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Laila’s Birthday (2008)

30 Mar

71m; Palestine/Tunisia/Netherlands

Director: Rashid Masharawi

Cast: Mohammed Bakri, Areen Omari and Nour Zoubi

Synopsis (IMDB): Abu Laila used to be a judge, but because the government doesn’t have the means to renew his assignment he is forced to be a taxi driver. On the day his daughter Laila becomes seven years old his wife insists that he’ll be at home early and bring her a present and a cake. Abu Laila’s has nothing else on his mind then completing this mission. But the daily life in Palestine has other plans.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Children, Drama, Politics, Service Workers, Working Class

 

Land Without Bread (1933)

30 Mar

30m; Spain

Director: Luis Buñuel

Cast: Abel Jacquin and Alexandre O’Neill

Synopsis (IMDB): A surrealistic documentary portrait of the region of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Documentary, Farm & Food, Working Class

 

Land and Freedom (1995)

30 Mar

109m; U.K.

Director: Ken Loach

Cast: Ian Hart, Rosana Pastor and Icíar Bollaín

Synopsis: A young British communist volunteers to fight in Spain with the POUM militia in the civil war.  He joins an international set of leftists in the fight, however the POUM eventually becomes a target not only of the fascists, but also of the Stalin-backed Spanish republic.  The film is loosely based on George Orwell’s memoir of the Spanish Civil War, Homage to Catalonia.

 
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Posted by on March 30, 2012 in Drama, Labor History, Politics, War, Working Class

 

The Job (Ill Posto) [1961]

28 Mar

93m; Italy

Director: Ermanno Olmi

Synopsis: Alienated experience of Italian youth in a big company.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Working Class

 

Joe (1970)

28 Mar

107m; U.S.

Director: John G. Avildsen

Cast: Peter Boyle, Dennis Patrick and Susan Sarandon

Synopsis (IMDB): Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter’s drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker named Joe, who hates hippies, blacks, and anyone who is “different”, and would like to kill one himself. The two start talking, and Bill reveals his secret to Joe. Complications ensue

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Blacks, Drama, Working Class

 

John Q (2002)

28 Mar

116m; U.S.

Director: Nick Cassavetes

Cast: Denzel Washington, Robert Duvall and Gabriela Oltean

Synopsis: A down-on-his luck father, whose insurance won’t cover his son’s heart transplant, takes the hospital’s emergency room hostage until the doctors agree to perform the operation.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Safety & Health, Working Class

 

John and the Missus (1987)

28 Mar

100m; Canada

Director: Gordon Pinsent

Cast:  Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs and Randy Follett

Synopsis (IMDB): A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine–the town’s only source of income–is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Politics, Working Class

 

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The Joyless Street (1925)

28 Mar

125m; Germany

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Synopsis: Despair of the poor and the near-poor in inflation-ridden Germany

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Working Class

 

Kabluey (2007)

28 Mar

87m; U.S.

Director: Scott Prendergast

Cast: Lisa Kudrow (Leslie), Scott Prendergast (Salman), Christine Taylor (Betty), Conchata Ferrell (Kathleen), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Brad), Chris Parnell (Frank), Cameron Wofford (Cameron), Landon Henninger (Lincoln) and Teri Garr (Suze).

Synopsis: Salman is Kabluey, the corporate mascot of BlueNexion, a failing Internet company in Texas; comedy portrays a “demoralized American work force fearfully going through the motions of life while waiting without much hope for things to get better” (Scott Holden, 7/4/08 NYT)

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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Working Class

 

Keeping on (1983)

28 Mar

75m; U.S.

Director: Barbara Kopple

Synopsis (Allmovie.com): Keeping On was the only “fiction” film directed by documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple. Like her earlier Harlan County USA and The American Dream, the film examines a labor-management struggle in a hardscrabble Southern mill town. Dick Anthony Williams plays a minister who encourages the activities of labor unionist James Broderick. Williams’ stand polarizes the community, and the cleric is ostracized by the so-called “right” people. Completed in 1981, Keeping On premiered February 8, 1983 on PBS’ American Playhouse.

 
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Posted by on March 28, 2012 in Drama, Organizing, Working Class

 
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