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.
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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1935)
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.
Crossroads (2007)
7m; U.K.
Director: Matthew Hoad-Robson
Synopsis: Slick and stylish, a man and a woman compete for the same job. They meet in a bold, stark environment, each desperate to win out over the other.
Contact: Youtube link to full film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E93BCu3pKvc Found on 2007 Palms Springs Shorts Film Festival: http://www.psfilmfest.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=19323&FID=31
Cry of the Children (1912)
29m; U.S.
Director: George O. Nicholas
Synopsis: An expression of the pre-World War One reform movement concerning child labor.
Daens (1993)
138m; Holland
Director: Stijn Coninx
Synopsis: In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the petite bourgeoisie in oppressing workers.
Contact: Jan Marijnissen, jmarijnissen@sp.nl (guy I met 8/14; will get me more info on Dutch labor films)
Dadetown (1995)
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.
Dangerous Containers (2006)
6m; U.S.
Director: Firebrand Productions
Synopsis: Teamsters showing dangers on the road and lack of protection for drivers who speak out.
Day Labor (2008)
12m; U.S.
Director: David Lindabury
Synopsis: Burned out by the grind of boring, anonymous jobs, Corey and Dale really need a day off. But with no vacation time left, and a mandatory sales meeting to attend, they need to find a temporary solution. Juan and Esteban have worked plenty of dirty jobs before, but nothing has prepared them for a day in the office. Can they survive the cubicles and conference rooms of corporate America?
Contact: info@fearsome4.com 404-808-4728 (Cell)
A Day Without a Mexican (2004)
95m; U.S.
Director: Sergio Arau
Synopsis: One day California wakes up and not a single Latino is left in the state. They have all inexplicably disappeared, chaos, tragedy, and comedy quickly ensue. NOT SCREENED
Days and Clouds (2008)
115m; Italy
Director: Silvio Soldini
Synopsis: Well-to-do, sophisticated Italian couple face upheavals when the husband is fired by the company he founded. Exhausted by an unsuccessful job hunt, the husband lets himself go, alternating between vivacity and apathy and the growing distance between them eventually leads to a break-up. Only when they part will they realize that they risk losing their most precious possession: the love that binds them.
Contact: http://www.filmmovement.com/filmcatalog/index.asp?MerchandiseID=165 Film Movement, Cambria Matlow: Cambria@filmmovement.com; 212-941-7744 ext. 205
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