Mayor is a 2020 documentary film produced and directed by David Osit. The film follows Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine, for two years. Release Mayor premiered in March 2020 at the True/False Film Fest, one of the last film festivals to proceed as scheduled in the first half of 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The film was acquired by Film Movement for theatrical distribution in North America, beginning at Film Forum on December 2, and was released online on the Criterion Channel and video on demand platforms in early 2021. The film was subsequently a recipient of a 2022 Peabody Award. Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "A clear-eyed look at an extraordinary subject, Mayor makes essential viewing out of one politician's quest to preserve dignity in the midst of bureaucracy." In his Critic's Pick review for Indiewire Eric Kohn writes "There have been countless documentaries made about the West Bank experience, from “5 Broken Cameras” to “The Settlers,” and they often involve the travails of ordinary life existing side by side with military persecution. “Mayor” offers a striking new perspective on that struggle, with a personal on-the-ground quality matched by grand tonal ambitions that makes it the best of its subgenre." Tomris Laffley of Variety writes "Osit brings a respectful approach that admirably never registers as observations of a patronizing Westerner", and called the film "astonishing" and "sharply witty".

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Notable quotes

“It was weird seeing Ricky act so weaselly and calculating, like he’d become a politician all of a sudden.”
— Charlie Jane Anders, Break! Break! Break! (2014), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015 (p. 226)
“Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.”
— Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (1971), Chapter 20
“The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.”
— Joni Madraiwiwi Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
— Attributed to Socrates, but reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) as unverified in his writings or in interpretive writings about him. Possibly this is an interpretation of a passage from Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates (The Apology), trans. F. J. Church, p. 61 (1880, reprinted 1972): "I do not venture to come forward in the assembly, and take part in public councils…. For, Athenians, it is quite certain that if I had attempted to take part in politics, I should have perished at once and long ago, without doing any good either to you or to myself. And do not be vexed with me for telling the truth".
“POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 259. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book.
“I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.”
— Author unknown; reported in The Washington Post (June 9, 1978), p. C1, quoting a "veteran Virginia Democrat".

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Mayor is a 2020 documentary film produced and directed by David Osit. The film follows Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine, for two years.

Notable quotes

“It was weird seeing Ricky act so weaselly and calculating, like he’d become a politician all of a sudden.”
— Charlie Jane Anders, Break! Break! Break! (2014), reprinted in Rich Horton (ed.), The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2015 (p. 226)
“Actors didn’t have to be politicians, but politicians had to be actors.”
— Philip José Farmer, The Fabulous Riverboat (1971), Chapter 20
“The politicians pontificate and manoeuvre with eloquent manifestos and pronouncements saying little about the challenges we must confront.”
— Joni Madraiwiwi Our Country at the Crossroads - 2001 Parkinson Memorial Lecture Series, 15 August 2001
“I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.”
— Attributed to Socrates, but reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989) as unverified in his writings or in interpretive writings about him. Possibly this is an interpretation of a passage from Plato, The Trial and Death of Socrates (The Apology), trans. F. J. Church, p. 61 (1880, reprinted 1972): "I do not venture to come forward in the assembly, and take part in public councils…. For, Athenians, it is quite certain that if I had attempted to take part in politics, I should have perished at once and long ago, without doing any good either to you or to myself. And do not be vexed with me for telling the truth".
“POLITICIAN, n. An eel in the fundamental mud upon which the superstructure of organized society is reared. When he wriggles he mistakes the agitation of his tail for the trembling of the edifice. As compared with the statesman, he suffers the disadvantage of being alive.”
— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1948), p. 259. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book.
“I'd rather keep my promises to other politicians than to God. God, at least, has a degree of forgiveness.”
— Author unknown; reported in The Washington Post (June 9, 1978), p. C1, quoting a "veteran Virginia Democrat".

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Mayor is a 2020 documentary film produced and directed by David Osit. The film follows Musa Hadid, the mayor of Ramallah, the de facto capital of Palestine, for two years. Release Mayor premiered in March 2020 at the True/False Film Fest, one of the last film festivals to proceed as scheduled in the first half of 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The film was acquired by Film Movement for theatrical distribution in North America, beginning at Film Forum on December 2, and was released online on the Criterion Channel and video on demand platforms in early 2021. The film was subsequently a recipient of a 2022 Peabody Award. Reception On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of based on reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "A clear-eyed look at an extraordinary subject, Mayor makes essential viewing out of one politician's quest to preserve dignity in the midst of bureaucracy." In his Critic's Pick review for Indiewire Eric Kohn writes "There have been countless documentaries made about the West Bank experience, from “5 Broken Cameras” to “The Settlers,” and they often involve the travails of ordinary life existing side by side with military persecution. “Mayor” offers a striking new perspective on that struggle, with a personal on-the-ground quality matched by grand tonal ambitions that makes it the best of its subgenre." Tomris Laffley of Variety writes "Osit brings a respectful approach that admirably never registers as observations of a patronizing Westerner", and called the film "astonishing" and "sharply witty".

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