105m; U.S.
Synopsis: Horrors of Harlem ghetto slum life filled with drugs, violence, human misery, and a sense of despair due to the racial prejudices of American society.
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The Corn is Green (1945)
115m; U.S.
Director: Irving Rapper
Cast: Bette Davis, John Dall, Nigel Bruce
Synopsis: Schoolteacher Lilly Moffat is dismayed by conditions in a Welsh mining town. She sets up a school to teach fundamental education to the villagers. Her housekeeper and daughter oppose the project, as does the local Squire who will not rent her space. Using part of her own home, she goes ahead with Miss Moffat’s School. One of her students Morgan Evans turns from bully to brilliant student.
The Corn is Green (1979)
94m; U.S.
Director: George Cuckor
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Ian Saynor and Bill Fraser
Synopsis: A strong-willed teacher, determined to educate the poor and illiterate youth of an impoverished Welsh village, discovers one student whom she believes to have the seeds of genius in him.
Couch Encounter (2003)
10m; U.S.
Director: Samantha Davidson Green
Synopsis: Wealthy Beverly Hills socialite hired two Mexican day-workers to move a couch
Cover boy: L’ultima rivoluzione (2007)
97m; Italy
Director: Carmine Amoroso
Synopsis: The story of a friendship between two young men—a Romanian immigrant and an Italian lower-class worker.
Contact: from Todd at AFI
Crane World (1999)
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.
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.
The Crowd (1928)
104m; U.S.
Director: King Vidor
Synopsis: Drama presenting the plight of workaday men and women in New York city at the turn of the century. In his youth John Sims is convinced that he’s destined to be a man of importance but twenty seven years later, he is merely one of the faceless crowd, an underpaid clerk in a huge New York office building.
The Cry of the People (Al Grito de este Pueblo) [1972]
65m; Bolivia
Director: Humberto Rios
Synopsis: A political history of Bolivia which shows the working conditions of the miners.
Demand
45m
Director: Ann Simonton
Synopsis: Shared Hope International’s explosive new documentary, featuring investigative footage of the dark and hidden world of sex traffickers, pimps and buyers. DEMAND. exposes the men who buy commercial sex, the vulnerable women and children sold as commodities, and the facilitators of the sale within the marketplace of exploitation.
http://www.sharedhope.org/what/videos.asp recc by Ann Simonton It talks about the women’s labor in the sex industry a topic too often ignored. It is 45 minutes and I could help set up a panel for what folks can do and people to field questions in all cities listed below. Thanks, Ann Simonton
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