
4. Web site: Giuliani Time Review – Film Reviews-Rotterdam, Entertainment – Variety.