Koch

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Audience Member How'm I doin? 3.5 stars :) Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Very well done. Informative and engaging. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/08/23 Full Review Audience Member A straight-forward but fascinating documentary about how Ed Koch - equal parts controversial and beloved - helped New York transform from bankrupt disaster of 1977 to the modern metropolis of 1989. It is a very even story that helps show that Koch wasn't always beloved. In fact, several people discuss how he is racist, opportunistic, or shrewed. But what made Koch so fascinating was that he never held back, making him not just an iconic mayor, but an iconic New Yorker. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review dave d "Koch" takes a look at all sides of the former three-term mayor of NYC. It even touches on the elephant in the room, the mayor's sexuality. Koch has the mayor speak on several topics that hurt his political career and to hear his thoughts just months before his death are revealing. You may have to be from the New York metropolitan area to care, but being that I am I found it interesting and important. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review walter m "Koch" is an informative documentary about Edward I. Koch(1924-2013), the mayor of New York City from 1977 to 1989. He started by saving the city from bankruptcy while starting a troublesome trend of making the city more welcome to tourists and suburbanites than its own people. Throughout, his outsized personality proved perfect for the city's tabloids, as his politics became more conservative than those when he was a congressman representing just Greenwich Village.(By contrast, Kirsten Gillibrand's politics are much more liberal now that she is representing New York State as a Senator.) But his working both ends against the middle would eventually politically doom him.(If you want to see what New York City looked like in 1989, watch "Do the Right Thing.) The biggest failure of his time in office was not doing enough during the AIDS crisis, with the Gay Men's Health Crisis picking up the slack in handling services that the city should have provided. As far as Koch's sexuality(or lack of) goes, I agree in an absolute sense of privacy but since Koch was publicly and proudly Jewish, shouldn't his sexuality be on the same level? Overall, "Koch" does a good job of chronicling his life and times, with many then current conversations with the man himself, as the Queensboro Bridge is renamed in his honor. At the same time, the filmmakers could have cast a wider net in interview subjects, not just talking to his allies. For example, it would have helped if they at least also talked to Jimmy Breslin and Al Sharpton. And I know it's just a curious footnote, but I would also have liked to have seen more on his acting appearances that went beyond his hosting Saturday Night Live. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member I loved this portrait of an ever-smiling magnetic Personality who found loneliness at the top. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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