[matilda] SOTE Film night: SAT 4th March, Radio Alice

[dan thomas]

Hi, This Sat, 4 Mar, (7.00)Salt Of The Earth Film
Festival continues with Radio Alice, plus shorts, some
mellow music and snacks.


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. 

coming soon

The next film in the series will be Bound For Glory by

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.'

In his fifty-five year lifetime, Woody Guthrie wrote
over 1000 songs. He sang about Dust Bowl refugees,
love and hate, migrant workers, children, peace and
war, hoboes, work and play, unions, bad times and good
times. Through all his tunes runs a basic respect for
the mystery and glory of the human adventure.


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

as well as the film, their will be a night of 'songs
of struggle' from Euan McColl to Billy Bragg, from
RATM, to the Specials, from Soweto to Chile, if you
can play or sing and know a song or two, the mike will
be yours

date TBA



		
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