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As cities become more interconnected, and less dependent on localized economic models, domestic issues of increased class inequality and sustainability have emerged as central components to city planning debates. These trends are perhaps best exemplified in the city of New York. Told through the eyes of tenants, city planners, business owners, scholars, and politicians, this film exposes the real politic behind the alarming disappearance of New York's...
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The human duplicators: Love means never to say "I'm colonizing your planet" in this tale about an alien, the cybernetic physicist he controls and the blind girl he falls for.
Escape 2000: A generic and nefarious corporation gentrifies a Bronx neighborhood to death in the service of creating the city of the future.
The horror of party beach : A coastal town grapples with mutated fishmen who crash a beach party in a hideous fashion.
Invasion of the...
3) The exiles
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"The Exiles" of the title are displaced Native Americans, living in late 1950s Los Angeles on Bunker Hill, a depressed area connected to the rest of the city by the Angels Flight trolley. The Indians were already exiles, from the moment they lost their ancestral lands and were confined to reservations. Starting on Friday afternoon and closing Saturday morning, the film follows pregnant Yvonne, her husband Homer, and their Mexican acquaintance Tommy...