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      Gut Renovation

      2012 1h 21m Documentary List
      30% Tomatometer 10 Reviews Filmmaker Su Friedrich charts the destruction of Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, so developers can build luxury condos. Read More Read Less

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      Ronnie Scheib Variety Rather than invoking sympathy or shared outrage, the filmmaker creates a kind of complicity with her audience, particularly as she explores the depressingly similar, sterile apartments of the high-rises steadily surrounding her. Mar 14, 2013 Full Review Farran Smith Nehme New York Post The result is like an hour and a half listening to someone bellyache about her landlord. Rated: 1.5/4 Mar 8, 2013 Full Review Noel Murray AV Club What's lacking is a larger cultural, historical, and aesthetic context. Rated: C- Mar 7, 2013 Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru Rightfully angry, but too simplistic, annoying and tedious. Rated: 4.5/10 Mar 8, 2013 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews An all out assault on NY real estate developers and their nonstop drive to turn one of the world's great cities into a Tower of Mammon. Mar 7, 2013 Full Review David Noh Film Journal International Very DIY project covers the scary gentrification of a beloved New York neighborhood, but ends up being more a whine-fest than truly powerful. Mar 7, 2013 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member A terrific film showing the political workings behind the supposed "improvement" of a neighborhood. There always is gentrification, and artists are often part of that gentrification --- they make the neighborhood nicer, and hipper, and then others want to come there, and real estate prices start going up, etc. However, complete radical transformation overnight is NOT the same kind of gentrification. One is slow, gradual, evolutionary, and driven by individuals making choices over time; the other radical, ahistorical, and is run by businesses looking to make money. So while some may point out that Friedrich is part of the gentrification of Bed Sty (which is true), your movie isn't really about "gentrification". It's about development. Rampant development. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis Filmmaker Su Friedrich charts the destruction of Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, so developers can build luxury condos.
      Director
      Su Friedrich
      Screenwriter
      Su Friedrich, Cathy Quinlan
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Runtime
      1h 21m