- 1h 28m
Just when Julie finally gets an interview for a job that will let her raise her children better, she runs into a national transportation strike.
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“Full Time,” Reviewed: A Hectic Thriller of Everyday Life
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Foreign Parts (2010)
1h 21m
‘Foreign Parts’ portrays a hidden enclave of automobile shops and junk-yards fated for demolition in the shadow of a new baseball stadium in Queens. The film observes this vibrant community of immigrants – where wrecks, refuse, and recycling form a thriving commerce – as it struggles for daily survival and contests New York City’s development scheme.
Directors Verena Paravel & J.P. Sniadecki
R.M.N. (2022)
Unrated; 2h 5m
Romanian New Wave auteur Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days”) returns to masterful form with this drama, set in the filmmaker’s homeland and focusing on Matthias (Marin Grigore), a man who returns to his small village after walking off his slaughterhouse job in Germany, only to find the townspeople roiled by the presence of foreign workers. Ann Hornaday writes: “So much fear and misplaced anger are at play in Matthias’s increasingly hysterical behavior that ‘R.M.N.’ might as well be an X-ray of contemporary America.” (PG-13, 106 minutes.)
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Fallen Leaves (2023)
In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls in search of love meet by chance in a karaoke bar. However, their path to happiness is beset by obstacles – from lost phone numbers to mistaken addresses, alcoholism, and a charming stray dog.
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NYT review: Can a Rom-Com Make Sense in Dark Times? Yes, When It’s From This Master.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023)
An overworked and underpaid production assistant drives around Bucharest to shoot the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company.
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Singing for Justice
Singing for Justice tells the story of Faith Petric, a political radical, community organizer and charismatic performer who united folk music and progressive causes from the 1930s through the early 2000s. Narrated largely by Faith herself, the film weaves her musical and political journeys to showcase the central role of folk music in the transformational social movements of the 20th century.
Co-director: Estelle Freedman
ebf@stanford.edu
info@singingforjustice.com
Working Man (2019)
Not rated. Running time: 1 hour 49 minutes.
Rent or buy on FandangoNOW, iTunes and other streaming platforms and pay TV operators.
Director: Robert Jury
Writer: Robert Jury
Stars: Peter Gerety, Billy Brown, Talia Shire, Michael Brunlieb, Bea Cordelia
Running Time: 1h 49m
Genre: Drama
NYT ‘Working Man’ Review: Evolving on the Assembly Line
The Sleep Dealer (2008)
90m; Mexico
Director: Alex Rivera
Cast: Luis Fernando Peña, Leonor Varela and Jacob Vargas
Synopsis: Mexican man from the provinces whose family and home are destroyed by terrorist-seeking drones goes to Tijuana, where he joins a workforce of illegal workers whose labor is transported electronically across the border.
Contact: alex@alexrivera.com http://sleepdealer.com/ Alex Rivera 611 Broadway, #836 NY NY 10012
Northern Lights (1978)
95m; U.S.
Director: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson
Cast: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch and Joe Spano
Synopsis: Northern Lights tells the story of North Dakota farmers who rebel against the economic tyranny of the railroads, grain dealers, and bankers by working for the election of Nonpartisan League candidates in 1916. (from http://jetson.unl.edu/cocoon/encyclopedia/doc/egp.fil.051)
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