CITIZEN JANE: BATTLE FOR THE CITY

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Fri, May 5, 2017 12:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Fri, May 5, 2017 3:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Fri, May 5, 2017 6:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Fri, May 5, 2017 9:10 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sat, May 6, 2017 12:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sat, May 6, 2017 3:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sat, May 6, 2017 6:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sat, May 6, 2017 9:10 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, May 7, 2017 2:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, May 7, 2017 4:10 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, May 7, 2017 6:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Sun, May 7, 2017 8:30 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Mon, May 8, 2017 12:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Mon, May 8, 2017 3:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Mon, May 8, 2017 6:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Mon, May 8, 2017 9:10 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Tue, May 9, 2017 12:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Tue, May 9, 2017 2:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Tue, May 9, 2017 4:00 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Tue, May 9, 2017 9:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, May 10, 2017 12:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, May 10, 2017 3:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 2 Wed, May 10, 2017 6:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Thu, May 11, 2017 12:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Thu, May 11, 2017 3:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Thu, May 11, 2017 6:20 PM
Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 3 Thu, May 11, 2017 9:10 PM

Description

CITIZEN JANE

A stirring documentary about Jane Jacobs, and her epic battle with Robert Moses over city planning in the 20th century, and how those struggles inform, define, and frame the fights we are having in the era of mass urbanization and the global megacity.


In 1960 Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. 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 solutions to the dizzying array of urban issues can be found in Jacobs’s prescient text, and a close second look at her thinking and writing about cities is very much in order. This film sets out to examine the city of today through the lens of one of its greatest champions. (USA, 2016, 92 min., English, NR, DCP | Dir. Matt Tyrnauer)