A Battle For the City

This week, Hamptons Doc Fest adds the documentary “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” to the hamptonsdocfest website.

“Citizen Jane: Battle for the City” (2017, 92 min.), directed by Matt Tyrnauer, was a fest favorite in an April 2017 Doc Fest program co-presented at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill with an exhibition on architecture.

This powerful documentary spotlights Jane Jacobs, writer and urban activist, as she battled in a David-and-Goliath struggle to save historic New York City neighborhoods during the 1960s when urban planner Robert Moses was poised to wipe them off the map.

Also available on the Doc Fest website will be the post-film Q&A with Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of “The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs,” and with nationally-recognized author and urban planner Peter M. Wolf, who has been active on several East Hampton community boards.

Other films also still available through the Hamptons Doc Fest website, most with Q&As from the directors’ appearances at the Hamptons Doc Fest film festival in previous years, are “Terrence McNally: Every Act of Life,” “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am,” “In Search of Israeli Cuisine,” “Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise,” “The Biggest Little Farm,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” “Spielberg,” “Life, Animated,” “Very Semi-Serious,” “Free Solo,” “To a More Perfect Union: U.S. v. Windsor,” “Marvin Booker Was Murdered,” the new first-run documentary “Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint,” “Dads” for Father’s Day, “Pick of the Litter,” “Jane Fonda in Five Acts,” the new first-run documentaries “John Lewis: Good Trouble” and “Spaceship Earth,” “A Moment in Time: Hamptons Artists,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?” new first-run documentaries “The Fight” and “Denise Ho: Becoming the Song,” and Fest Faves “Mike Wallace Is Here,” “Merchants of Doubt,” “Driven To Abstraction,” “Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists,” “A Ballerina’s Tale,” “For the Birds,” a special screening of “RBG” in tribute to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg who passed away on September 18, and “King Bibi.”