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…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, December 9, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (Alain Tanner, Switzerland, 1976) This film looks forward to the possibilities of this, our new millennium, from out of the shadows of May '68. A group of young people in…
Labor Goes to the Movies
Event Date: Friday, October 21, 2011 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm Event Type7: Movie High School (1968) 75 min. Frederick Wiseman Cited by the Library of Congress as a National Treasure, Wiseman’s documentary of a Philadelphia high school quietly presents the effects of institutional education and the inevitable clash of generations. The themes…
