95m; U.S.
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman
Synopsis (IMDB): A mysterious man John Kane (Sidney Poitier) who, when he returns to his hometown in Alabama for his sister’s funeral, is thought to be an outside labor agitator – until it’s revealed that he’s really a heavenly messenger. The plot revolves around a strike at the town’s big factory.
86m; U.K.
Director: Barney Platts-Mills
Synopsis: Portrait of Working Class Youth in London in late 60’s.
From: Senses of Cinema Cinémathèque Annotations on Film in Issue 37 by Jonathan Dawson:
Source: NFVLS Prod Co:
Kestrel Productions for LWT
Prod: Irving Teitelbaum
Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Henri Roger Phot: Charles Stewart
Editor: Elizabeth Kozmian (actually edited by Christine Aya)
Sound: Fred Sharp
Jean-Luc Godard’s wildly polemical piece of political cinema, British Sounds, offers clear evidence at the end of the 1960s that the French nouvelle vague (New Wave) was anything but monolithic or even offered a coherent or unified philosophy of filmmaking practice and intent.
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Synopsis (BFI): A slimline reissue of the Land of Promise collection, featuring 40 films over four DVDs, this extensive collection is a major retrospective of the British documentary film movement during its period of greatest influence. These films – many of which are made available here for the first time since their original release – capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before, during and after the Second World War.
Bearing witness to the social and industrial transformations of a rapidly changing world, these fascinating historical documents are all striking for their different approaches to the form. Using poetry, dramatic reconstruction, modernist techniques and explicit propaganda, the filmmakers found fresh, new ways to get their message across.
Bringing together celebrated and less-known works from such luminaries as Paul Rotha, Humphrey Jennings, Ruby Grierson, Basil Wright and Paul Dickson, this landmark release is accompanied by a 92-page book of essays by leading film historians and experts.
Website: http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_18175.html
108m; U.S.
Director: Ron Shelton
Cast: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins
Synopsis: A fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.
22m; South Africa
Director: Sally Giles & Fazel Khan
Synopsis: Struggle for decent housing/jobs in Durban, South Africa
Israel
Director: Yonatan Preminger
Synopsis: Follows Arab construction workers who begin to paint a mural. The film presents a hopeful picture in which walls between workers crumble. Beyond that, it shows a conservative society whose internal walls are being breached and aises important questions about the role of art in society.
101m; U.S.
Director: Peter Yates
Cast: Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid and Daniel Stern
Synopsis: A small-town teen obsessed with the Italian cycling team vies for the affections of a college girl. Class conflict in a small town.
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