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August 17, 2011
Staff Picks: IndieScreen Tells You What To Watch
Gothamist
Welcome to our weekly column Staff Picks, in which we ask the staffers at our favorite book, music, and movie stores around to town to share with us what they're reading, listening to, and watching this week. We figure they're good people to ask. Today we're checking in with Marco Ursino, artistic director of Williamsburg's independent movie theater IndieScreen, to find out what he's been watching lately.
...Battle for Brooklyn won the Best Documentary Award at the 2011 Brooklyn Film Festival. This smart doc directed by Suki Hawley & Michael Galinsky is an intensely intimate look at the very public and passionate fight waged by owners and residents facing condemnation of their property to make way for the controversial Atlantic Yards project, a massive plan to build 16 skyscrapers and a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets in the heart of Brooklyn. Shot over seven years and compiled from almost 500 hours of footage, Battle is an epic tale of how far people will go to fight for what they believe in."
Posted by eric at August 17, 2011 10:28 AM