210m; U.S.
Director: Mike Newell
Cast: Robert Blake, Cotter Smith, Danny Aiello
Synopsis: Film on the feud between Jimmy Hoffa and Robert F. Kennedy.
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Blind Shaft (2003)
92m; China
Director: Li Yang
Synopsis: Chinese mine workers.
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Bless Their Little Hearts (1984)
80m; U.S.
Director: Billy Woodberry
Cast: Nate Hardman, Kaycee Moore and Angela Burnett
Synopsis: Life in Watts.
Black Orpheus (1959)
107m; Brazil
Director: Marcel Camus
Cast: Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn and Lourdes de Oliveira
Synopsis: A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
Black Legion (1937)
83m; U.S.
Director: Archie Mayo
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Dick Foran
Synopsis: When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.
Black Gold: A Film About Coffee and Trade (2006)
78m; U.K.
Director: Mark & Nick Francis
Synopsis: How unfair trade and labor practices in the coffee industry have kept Africa mired in poverty.
Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com movie website: http://www.blackgoldmovie.com/ distribution@blackgoldmovie.com
Time Out (2001)
134m; France
Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: Aurélien Recoing, Karin Viard and Serge Livrozet
Synopsis (IMDB): Recently fired from his job, but unable to confess the truth to his close-knit family, Vincent spends his days driving around the countryside, talking into his cell phone and staring into space. Vincent fabricates a new job for himself so his family and friends will not know that he is out of work. At one point, he even sneaks into an office building. As Vincent roams the building’s sterile halls, peeking into meeting rooms where men are busy at work, we see a man who yearns not just for a new job, but also for a place in the world. While this pantomime of work initially registers as sad and even a little pathetic, it slowly and unnervingly becomes terrifying.
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Workingman’s Death (2006)
122m; Austria/Germany
Director: Michael Glawogger
Synopsis: Deconstructs contemporary conceptions of work – by showcasing six of the most grueling and dangerous professions. Incredibly beautiful and moving, with virtually no dialogue or narration.
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
127m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney and Liam Cunningham
Synopsis (IMDB): Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical graduate of University College, would rather further his training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short-lived and when one faction of the freedom-fighters accepts a treaty with the British that is regarded as unfair by the other faction, a civil war ensues, pitting Irishmen against Irishmen, brothers against brothers, Teddy against Damien.
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Work Hard, Play Hard (Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré) [2006]
99m; France
Director: Jean-Marc Moutout
Cast: Jérémie Renier, Laurent Lucas and Cylia Malki
Synopsis (IMDB): Philippe Seigner, a charming business school graduate from the French Pyrenees, starts his career in business consulting at the posh Paris seat of McGregor. His first serious task is a delicate one, an audit at the Janson food cans factory in the provinces, which is about to be taken over. As he soon realizes, this will mean sacking about 80 employees, as his boss Hugo Paradis knew from the start. However, his Paris girl friend reproaches him collaborating with ruthless capitalism, as if any of the downsizing could be stopped or mitigated by him bowing out. Nevertheless, as he gets to knew the threatened staff better he considers risking his career when his boss orders him to chose who should go. Meanwhile the factory staff starts realizing what’s about to happening
Contact: Antoine Sebire frenchcinemawashington@yahoo.com Audiovisual Affairs Embassy of France – La Maison Française 4101 Reservoir Road, NW Washington DC, 20007 Ph: 202.944.6287 Fax: 202.944.6043 http://www.la-maison-francaise.org
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