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August 19, 2011
Movie review: 'Battle for Brooklyn'
Although not exactly even-handed, the movie proves a deft look at a reluctant crusader.
Los Angeles Times
by Gary Goldstein
It's true. Battle for Brooklyn, which opens tonight in LA, is overly kind to Bruce Ratner.
The well-assembled documentary "Battle for Brooklyn" follows one man's tenacious and complicated fight to preserve his neighborhood from a questionable invoking of eminent domain.
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When the headline popped up in our Google search, we thought it was the first review focused on the relationship between protagonists Daniel Goldstein and Shabnam Merchant. We were wrong.
Several of the other docs addressed the legal aspects of social issues, including interracial marriage (Loving Story), environmental activism (If a Tree Falls), eminent domain (Battle for Brooklyn, You've Been Trumped), our civil justice system (Hot Coffee) and even Hitler's reign of terror (Nuremberg: It's Lessons for Today).
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BEVERLY HILLS: If you've been as obsessed with the years-long battle over Brooklyn's Atlantic Yards as our cousins at Curbed NY have, or if you're just into wild stories of eminent domain, you'll get a chance to see the movie version of the development battle starting tomorrow night at the Laemmle Music Hall.
...In an email, co-director Michael Galinsky mentions that Angelenos might be especially primed for the movie right now, being in the thick of stadium development ourselves.
Posted by eric at August 19, 2011 11:16 AM