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Category Archives: Women
Fast Food Women (1992)
28m; U.S.
Director: Anne Lewis Johnson
Synopsis: Close-up look at working conditions of fast-food service workers in eastern Kentucky. Affecting portraits but somewhat dated (though the issue is still current).
Contact: Anne Lewis 512-656-0507 (cell) http://www.annelewis.org
Fear and Trembling (2003)
107m; France
Director: Alain Corneau
Cast: Sylvie Testud, Kaori Tsuji and Tarô Suwa
Synopsis: A Belgian woman looks back on her year at a Japanese corporation in Tokyo in 1990. She is Amélie, born in Japan, living there until age 5. After college graduation, she returns with a one-year contract as an interpreter. The vice president and section leader, both men, are boors, but her immediate supervisor, Ms. Mori, is beautiful and trustworthy. Amélie’s downfall begins when she speaks perfect Japanese to clients. She compounds her failure by writing an excellent report for an enterprising colleague. The person she least expects to stab her in the back exposes her work. Thus begins her humiliations. What can become of her and of her relationship with Ms. Mori and with Japan?
Fame is the Spur (1947)
A British politician finds that his intense liberal views become more conservative with his rise to power.
Hamer Radshaw rises from a Manchester slum to an important post in the British Cabinet but, along the way, his strong socialist beliefs undergo modifications to the extent that, while maintaining them in principle, he diametrically opposes them in practice. His ‘spur’ for prosperity and social status causes him to sacrifice his ideals and friends, including allowing his wife, a fighter for women’s rights, to be jailed.Written by Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net> on IMDB
Flame in the Streets (1961)
93m; Australia
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Cast: John Mills, Sylvia Syms and Brenda De Banzie
Synopsis (IMDB): A union leader in a large company tries to win equal rights for the handful of West Indian workers at the company, but finds it is an uphill battle. After being successful, and rightly proud of his efforts, he finds that he and his wife have a difficult time coming to terms with the fact that his only daughter intends to marry a West Indian.
Everlasting Moments (2009)
131m; Sweden
Director: Jan Troell
Cast: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt and Jesper Christensen
Synopsis: Sweden, early 1900s. In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life. The camera grants Maria new eyes with which to see the world, and brings the charming photographer “Piff Paff Puff” into her life. Trouble ensues when Maria’s alcoholic, womanizing husband, feels threatened by the young man and his wife’s newfound outlook on life.
Cathy Come Home (1966)
75m; U.K.
Director: Ken Loach
Cast: Carol White, Ray Brooks and Winifred Dennis
Synopsis: From the BBC’s influential ‘Wednesday Play’ series. This tells the bleak tale of Cathy, who loses her home, husband and eventually her child through the inflexibility of the British welfare system. A grim picture is painted of mid-sixties London, and though realistic the viewer cannot but realise that a political point is being made. One of the consequences of this film was the enormous public support for the housing charity ‘Shelter’, whose public launch came shortly after the programme was first shown.
Bordertown (2006)
112m; U.S.
Director: Gregory Nava
Cast: Jennifer Lopez, Antonio Banderas, Maya Zapata, Martin Sheen
Synopsis: A journalist investigates a series of murders near American-owned factories on the border of Juarez and El Paso.
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