Giuliani Time

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Giuliani Time
Directed byKevin Keating
Produced byKevin Keating
Williams Cole
Music byDavid Carbonara
Production
company
K Video Productions
Distributed byCinema Libre Studio
Release dates
  • January 31, 2005 (2005-01-31)(International Film Festival Rotterdam)
  • May 12, 2006 (2006-05-12)(United States)
Running time
118 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

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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

Source: [4]

Technical details

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References

  1. 1 2 Keeler, Mary (December 13, 2006). "Rudy Giuliani is Considering a Presidential Run. But Is He Right For America?". Common Dreams. Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved December 22, 2022.
  2. "village voice > film > Giuliani Time: Doc Takes Aim at Republican Thug Giuliani by Michael Atkinson".
  3. "Giuliani Time". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on December 4, 2017. Retrieved February 7, 2020.
  4. "Giuliani Time Review – Film Reviews-Rotterdam, Entertainment – Variety".