[matilda] Fw: Proposal for film season

[Mr Jase Malgod]

Proposal 

'Salt of the earth' 

A series of films about 20th C labour and community
struggles around the world. These are mostly American
stories so need some ideas for uk ones, global south,
etc., 

Includes the great Matewan: by John Sayles 

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.
http://www.cccyclery.com/matewan.htm 

Panther: Mario Van Peebles,
A big budget film by Mario van Peebles about the rise
and fall of the Black Panther party 


Salt of the Earth:
In the history of Hollywood there are few films with a
story behind its making as dramatically riveting as
that 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 


Roger and Me: Michael Moore 

ROGER AND ME 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 for
a 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 Ronald
Reagan, 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 


Harlan County War 

A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly
killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying
of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a
long, violent strike. 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...&n=130&v=glance 


Bound For Glory
The story of Woodie Guthrie 

Its 1936, and the great depression is forcing people
from the dust bowls of Texas to the alluring green
fields of California ...and unemplyed sign painter
Woody is among them. Determined to find a better life
out west, he hitchhikes, hops freight trains and sings
his way across America, uplifting the spirits of the
poor with his homespun wisdom andf feircely fighting
for a better life for all. This moving, inspiring
portrait of an American icon is a most admirable and
triumphant surprise.
STARRING DAVID CARRADINE, RONNY COX, MELINDA DILLON,
RANDY QUAID..
RUNNING TIME 142 MINS, CERT PG, 1976 


Resources needed
Projector
Dvd player
PA
Small budget to buy/aquire films, can be put in
library afterwards 

D.