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Empire City

"The City That Never Sleeps"

1985-07-01
9
en 89m
DocumentaryHistory
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political and cultural figures. Made at a time when the city was experiencing unprecedented real estate development on the one hand and unforeseen displacement of population and deterioration on the other. Empire City is the story of two New Yorks. The film explores the precarious coexistence of the service-based midtown Manhattan corporate headquarters with the peripheral New York of undereducated minorities living in increasing alienation.

Director of Photography

Mead Hunt

Associate Producer

David Schmerler

Producer

Michael Blackwood

Executive Producer

Peter Brugger

Original Music Composer

Philip Glass

Sound Recordist

Thomas Holaday

new york city politics architecture economics gentrification

Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • Michael Blackwood Productions

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