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June 2, 2011
Imported and Homegrown
The Wall Street Journal
by Steve Dollar
Brooklyn Film Festival
Brooklyn Heights Cinema
70 Henry St., Brooklyn, (718) 596-7070
Friday-June 12Touting 101 films—long, short, fiction, nonfiction, animated, experimental —from 26 countries, the Brooklyn Film Festival isn't necessarily borough-centric. But it spotlights plenty of Brooklyn stories, with titles such as "Bed-Stuy: Do or Die" (about a volunteer ambulance corps made up of former gang members) and "Gowanus 83" (a comedy about an ex-con on a cab ride to hell). Nothing depicts the borough's backbone with more personality and urgency than "Battle for Brooklyn," the opening-night selection. The new documentary by Clinton Hill filmmakers Michael Galinsky and Suki Hawley recounts community efforts to stop developer Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards project. Seven years of footage is edited into a crisp, dramatic and narrator-free 93 minutes, focusing on the remarkable story of neighborhood activist Daniel Goldstein, the last resident in a Pacific Street building marked for demolition through eminent domain. (Films also show at indieScreen, 285 Kent Ave., in Williamsburg).
Posted by eric at June 2, 2011 4:51 PM