[matilda] 'Salt of the Earth Film Festival begins thursday 1st nov

Fri Nov 25 13:41:13 GMT 2005

 hi, 

 The first film in the Salt of  the Earth Film Festival, A series of films and documentaries about 20th  C labour and  community                                    struggles around the world and at home begins next Thursday,  1st  December, the initial film will be John Sayles masterpiece, Matewan,  described as one of the finest films in American independent cinema.

'The bloody Matewan massacre was the Alamo of the

fierce struggle that raged in the coal fields of West

Virginia in the 1920's. Directed/screenwriter John

Sayles (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Brother from

another Planet) has told the tale of bitter clash

between union and coal company with all the beauty,

simplicity and quiet power of the folk ballads that

still ring in those green hills. Matewan draws on the

same moral brawn that Steinback and Ford flexed in The

Grapes of Wrath and celebrates the same compelling

virtues.'

then 

Thursday Dec 8th

Roger and Me

Roger and Me: Michael Moore  

ROGER AND ME was Moores major first film is a feature-length documentary 
film chronicling the efforts of the world's largest corporation, General Motors,
as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. 
In his quest to discover why GM would want to do such a thing, 
filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to meet the chairman,
Roger Smith, and invite him out fora few beers up in Flint to 
"talk things over". In between his efforts to see Smith, Moore, the son
of a Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre journey through Flint accompanied
along the way by RonaldReagan, Miss America, Pat Boone, Bob "Newlywed Game"Eubanks, 
and TV evangelist Robert Schuller--all of whom show up to save Flint from destruction. 
 http://www.michaelmoore.com/dogeatdogfilms/synopsis.html 

others coming in the festival

Salt of the Earth:
In the history of Hollywood there are few films with a
story behind its making as dramatically riveting asthat of Salt of the Earth. 
Made during the height of the McCarthy era by a group of blacklisted filmmakers 
who were among the best and the brightest Hollywood talent of the day  http://www.organa.com/salt.html 

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=42666

Radio Alice (111m, 2004, G Chiesa) 

Revisiting the Italy of the radical Seventies and its obsessions
with class struggle, creative anarchy and macrame ponchos, Radio Alice
provides a fascinating glimpse of a time of protest. In a working-class
district on the outskirts of Bologna, Sgualo (Tommaso Ramenghi) and
Pelo (Marco Luisi) hang out at the local cafe, allergic to gainful
employment. They don’t mind the occasional shady job for local hood
Marangon (Valerio Binasco), but they’re convinced there’s little future
whichever way they turn. Then they discover Radio Alice – the poster
child of the Italian free radio movement – and get in touch with a new
radical political consciousness that is spreading among the young.

Antonio Negri – a revolt that never ends 

(52m, 2004, (A Weltz and A Pichler) 

1 July, 1997. An elderly man arrives in Italy on a flight from
Paris where he is immediately arrested by special forces of the
Carabinieri. Antonio Negri had finally returned voluntarily to his home
country after 15 years of exile. A Revolt That Never Ends profiles the
controversial life and times of this university professor, philosopher,
militant, prisoner, refugee, and so-called ‘enemy of the state.’ It
traces Negri’s roots in the history of radical left-wing movements in
Italy during the Sixties and Seventies, illustrated through archival
footage of workers’ strikes, factory occupations, terrorist actions,
violent street confrontations, political repression, and government
trials of dissidents. During these tumultuous decades, finding himself
branded as an evil ideologue with alleged ties to the Red Brigades
terrorist group, Negri spent ten years in prison and fourteen years in
exile in Paris. His book Empire, coauthored with Michael Hardt, is an
international bestseller.

Bound For Glory
Hal Ashby

Another US independent cinema classic, this is a brilliant biopic of the great
Woodie Guthrie: hobo, musician, activist...

'Speaking out for freedom, celebrating life, proclaiming the dignity and
rights of the underdog — Woody Guthrie communicated through his folks
songs. This crusty and creative wanderer was not afraid to express his
opinions. Above all else, he was a humanist who never got out of touch
with people.'

http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/moviereview/item_6950.html

Get over It
Jay Baker(

Mush of the uk is booming, but it seems to have passed Rotherham by...

a documentary

What the director says about his film ...
www,mediaactivist.com/documentaries/html

plus other films, doc, discussions and debates
check the matilda website for updates. Help needed with 
festival,etc.... 

I made Get Over It under SilenceBreaker Films to find answers to questions raised in the company's first film, the Rotherham community project Tales from Nowhere.
Rotherham is a town that's never quite been able to effectively recover
from the local industry job losses of the Thatcher Years

plus other films, doc, discussions and debates
check the matilda website for updates. Help needed with 
festival,etc.... 

I made Get Over It under SilenceBreaker Films to find answers to questions raised in the company's first film, the Rotherham community project Tales from Nowhere.
Rotherham is a town that's never quite been able to effectively recover
from the local industry job losses of the Thatcher Years

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