Labor Goes to the Movies: The Searchers
Event Date: Friday, September 9, 2016 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie The Searchers (Ford, 1956) The Searchers (1956) is now considered by many to be an American masterpiece. Ten to fifteen years after the film’s debut, and after reassessing it as a cinematic milestone, a generation of “New Hollywood” film directors, French…
Labor Goes to the Movies Presents: Rear Window—Fri., Nov. 13
Event Date: Friday, November 13, 2015 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Labor Goes to the Movies is proud to present a screening and discussion of Rear Window (Hitchcock, US, 1954) on Fri., Nov 13 in the PSC Union Hall (61 Broadway, 16th floor). An immobilized photojournalist James Stewart, lacking the hidden cameras…
Labor Goes to the Movies:Darwin's Nightmare
Event Date: Friday, May 8, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. The threat of global climate change has given apocalyptic scenarios more mainstream girth, but filmmakers…
Labor Goes to the Movies:Chinatown
Event Date: Friday, April 17, 2015 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. The threat of global climate change has given apocalyptic scenarios more mainstream girth, but filmmakers…
Labor Goes to the Movies: An Evergreen Island & Before the Mountain Was Moved
Event Date: Friday, December 12, 2014 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie This year’s Labor Goes to the Movies film series presents a group of films—documentary and fiction—that take the threat of apocalypse as their premise. These two documentaries present stories of ordinary flesh-and-blood people’s resistance to corporate resource extraction that…
Labor Goes to the Movies: Glory
Event Date: Friday, February 14, 2014 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Glory (USA, Zwick, 1989) This film relates the story of the legendary 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment, the first black Union Army regiment, organized and commissioned in 1863 at the insistence of Frederick Douglass and other Black abolitionists and 'sponsored' by…
Labor Goes to the Movies-Leviathan
Event Date: Friday, November 8, 2013 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Leviathan (France/UK/USA, Castaing-Taylor and Paravel, 2012)The film records the sounds and images of a commercial fishing boat off the coast of New Bedford, Massachussetts. Without a word of commentary, with virtually no audible dialogue, smothered under the unceasing roar…
Labor Goes to the Movies, "One-Zero"
Event Date: Friday, February 22, 2013 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie One-Zero One-Zero(Egypt, Abu Zekry, 2009) Set in Cairo on the eve of an important soccer match, One-Zero interweaves stories of Cairo inhabitants from various walks of life, including a Coptic woman seeking a divorce, a valet who lives in…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, March 9, 2012 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High (Amy Heckerling, USA, 1982) As most of our students have grown up with the high school genre movies, it seems necessary to include one. At the time, most critics categorized Fast Times as just…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, February 10, 2012 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie NightJohn (Charles Burnett, USA, 1996) A tale about a former runaway slave who returns to a plantation to educate his people in the ante-bellum South. The community changes radically when he begins to secretly teach Sarny, a 12-year-old slave…
