96m; Finland
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Synopsis: Unemployment
Author Archives: Metro Council
Dubai: One City, Two Faces (2008)
29m; United Arab Emirates
Director: Ines Mendia
Synopsis: The documentary shows the underside of money in Dubai, a city where too much is never enough, and human rights are forgotten.
Contact: inesmendiaerror@yahoo.es 690607271 (Cell)
Experience Fenton (2000)
28m
Synopsis: Traces history of the Fenton Art Glass Company, emphasizing the importance of the relationship between the Fenton management and the glass workers who produce the products.
More information available at: http://www.fentonartglass.com/
Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American (1994)
60m; U.S.
Director: Bette Jean Bullert
Synopsis: This portrait aired on several major public television stations in the late 1990s. It captures the life and music of the composer of “Joe Hill,” “Black and White,” “Ballad for Americans” and other songs that convey the hopeful, progressive spirit of his generation. Rich in archival footage, this documentary includes performances of Robinson’s songs by Joan Baez, Frank Sinatra, Paul Robeson, Josh White, Three Dog Night, Peter, Paul & Mary, and of course, Earl himself. Judy Collins narrates.
Edge of the City (1957)
85m; U.S.
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: John Cassavetes, Sidney Poitier and Jack Warden
Synopsis: Two New York City longshoremen Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader whose growing friendship is threatened by Charles Malik, a notably repellent punk.
Educating Rita (1983)
110m; U.K.
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Cast: Michael Caine, Julie Walters and Michael Williams
Synopsis: A young wife decides to complete her education and take her exams. She meets a professor who teaches her to value her own insights while still being able to beat the exams. The change in her status causes friction between her and her husband.
The Efficiency Expert (1992)
97m; Australia
Director: Mark Joffe
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Ben Mendelsohn and Alwyn Kurts
Synopsis (IMDB): An expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork, despite laying off more than half the workforce.
Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day (1972/3)
471m
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Synopsis: West German television series on the lives of factory tool makers.
Eight Men Out (1988)
119m; U.S.
Director: John Sayles
Cast: John Cusack, Charlie Sheen, David Strathairn, Christopher Lloyd, Studs Turkel
Synopsis: A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Eight Times Up / Huit Fois Debout (2009)
103m; France
Director: Xabi Molia
Synopsis: Elsa scrapes through to the end of each month by doing odd jobs. At night, she cleans buses in a deserted coach station, during the day she looks after a child for a young couple. Hoping to land a job with a contract, she attends interviews with disastrous results. Her neighbour Mathieu is also looking for work and seems to have achieved perfection in the art of failing interviews. One day, Elsa is evicted from her flat. She finds herself faced with a life of uncertainty with only a potted plant for company. Mathieu occasionally makes her offers of love that she’s not ready to accept. The temptation to leave it all behind leads Elsa to a forest in which Mathieu has already found refuge and set up camp.
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