129m; U.S.
Director: John Sayles
Synopsis: Urban politics, focusing on the tensions between urban redevelopment and community development in a city undergoing gentrification; based on Jersey City or Hoboken, NJ. It has some interesting scenes about organizing and politics.
62m; U.S.
Director: Loretta Alper & Pepi Leistyna
Synopsis: How TV views the working class; Ed Asner narrates. A tad pedantic but well-done look at how the working class has been portrayed on television.
128m; France
Director: Laurent Cantent
Synopsis: Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
92m; U.S.
Director: Kevin Smith
Cast: Brian O’Halloran, Jeff Anderson, Marilyn Ghigliotti
Synopsis (IMDB): A day in the lives of two convenience clerks named Dante and Randal as they annoy customers, discuss movies, and play hockey on the store roof.
4m; U.K.
Director: Chris Kasrils
Synopsis: Living wage fight of rail and tube cleaners in UK
96m; U.S.
Director: Jill Sprecher
Cast: Parker Posey, Lisa Kudrow, Toni Collette and Alanna Ubach
Synopsis: Four temporary office workers; shy Iris, brash Margaret, wannabe starlet Paula and pampered Jane become fast friends while temping at a big company where looking busy is a full time occupation. But when their boss hires a new assistant, their jobs — and their friendship — are suddenly in danger.
93m; Czechoslovakia
Director: Jirí Menzel
Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr and Vlastimil Brodský
Synopsis: An apprentice train dispatcher at a village station seeks his first sexual encounter and becomes despondent when he is unable to perform.
125m; U.S.
Director: Michael Apted
Cast: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones and Levon Helm
Synopsis: Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
92m; U.K
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Cast: Tim Robbins, Samantha Morton
Synopsis: Dystopian science-fiction movie about a doomed romance between a bureaucrat and a “genetically incompatible” woman. Intriguing premise, but somewhat esoteric in execution.
47m; U.S.
Director: Alex Gibney
Synopsis: A case study of Eastern Airlines tracing rise and fall of workplace cooperation that temporarily saved Eastern from bankruptcy
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