90m; France
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Cast: Joseph Gehrard, Marina Vlady and Anny Duperey
Synopsis: Prostitution becomes a metaphor for marriage and for working class; selling one’s body for food, shelter and consumer goods.
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USA vs Al-Arian (2007)
52m; U.S.
Director: Line Halvorsen
Synopsis: University Professor Sami Al-Arian targeted by US after 9/11
Two Seconds (1932)
67m; U.S.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne and Guy Kibbee
Synopsis (IMDB): Allen claims he his being executed for the wrong murder. Flashbacks show him working with Clark as a riveter. When he makes a killing on the horses he meets Shirley and gets married. When Clark tells him Shirley is unfaithful they fight and Clark falls to his death. Later he finds that Clark was telling the truth.
Ubergangszeit (2008)
10m; U.S.
Director: Renee Patt
Synopsis: A portrait of a man and his work, and how it has become his identity.
Contact: rmpatt@uwm.edu 414 517 8011 (Cell)
Umberto D (1952)
91m; Italy
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio and Lina Gennari
Synopsis (IMDB): Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Unberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with his dog Flick. Umberto’s lone friend is Maria, servant of the boarding house. She is a simple girl who is pregnant by one of two soldiers and neither will admit to being the father. When Umberto’s landlady Antonia demands the rent owed her and threatens eviction if she is not paid, Umberto tries desperately to raise the money by selling his books and watch. He is too proud to beg in the streets and can not get a loan from any of his acquaintances. He contracts a sore throat, is admitted to a hospital and this puts a delay on his financial difficulty. Discharged, he finds that his dog is gone and, following a frantic search, locates him in the city dog pound.
Umbrella (2007)
93m;
Director: Du Haibin
Contact: http://icarusfilms.com/new2008/umb.html
lori@icarusfilms.com
The program of economic reforms initiated in China in 1978 by Deng Xiaoping aimed to finance the modernization of the nation. But what Communist Party leaders called “Socialism with Chinese characteristics” looked suspiciously to many as a return to capitalism. Today, some three decades later, the results of those sweeping economic reforms have become plainly visible in a country increasingly divided between its rural and urban sectors.
Filmed in five different regions of China, UMBRELLA provides a telling look at the vast changes that have taken place in Chinese society, including a massive migration from the countryside to the cities, the rise of a prosperous new class of businesspeople, millions of new college graduates competing for a shrinking number of jobs, and the neglect of China’s largest population group, its rural peasants.
Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad (2007)
93m; Mexico
Director: Jill Friedberg
Synopsis: People of Oaxaca take the media into their own hands in support of the teachers’ strike.
Uncle Moses (1932)
88m; U.S.
Director: Sidney M. Goldin, Aubrey Scotto
Cast: Maurice Schwartz, Judith Abarbanel and Mark Schweid
Synopsis (IMDB): “Uncle” Moses is a wealthy garment store owner in the Lower East Side. He lords his wealth and its attendant power over the neighborhood, dispensing noblesse oblige and conducting casual affairs with numerous women. When he falls in love with the beautiful young daughter of one of his employees, he discovers what it is like to be beholden to another person. He convinces her to marry him, but she does so out of financial and social obligation, and Moses’ love remains distressingly unrequited. At the same time, the growing labor movement attacks him for his exploitative employment conditions, and Moses begins to doubt the truth of the American Dream he thought he had achieved.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1987)
110m; U.S.
Director: Stan Lathan
Cast: Avery Brooks, Kate Burton, Bruce Dern, Samuel L. Jackson
Synopsis: Film version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel.
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