''Giuliani Time'' is a 2005 documentary film by Kevin Keating about

Rudy Giuliani Rudolph William Louis Giuliani ( , ; born May 28, 1944) is an American politician and Disbarment, disbarred lawyer who served as the 107th mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001. He previously served as the United States Associate Attorney ...

, former

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. ''Giuliani Time'' is distributed by Cinema Libre Studio. A special election version of the film was released on May 2, 2008.

Title

The documentary's title is a reference to a phrase that police officers allegedly uttered to Abner Louima when they tortured him in a Brooklyn

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house. Louima himself later recanted that statement, saying he had made it up. The phrase was also used by John Shaft in the 2000 remake of Shaft.

Reception

The '' Village Voice'' called the documentary "an incisive portrait of power seizure and class combat as it was performed, by the numbers, on the municipal level." The film contains several archival segments, as well as interviews with ''Village Voice'' writer and unauthorized Giuliani biographer, Wayne Barrett and radio journalist Doug Henwood. ''Giuliani Time'' has a rating of 85% positive at

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(22 fresh, 4 rotten).

Awards

* Silver Lake Film Festival, Best Documentary, 2006

Featured New York City personalities

Source'':'' * Wayne Barrett, journalist * Pete King, U.S. Congressman * Gerald Lefcourt, lawyer * Arthur Helton,

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victim *

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, former New York City mayor (1990–1993) * Norman Siegel, lawyer *

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, former New York City mayor (1978–1989) * William Bratton, twice former

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* Rudy Crew, education administrator *

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, politician *

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, civil rights activist *

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, real estate developer and future

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* Charles King, politician

Technical details

*MPAA rating: none *Running time: 118 minutes

References

External links

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''Village Voice'' review

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