The film, while hardly unbiased, is not entirely one-sided.
Giuliani Time (2006)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:22
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Though he may be preaching to the choir, Keating provides plenty of evidence to back his claims about the former NYC mayor.
Theatrical Release:May 12, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Ever since the events of 9/11 Rudy Giuliani has become a name recognized the world over. Besides being named "Time" magazine's Person of the Year and receiving a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth,... Ever since the events of 9/11 Rudy Giuliani has become a name recognized the world over. Besides being named "Time" magazine's Person of the Year and receiving a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth, his profile has only grown in the last few years. His energetic campaigning for the reelection of George W. Bush gave him new political power. Over the last year, his name has been rumored as a popular choice for not only senator and governor but as America's envoy to the United Nations, the new director of the CIA and a number of other high-profile positions. He is also talked about as a favored candidate for the 2008 GOP Presidential nomination. But what defined "America's Mayor" before he was catapulted to a secular sainthood? More than five years in the making, "Giuliani Time" investigates the stories behind the "new" New York City that Giuliani laid claim to. From "quality of life" policing to welfare reform and First Amendment-related debacles, the feelings about the Giuliani years largely depended on where you stood. "Giuliani Time" is the story of the effect this former Reagan administration official and high-profile federal prosecutor had on what he called the 'Capital of the World." It is a wild ride of political ambition and public amnesia, alternate realities, wars of perception and dramatic, even cataclysmic, events. [More]
Director: Kevin Keating
Director: Kevin Keating
Producer: Kevin Keating, William Cole
Studio: Cinema Libre
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Reviews for Giuliani Time
Keating may [be] too intent on touching on every aspect of the mayor's vicious careerism; at two hours, the film might have benefited from some pruning....But the film is never dull...
Giuliani Time ultimately includes much useful information ... [but] anybody who reads The Village Voice will find nothing here to surprise them.
Keating wants to bust apart the myth of Giuliani's sanctification after 9/11, but with the film set to open only in New York, what he's really doing is preaching to the choir.
Giuliani Time energetically deflates one trumpeted myth after another about Giuliani’s success at turning the city around from its doldrums in the 1970s.
Keating's film brings back, to queasy-making effect, the state of New York City's body politic under Rudolph Giuliani's mayoral tenure.
A delightfully biased view of former New York Mayor Giuliani's administration.
Keating, who has shot for the Maysles brothers and Barbara Kopple, amasses an impressive amount of evidence to bolster his claims, allowing the relative dryness of his style to be overshadowed by the revelatory nature of his research.
Damning documentary indicts the ex-mayor as deserving to be remembered not for the clean-up of the Twin Towers, but for his utter lack of compassion for the impoverished and working classes.
With the former mayor currently enjoying one of the rare second acts in American political life, Giuliani Time does a strong job of reminding us what the first one was like.
While Keating's motives may have the public interest at heart, his methods undercut his message.
Keating, who learned his craft shooting for respected documentarians like Barbara Kopple and the Maysles brothers, takes his stand early, makes his points bluntly and backs them up solidly with archival footage and expert testimony.
Keating's film is a comet out of the past, but it's focused, if only circumstantially, on the future.
I wanted more of those press conferences where he lashed at 'actually really jerky' questions before turning on his heel and exiting stage right. When Giuliani Time gives us a taste of this Rudy, it's mesmerizing.
A chilling record of a politician whose modus operandi includes incessant lying, taking credit for other peoples' achievements, blatant racism and imperious governing.
Keating makes the case that a Giuliani presidency would be an exceedingly bad idea, juxtaposing the politician's public persona and veneer of fake charm, with his vicious dark side that periodically peers through.
It is impossible to downplay the man's role in events following the September 11 attack...But, his track record prior to that terrible event cannot be ignored.
The first chip has been knocked off the shoulder in the 2008 presidential horse race.
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