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Company Town 

14 Jan

When the last factory in a small Rust Belt town closes its doors, an unlikely hero emerges in dutiful, quiet Allery Parkes. A career employee of the factory, the aging Allery, can’t reconcile how to live a life simply sitting at home doing nothing. Against the advice and pleas of his loving wife Lola, he forms an unlikely friendship with his charismatic neighbor Walter, in order to revive the defunct factory. As their community rallies around them – and as their former corporate bosses strategize how to implode this unexpected movement – Allery learns that he might be something he never thought possible: a leader.

Film info: Drama | 109 min | Director: Robert Jury | Country: USA | Language: English | Subtitles: Swedish

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2023 in A: New/Just Added, Drama, Manufacturing, Working Class

 

Triangle of Sadness (2022)

14 Jan

R; 2h 27m

A fashion model celebrity couple join an eventful cruise for the super-rich.

‘Triangle of Sadness’ satirizes the 0.01 percent, with queasy glee

Triangle of Sadness Is as Absurd as 21st-Century Capitalism Is

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2023 in 2025 Shortlist, A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Communism/Socialism, Drama, Philosophy, Service Workers, Working Class

 

The Assistant (2020)

14 Jan

Julia Garner is “magnificent” as the personal assistant to a TriBeCa-based film executive whose sexual harassment of hopeful young starlets is an open secret. The name “Weinstein” is never once uttered, and it doesn’t have to be; the writer and director, Kitty Green, uses what we already know to fill in the blanks. We don’t even see the monster in question — he’s just a presence and a voice, in snatches of overheard dialogue and muffled fits of rage, and Green’s beautifully controlled film captures, with brutal, pinpoint accuracy, how that presence infects a workplace, and what happens when someone decides not to play along.

Watch it on Hulu

 
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Posted by on January 14, 2023 in Drama, Sex Industry/Sexuality, Women

 

Night on Earth

16 Feb

R 1991 ‧ Drama/Comedy ‧ 2h 9m
Dir: Jim Jarmusch
Cab drivers, in the US and elsewhere.

Release date: May 2, 1992 (New York)
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Music composed by: Tom Waits
Screenplay: Jim Jarmusch
Cinematography: Frederick Elmes

 
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Posted by on February 16, 2021 in A: New/Just Added, Comedy, Drama, Transportation

 

Shoplifters

16 Feb

2018 ‧ Drama/Crime ‧ 2h 1m
Initial release: June 8, 2018 (Japan)
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Japanese: 万引き家族
Awards: Palme d’Or, Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year, MORE
Nominations: Cannes Jury Prize, Cannes Best Director Award,

On the margins of Tokyo, a dysfunctional band of outsiders is united by fierce loyalty and a penchant for petty theft. When the young son is arrested, secrets are exposed that upend their tenuous, below-the-radar existence.

 
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Posted by on February 16, 2021 in Cities-Urban, Drama, Temp/Precarious work, Unemployment-Wages, Working Class

 

Life on the Line

05 Oct

2015 ‧ Drama/Action ‧ 1h 37m

After a family tragedy, Beau Ginner rises to be foreman in a Texas lineman team, upgrading overhead power cables and preventing disasters. However, there is friction when his college-bound niece Bailey’s on-off boyfriend Duncan joins the crew, while another new recruit is hiding PTSD symptoms.

Release date: 2016 (USA)
Director: David Hackl
Music composed by: Jeff Toyne
Executive producers: Chad Dubea, Rosa Morris Peart, Shawn Williamson, Bryant Pike, Jamie Goehring
Producers: Phillip Glasser, Marvin Peart

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/movies/life-on-the-line-review-john-travolta-kate-bosworth.html

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/life-on-the-line-2016

 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Construction Trades, Drama, Safety & Health, Streaming Online (Youtube, Vimeo), Working Class

 

Mine 9

05 Oct

2019 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 23m

Miners struggle to survive after an explosion leaves them trapped two miles underground.

Release date: April 12, 2019 (USA)
Director: Eddie Mensore
Music composed by: Mauricio Yazigi
Producer: Eddie Mensore
Screenplay: Eddie Mensore

‘Mine 9’ Review: A Tense Disaster Drama, Undermined by Clichés

 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Drama, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

Sorry We Missed You

05 Oct

2019 ‧ Drama ‧ 1h 40m

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

Initial release: May 16, 2019 (France)
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
Screenplay: Paul Laverty
Nominations: Palme d’Or, Cannes Best Actress Award, MORE
Production companies: Wild Bunch, Why Not Productions, Sixteen Films

Sorry We Missed You review – Ken Loach’s superb swipe at zero-hours Britain

 
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Posted by on October 5, 2019 in A: New/Just Added, Construction Trades, Drama, Temp/Precarious work, Transportation, Working Class, Zero hours work

 

The Big Short (2015)

24 Dec
R | | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 23 December 2015 (USA)

In 2006-7 a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market. In their research they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.

Director: Adam McKay 
Writers: Charles Randolph (screenplay by), Adam McKay (screenplay by)
Stars: Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling

 

 
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Posted by on December 24, 2018 in Big Business/Corporations, Drama, Finance, Global Economy, Philosophy, White Collar

 

On the Basis of Sex (2018)

24 Dec

Director: Mimi Leder
Writer: Daniel Stiepleman
Stars:  Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, Justin Theroux
PG-13 | | Biography, Drama | 25 December 2018 (USA)

The story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, her struggles for equal rights and what she had to overcome in order to become a U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

 
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Posted by on December 24, 2018 in Discrimination: Racism, Sexism, etc, Drama, Legal System, Women

 
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