Labor Goes to the Movies: The Postman Always Rings Twice
Event Date: Friday, May 12, 2017 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie The Postman Always Rings Twice (Garnett, 1946) Only the earlier box office success of Double Indemnity convinced MGM that they should risk violating the Motion Picture Code by funding the film, based on the novel by the hard-boiled writer James M.…
Labor Goes to the Movies: Ossessione
Event Date: Friday, April 7, 2017 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Ossessione (Visconti, 1943) Link to trailer here. After working in France with Jean Renoir, young Italian Marxist aristocrat Luchino Visconti was searching for a topic for his first film. Renoir had suggested the tawdry US novel The Postman Always Rings Twice…
Labor Goes to the Movies: The Lady from Shanghai
Event Date: Friday, March 10, 2017 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie The Lady from Shanghai (Welles, 1946) This noir film pushes the genre into depths of claustrophobic nightmare. As with many noir films, the plot becomes a lure for the spectator, an armature built on lies, deceit and venality, all apparently generated…
Labor Goes to the Movies: Double Indemnity
Event Date: Friday, February 10, 2017 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Double Indemnity (Wilder, 1944) Double Indemnity brings together multiple talents that combined to produce one of the most powerful films noirs. Starting with the pulp novel by James M. Cain, Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler collaborated on the screenplay, and Wilder…
LGTM Presents a Special Saturday Screening of Seven Samurai
Event Date: Saturday, January 14, 2017 - 12:00pm Event Type7: Movie Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) “However one defines the word masterpiece as it applies to films, it undoubtedly must apply to Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.” (David Blakeslee).Kurosawa, a lifelong fan and ‘student’ of the director John Ford, applies the ‘grammar of the…
Labor Goes to the Movies: Meek's Cutoff
Event Date: Friday, November 11, 2016 - 6:00pm Event Type7: Movie Meek's Cutoff (Reichardt, 2010) Kelly Reichardt’s fifth feature, based on historical accounts of a wagon train struggling to make its way through the Oregon high desert, is, according to Roger Ebert, “the first film I’ve seen that evokes what must have…
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…
