122m; Mexico
Director: Carlos Carrera
Synopsis: The true story of the border town of Juarez, Mexico where since the mid-90’s thousands of women have gone missing or turned up as sun-burnt corpses in the desert. Can new police captain Blanca Bravo stop the savagery?
117m; Sweden
Director: Bo Widerberg
Synopsis: A 1971 biopic about Swedish-American labor activist Joe Hill, born Joel Emanuel Hägglund in Gävle, Sweden. It was directed by Bo Widerberg and depicts Hill’s involvement with the Industrial Workers of the World(IWW) union, and his trial for murder during which he defends himself. It won the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
The film has been unavailable commercially for many years, but a digitally remastered version is currently in preparation. It is due for release later in 2015.
115m; France
Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Synopsis (IMDB): Melé is a bar singer, her husband Chaka is out of work and the couple is on the verge of breaking up… In the courtyard of the house they share with other families, a trial court has been set up. African civil society spokesmen have taken proceedings against the World Bank and the IMF whom they blame for Africa’s woes.
96m
Director: John Hancock
Synopsis: The story of the friendship between a star pitcher, wise to the world, and a half-wit catcher, as they cope with the catcher’s terminal illness through a baseball season.
107m
Director: Glenn Jordan
Broadcast Date: March 23, 1993
Network: HBO
Cast: James Garner, Jonathan Pryce
Synopsis (New York Times): Based on the exhaustive, and sometimes exhausting, best seller by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, “Barbarians at the Gate” chronicles the multi-billion-dollar battle in 1988 for RJR Nabisco, which at the time was working feverishly on developing a “smokeless cigarette.” The machinations were incredibly complex, requiring bankers galore and backfield lawyers for the lawyers on the front lines. Condensing the story into a movie running less than two hours, Larry Gelbart, the creator of television’s “M*A*S*H,” has eliminated the players in the middle layers to focus almost entirely on the top-level principals, most notably F. Ross Johnson, chairman of RJR Nabisco, and Henry Kravis, the master of leveraged buyouts at the Wall Street concern Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company.
78m; Brazil
Director: Glauber Rocha
Synopsis: Relation between strike and proleterian life on the Brazilian coast. Depiction of striking fishermen, “black magic rituals,” and emotional relationships.
83m; U.S.
Director: Jonathan Parker
Synopsis: Office workers; “A sorrowful and hilarious tone poem about alienated labor”
Contact: http://www.bartlebythemovie.com/
113m; China
Director: Xiaoshuai Wang
Cast: Lin Cui, Xun Zhou, Bin Li
Synopsis (IMDB): A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
112m; U.K.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Synopsis: Daughter of Indian emigres in England wants to be a soccer star.
172m; U.S.
Director: William Wyler
Synopsis (IMDB): Three WWII veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
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