Koch (film)

Koch is a 2012 documentary film directed by Neil Barsky about former New York City Mayor Ed Koch. Koch premiered at the Hamptons International Film Festival on October 8, 2012 and is distributed by Zeitgeist Films. It opened theatrically in the United States on February 1, 2013 coincidentally, the day of Kochs death.

Both as a portrait of a changing New York City and the man who was at the epicentre of that evolution for over a decade, Koch is a delight. Its a compelling, never dull time capsule that isnt so much a celebration of Ed Koch, as an honorable and entertaining study of exactly the kind of flawed and principled man that New Yorkers love to get behind. And they did. Kevin Jagernauth, IndiewireThough it spends time with Mr. Koch in the present and summarizes his premayoral life some of it spent in Newark, Koch is above all a chronicle of New York civic life from 1977 to 1989... It is hardly an uncritical account of Mr. Kochs dozen years as mayor, but time has a way of turning the furious political battles of the past into amusing war stories, and of softening old enmities. A.O. Scott, The New York Times ........

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