93m; Italy
Director: Ermanno Olmi
Synopsis: Alienated experience of Italian youth in a big company.
Author Archives: Metro Council
Joe (1970)
107m; U.S.
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick and Susan Sarandon
Synopsis (IMDB): Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter’s drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is “different”, and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue
John & Jane Toll-Free (2005)
77m; India
Director: Ashim Ahluwalia
Synopsis: Eye-opening behind-the-scenes look at an Indian call-center.
John Q (2002)
116m; U.S.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall and Gabriela Oltean
Synopsis: A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant, takes the hospital’s emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.
John and the Missus (1987)
100m; Canada
Director: Gordon Pinsent
Cast: Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs and Randy Follett
Synopsis (IMDB): A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine–the town’s only source of income–is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government
Join a Union (2009)
1m; U.K.
Director: Gary Williams
Synopsis: An entry for the TUC’s ‘Join a union’ one minute film competition.
Journey of a Red Fridge (2007)
52m; Nepal
Director: Lucian Muntean, Natasa Stankovic
Cast: Hari Prasad Rai
Synopsis (IMDB): This is a story of a 17-year-old boy named Hari Rai, who lives in a small village in the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal, and his extraordinary journey. Hari is a student. However, he also works as a porter so that he could pay for his tuition and cover his living expenses. Although very young, he already has three years of experience carrying loads up and down the mountain, mostly tourists’ backpacks. This time, he gets a job to carry a huge red refrigerator from the top of the mountain, to the nearest town. We follow Hari Rai on his journey through the fascinating Himalayan landscapes, we discover Hari’s inner life, his thoughts, hopes and dreams and we also get to know the culture and the local people’s way of life in this region. We learn about their relation with the most important aspects of their lives: family, nature and religion. Out of 60,000 child porters in Nepal, Hari is one of the few lucky ones to have a chance of going to school. We can see what it takes for him to get his education.
Contact: http://www.lunamdocs.com/
The Joyless Street (1925)
125m; Germany
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Synopsis: Despair of the poor and the near-poor in inflation-ridden Germany
Just Another Cog in the Machine (2009)
2:42; U.K.
Director: John Wood
Synopsis: A union can make a big difference to people’s perceptions of a job,” says the TUC’s John Wood, who created the video.
Contact: http://www.youtube.com/user/johninnit Online film
Justice for All? (2009)
8m; Canada
Director: Kyle Russell
Synopsis: (YouTube) “Litigants and Advocates expose the flaws of British Columbia’s justice system through their own experiences.”
Contact: Available to watch on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ4AwOmevOY
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