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Gut Renovation

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Filmmaker Su Friedrich charts the destruction of Williamsburg, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, so developers can build luxury condos.

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Ronnie Scheib Variety 03/14/2013
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. Go to Full Review Farran Smith Nehme New York Post 03/08/2013
1.5/4
The result is like an hour and a half listening to someone bellyache about her landlord. Go to Full Review Noel Murray AV Club 03/07/2013
C-
What's lacking is a larger cultural, historical, and aesthetic context. Go to Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru 03/08/2013
4.5/10
Rightfully angry, but too simplistic, annoying and tedious. Go to Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews 03/07/2013
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. Go to Full Review David Noh Film Journal International 03/07/2013
Very DIY project covers the scary gentrification of a beloved New York neighborhood, but ends up being more a whine-fest than truly powerful. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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03/13/2013 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. See more Read all reviews
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Su Friedrich

Director

Su Friedrich

Screenwriter

Cathy Quinlan

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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