Koch

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  • Opened February 1, 2013 (Limited LA)
  • 1 hr 38 min
  • NR
  • KOCH is a beautiful documentary examining one man’s fascinating journey into rehabilitating the very unhealthy city of New York in the 1980s. Sometime stubborn and unapologetic, Koch also opens the door to his much-speculated-about private life, which he doesn’t mind being asked about, so long you don’t mind being told to mind your own business. With his trademark greeting “How I’m Doin, ’’ his combative energy and his charming wit, Ed Koch makes for the perfect documentary subject. Says director Neil Barsky: “Making a documentary about Ed Koch was an easy call. I cannot think of a New Yorker as popular or as polarizing. Ed Koch’s story is in many ways the story of the city.” Full synopsis

  • Cast: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Calvin O. Butts III, Carl McCall, Christine Quinn, Charles Rangel
  • Director: Neil Barsky
  • Genres: Documentary

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Koch

by kbmd99

Great movie. Everyone who lives in NY should definitely see, and even those who don't. There is a lot to learn from this NYC icon about politics and life....

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Mister Mayor, You did just fine!

by zoejenkins

Beautifully executed documentary! As a consumate New Yorker for over 30 years, I was so touch by the content and information in the film that important for the history books. Ed Koch was truly a one...

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A must go if you are into NYC history

by sueono

The seminal events of the 1970's and early '80s are told from one man's perspective, but what a perspective it is. He was perhaps one of NYC's greatest mayors....

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New York Post
| Lou Lumenick

Koch ends with the former mayor showing off a typically flamboyant gesture that embodies his contradictions - choosing to be buried in a Christian cemetery in his beloved Manhattan, complete with an already erected tombstone proclaiming his Jewish identity. Read full review

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Entertainment Weekly
| Owen Gleiberman

As a politico, Ed Koch loved power a little too much. But as a leader, he was a storybook embodiment of New York's contradictions, which is why his chapters in the city's saga loom so large. Read full review

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Wall Street Journal
| Joe Morgenstern

Koch the film makes the point without belaboring it — a mayor and a metropolis linked by tumultuous events in the worst and best of times. Read full review

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Movie Nation
| Roger Moore

The film reminds us that as amusing as he could be, he wasn’t the dazzling wit history packaged him as. “Relevant” is how he wanted to be remembered. And before he died, he got a filmmaker to remind us of exactly that. Read full review

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Ed Koch in "Koch."