119m; U.S.
Director: John G. Avildsen
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire and Burt Young
Synopsis (IMDB): Rocky Balboa is a struggling boxer trying to make the big time, working as a debt collector for a pittance. When heavyweight champion Apollo Creed visits Philadelphia, his managers want to set up an exhibition match between Creed and a struggling boxer, touting the fight as a chance for a “nobody” to become a “somebody”. The match is supposed to be easily won by Creed, but someone forgot to tell Rocky, who sees this as his only shot at the big time
99m; Ireland
Director: Peter Lennon
Cast: Sean O’Faoláin, Conor Cruise O’Brien and John Huston
Synopsis (Wikipedia): A brief sketch of Irish history since the Easter Rising of 1916 is drawn, in which the hopes of the revolutionary founders of the Irish Free State for a republican society are dashed. The writer Seán Ó Faoláin argues that what emerged was a society of “urbanized peasants” without moral courage who observed a self-interested silence in a “constant alliance” with an “obscurantist” and “uncultivated church”.
105m; Italy
Director: Giuseppe de Santis
Cast: Carla Del Poggio, Lucia Bosé, Raf Vallone
Synopsis (Wikipedia): The film is based on a real story, an accident that happened in Rome, when a staircase fell down because of the weight of hundreds of women waiting for a job interview as a secretary
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Italy; 91m
Natale, an apprentice bricklayer, and Luisa, who has no skill, marry and try to live with Natale’s parents and other relatives in one apartment, what might happen in the poorest classes in Rome about 1950. After a quarrel Natale and Luisa precipitately leave without a place to live. The remainder of the film is devoted to their finding housing. The solution is building a one room brick dwelling as a squat on unused railway land on the outskirts of Rome. As this is illegal Natale gets his workmates to assist him during the night. Provided a dwelling has a door and a roof the householder cannot be evicted. At dawn when the police arrive to remove them the dwelling is complete except for part of the roof, but a humane policeman looks the other way. We suppose that Natale and Luisa, now pregnant, live happily ever after. (Wikipedia)
57m; U.S.
Director: Steve Fetsch
Synopsis: Prehistoric tools, Ben Franklin, trust busting, railroads, drug laws, plastics, nanotubes and space travel? What ties these things together in a movie? Rope, of course!
Contact: athensmovie@yahoo.com 740-594-7848 (Private)
97m; U.S.
Director: Julie Dash
Cast: Angela Bassett, Peter Francis James and Tonea Stewart
Synopsis: Film biography of civil rights heroine Rosa Parks.
92m; Belguim
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne
Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione and Anne Yernaux
Synopsis: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job. Set in Belgium. Both film and actress won major prizes in Cannes.
25m; U.S.
Director: Roger Weisberg
Synopsis (IMDB): A Liberian refugee’s inspiring journey to build a new life for his family.
10m; U.S.
Director: Dennis Strom; Clyde Ware
Cast: Jesse Johnson, Tyrone Power Jr, Joe Estevez
Synopsis: A video presentation about a coal miner working to get medical care for his wife. The miner is eventually trapped in a coalmine disaster and barely escapes with his life. Tyrone Power Jr, grandson of the famous Tyrone Power, and Joe Estevez, the brother of Martin Sheen appear in the presentation.
Contact: Steve Fesenmaier has a VHS copy he was given by Clyde Ware who still works out of Delaware Pictures, 650 N. Bronson Ave., B114, Hollywood, CA 90004 (323) 960-4552 delaware_pix@yahoo.com
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