72m;
Director: David Redmon
Synopsis (IMDB): This examination of cultural and economic globalization follows the life-cycle of Mardi Gras beads from a small factory in Fuzhou, China, to Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and to art galleries in New York City.
114m; U.S.
Director: Mort Ransen
Cast: Helena Bonham Carter, Kate Nelligan and Clive Russell
Synopsis (IMDB): In a town where half the men die down the coalpit, Margaret MacNeil is quite happy being single. Until she meets Neil Currie, a charming and sincere bagpipe-playing, Gaelic-speaking dishwasher. But no matter what you do, you can’t avoid the spectre of the pit forever.
48m
Director: Allan King
Cast: Enzina Berti, Diane D’Aquila and Jean Gascon
Synopsis (IMDB): Outraged by the insults to her mother, Maria decides to organize a union for the immigrant women she and her mother work with in a Toronto sweat shop. In her battle against male chauvinism, patronage and bullying, Maria wins her own freedom.
96m; U.S.
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Cast: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart and Lola Lane
Synopsis: Mary Dwight works as a hostess at the Club Intime run by ruthless gangster Johnny Vanning. When one of her “clients” is murdered prosecutor David Graham questions Mary but she won’t cooperate and Vanning is acquitted. When Mary’s sister Betty is killed by one of Vanning’s thugs she decides to spill the beans and is beaten into disfigurement. At her bedside all the hostesses agree to testify.
92m; U.S.
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray and Madge Kennedy
Synopsis: Romanticized version of working class sexual politics as a couple each tell a divorce judge their story.
91m; U.S.
Director: Delbert Mann
Synopsis (IMDB): A touching story about two lonely people who have almost resigned themselves to never being truly loved.
30m; U.S.
Director: Robert Saudek Associates
Synopsis: Homestead steel strike in PA.
68m; Finland
Director: Aki Kaurismäki
Cast: Kati Outinen, Elina Salo and Esko Nikkari
Synopsis (IMDB): Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. But when she is made pregnant after a one-night stand by a man who thought she was a prostitute, she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.
85m; France
Director: Frédéric Balekdjian
Cast: Pascal Elbé, Simon Abkarian and Isaac Sharry
Synopsis (IMDB): Vahé, Sahak, and Toros run a bonneteau game on the streets of Paris. They’re Lebanese French of Armenian descent. Vahé also works with his father, a cloth merchant, and is in love with Lu Ann, Chinese French, who’s broken off their affair. Vahé wants to make things right: with Lu Ann, with his father’s business, and with Yuen, Lu Ann’s younger brother, who’s on the edge of delinquency and owes money to the gang who arranged his passage from China. Vahé tries to be like a father to Yuen, teaching him a work ethic. When Yuen impetuosity puts his own life in jeopardy, Vahé tries to save him. Will Vahé’s impulses and hopes die on the streets of Paris?
Director: Phie Ambo
Synopsis (IMDB): “Mechanical Love” is a documentary on the interrelationship between robots and humans. The film portrays people who have a close relationship with a robot, and it takes us from the high temple of robot technology, Tokyo, Japan, to Braunschweig, Germany, to Italy and back to Copenhagen, Denmark. By this world tour director Phie Ambo seeks to highlight the human need for love and our craving to be loved by others – perhaps the two most important aspects of life. Through the main characters, she examines the cultural differences in how we accept emotional robots in the East and the West.
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