<div id="RTEContent"> hi, <br> <br> 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.<br> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p> <br> <pre><span style="">'The bloody Matewan massacre was the Alamo of the<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">fierce struggle that raged in the coal fields of West<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">Virginia in the 1920's. Directed/screenwriter John<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">Sayles (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Brother
from<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">another Planet) has told the tale of bitter clash<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">between union and coal company with all the beauty,<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">simplicity and quiet power of the folk ballads that<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">still ring in those green hills. Matewan draws on the<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">same moral brawn that Steinback and Ford flexed in The<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">Grapes of Wrath and celebrates the same compelling<o:p></o:p></span></pre> <pre><span style="">virtues.'<br><br><br>then <br><br>Thursday Dec 8th<br><br><br>Roger and Me<br><br></span><span style="">Roger and Me: Michael Moore <o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><br><br>ROGER AND ME was Moores major first film is a feature-length documentary <br>film <o:p></o:p></span><span
style="">chronicling the efforts of the world's largest<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> corporation, General Motors,<br>as it turns its hometown<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town. <br>In his quest to<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> discover why GM would want to do such a thing, <br><o:p></o:p></span><span style="">filmmaker Michael Moore, a Flint native, attempts to <o:p></o:p></span><span style="">meet the chairman,<br>Roger Smith, and invite him out for<o:p></o:p></span><span style="">a few beers up in Flint to <br>"talk things over". In<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> between his efforts to see Smith, Moore, the son</span><span style=""><br>of a<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> Flint autoworker, takes us on a bizarre journey<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> through Flint accompanied<br>along the way by Ronald<o:p></o:p></span><span style="">Reagan, Miss America, Pat Boone, Bob "Newlywed Game"<o:p></o:p></span><span style="">Eubanks, <br>and
TV evangelist Robert Schuller--all of<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> whom show up to save Flint from destruction. <o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><br> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/dogeatdogfilms/synopsis.html">http://www.michaelmoore.com/dogeatdogfilms/synopsis.html</a></span><span style=""> <br><br>others coming in the festival<br><br></span><span style=""></span><span style=""></span><span style="">Salt of the Earth:<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><br>In the history of Hollywood there are few films with a<br><o:p></o:p></span><span style="">story behind its making as dramatically riveting as<o:p></o:p></span><span style="">that of Salt of the Earth. <br>Made during the height of<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> the McCarthy era by a group of blacklisted filmmakers<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> <br>who were among the best and the
brightest Hollywood<o:p></o:p></span><span style=""> talent of the day <o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></span><span style=""><a href="http://www.organa.com/salt.html">http://www.organa.com/salt.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span><br><span style=""><br>http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=42666<br><br></span><span style=""><br></span>Radio Alice (111m, 2004, G Chiesa) <br><br>Revisiting the Italy of the radical Seventies and its obsessions<br>with class struggle, creative anarchy and macrame ponchos, Radio Alice<br>provides a fascinating glimpse of a time of protest. In a working-class<br>district on the outskirts of Bologna, Sgualo (Tommaso Ramenghi) and<br>Pelo (Marco Luisi) hang out at the local cafe, allergic to gainful<br>employment. They don’t mind the occasional shady job for local hood<br>Marangon (Valerio Binasco), but they’re convinced there’s little future<br>whichever way they turn. Then they discover
Radio Alice – the poster<br>child of the Italian free radio movement – and get in touch with a new<br>radical political consciousness that is spreading among the young.<br><br>Antonio Negri – a revolt that never ends <br><br>(52m, 2004, (A Weltz and A Pichler) <br><br>1 July, 1997. An elderly man arrives in Italy on a flight from<br>Paris where he is immediately arrested by special forces of the<br>Carabinieri. Antonio Negri had finally returned voluntarily to his home<br>country after 15 years of exile. A Revolt That Never Ends profiles the<br>controversial life and times of this university professor, philosopher,<br>militant, prisoner, refugee, and so-called ‘enemy of the state.’ It<br>traces Negri’s roots in the history of radical left-wing movements in<br>Italy during the Sixties and Seventies, illustrated through archival<br>footage of workers’ strikes, factory occupations, terrorist actions,<br>violent street confrontations, political repression, and government<br>trials of
dissidents. During these tumultuous decades, finding himself<br>branded as an evil ideologue with alleged ties to the Red Brigades<br>terrorist group, Negri spent ten years in prison and fourteen years in<br>exile in Paris. His book Empire, coauthored with Michael Hardt, is an<br>international bestseller.<br><br><br>Bound For Glory<br>Hal Ashby<br><br>Another US independent cinema classic, this is a brilliant biopic of the great<br>Woodie Guthrie: hobo, musician, activist...<br><br>'Speaking out for freedom, celebrating life, proclaiming the dignity and<br>rights of the underdog — Woody Guthrie communicated through his folks<br>songs. This crusty and creative wanderer was not afraid to express his<br>opinions. Above all else, he was a humanist who never got out of touch<br>with people.'<br><br>http://www.spiritualityhealth.com/newsh/items/moviereview/item_6950.html<br><br><span style=""></span><span style="">Get over It<br>Jay Baker(<br><br>Mush of the uk is booming, but it seems to
have passed Rotherham by...<br><br>a documentary<br><br>What the director says about his film ...<br></span><span style="">www,mediaactivist.com/documentaries/html<br><br></span><span style=""></span><span style=""><br>plus other films, doc, discussions and debates<br>check the matilda website for updates. Help needed with <br>festival,etc.... <br><br><br><br><br></span><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I made </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Get Over It</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> under </span></font><i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">SilenceBreaker Films</span></font></i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> to find answers to questions raised in the company's first film, the Rotherham community project </span></font><b><font
color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Tales from Nowhere</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">.<br>Rotherham is a town that's never quite been able to effectively recover<br>from the local industry job losses of the Thatcher Years</span></font><br><span style=""><br><br></span><br><span style=""><br><br><br><br></span><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I made </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Get Over It</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> under </span></font><i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">SilenceBreaker Films</span></font></i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> to find answers to questions raised in the company's first film, the Rotherham community
project </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Tales from Nowhere</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">.<br>Rotherham is a town that's never quite been able to effectively recover<br>from the local industry job losses of the Thatcher Years</span></font><br><span style=""><br><br></span><br><span style=""><br></span><span style=""><br>plus other films, doc, discussions and debates<br>check the matilda website for updates. Help needed with <br>festival,etc.... <br><br><br><br><br></span><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I made </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Get Over It</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> under </span></font><i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">SilenceBreaker
Films</span></font></i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> to find answers to questions raised in the company's first film, the Rotherham community project </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Tales from Nowhere</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">.<br>Rotherham is a town that's never quite been able to effectively recover<br>from the local industry job losses of the Thatcher Years</span></font><br><span style=""><br><br></span><br><span style=""><br><br><br><br></span><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I made </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Get Over It</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> under </span></font><i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span
style="font-size: 12px;">SilenceBreaker Films</span></font></i><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> to find answers to questions raised in the company's first film, the Rotherham community project </span></font><b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Tales from Nowhere</span></font></b><font color="#ffffff" face="Arial" size="-1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">.<br>Rotherham is a town that's never quite been able to effectively recover<br>from the local industry job losses of the Thatcher Years</span></font><br><span style=""><br><br></span></pre> <br> </div><p>
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