100m; U.S.
Director: Sam Peckinpath
Cast: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw and Ernest Borgnine
Synopsis: Truckers form a mile long “convoy” in support of a trucker’s vendetta with an abusive sheriff…Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
115m; U.S.
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat’s School. One of her students Morgan Evans turns from bully to brilliant student.
90m; Bolivia
Director: Jorge Sanjinés
Synopsis: Dramatic reconstruction of 1967 massacre of striking Bolivian tin miners.
94m; U.S.
Director: George Cuckor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor and Bill Fraser
Synopsis: A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
97m; Italy
Director: Carmine Amoroso
Synopsis: The story of a friendship between two young men—a Romanian immigrant and an Italian lower-class worker.
Contact: from Todd at AFI
90m; Argentina
Director: Pablo Trapero
Cast: Luis Margani, Adriana Aizemberg and Daniel Valenzuela
Synopsis (IMDB): The portrait of a man and his attempts to make things up with life after losing his job.
80m; France
Director: Jean Renoir
Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry
Synopsis (IMDB): A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police’s description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala’s little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine’s laundry… One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front government.
104m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Synopsis: Drama presenting the plight of workaday men and women in New York city at the turn of the century. In his youth John Sims is convinced that he’s destined to be a man of importance but twenty seven years later, he is merely one of the faceless crowd, an underpaid clerk in a huge New York office building.
103m; U.S.
Director: Zoltan Korda
Synopsis: In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo (Canada Lee) journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu (Sidney Poitier) is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
105m
Director: Russ Hexter
Synopsis (WorldCat): Interviews in the Michael Moore/Roger and me tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town’s once-prosperous factory, reduced to the manufacture of paper clips and staples, finally closes.
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