“Battle” In Seattle from October 7th - 13th

Seattle’s Northwest Film Forum cinema, as part of its “Remaking the Metropolis” mini-festival, is screening Battle for Brooklyn nightly from October 7th to 13th. 

Tickets, showtimes and more information.

> Seattle Times review:
Some wins, some losses in ‘Battle for Brooklyn’
(3 of 4 Stars)
“…Hawley and Galinsky, a longtime wife-and-husband documentary team, bring real suspense to the story, culled from many hundreds of hours of footage. Both opposing sides talk about “the soul of Brooklyn”; what’s also clear, from this movie, is a powerful sense of finding home.”
 

> Seattle’s The Stranger review:
Battle for Brooklyn presents a complex struggle between those at the top, those in the middle, and those at the bottom. Those at the top (Jay-Z, developers, the mayor) want to transform a section of Brooklyn into a profit-making machine. Those in the middle (mostly white) do not want to be displaced by this development. And those at the bottom (mostly black) have been bought by those at the top to politically promote the displacement of those in the middle. The documentary is fair and engaging from beginning to end. “