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  1. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

    Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

    2017 · Documentary · 1h 32m

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  1. Apr 21, 2017 · Citizen Jane: Battle for the City: Directed by Matt Tyrnauer. With Thomas Campanella, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mindy Fullilove, Alexander Garvin. Writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs fights to save historic New York City during the ruthless redevelopment era of urban planner Robert Moses in the 1960s.

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    • Documentary, Biography, History
    • Matt Tyrnauer
    • 2017-04-21
  2. Sep 12, 2009 · Citizen Jane: Directed by Armand Mastroianni. With Ally Sheedy, Meat Loaf, Nia Peeples, Robert Curtis Brown. Jane Alexander, an attractive, athletic San Francisco woman, is enjoying a comfortable life in Pacific Heights with the man she loves, handsome, charismatic Tom O'Donnell.

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    • Armand Mastroianni
    • PG-13
    • Ally Sheedy, Meat Loaf, Nia Peeples
  3. May 4, 2017 · The radical activist Jane Jacobs makes a compelling subject for this documentary, which details her struggle with despotic planner Robert Moses Peter Bradshaw Thu 4 May 2017 10.30 EDT Last ...

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  5. Nov 11, 2016 · By Owen Gleiberman. Courtesy of TIFF. “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City,” directed by the gifted journalist and documentarian Matt Tyrnauer (“Valentino: The Last Emperor”), tells the ...

  6. Apr 14, 2017 · Plan a night at the movies to see Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, a rousing documentary about journalist-activist Jane Jacobs and her fight in the 1960s against Robert Moses, New York’s tsar ...

    • Wayne Lawson
  7. Apr 21, 2017 · May 7, 2020. Aug 12, 2019. Arguably no one did more to shape understanding of the modern American city than Jane Jacobs, the visionary activist and author of "The Death and Life of Great American ...

  8. Jacobs was also an activist, who was involved in many fights in mid-century New York, to stop “master builder” Robert Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Many of the clues for formulating ...

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