Salt Of The Earth Film' Festival: next showing

Matilda Social Centre is hosting another big film event.

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, continues with.


Thursday 26th Jan
7.00pm
Matilda Social Centre,
Matilda St

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


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.'

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


The Wobblies
(Stewart Bird and Deborah Shaffer, US, 1979, 89
minutes.)

an exhaustive but fascinating doc about the IWW, The
Industrial Workers of The World (I.W.W.) nicknamed
'The Wobblies' were an very influential radical labor
organization that was very active from the late 19th
century up until the 1920’s, when they declined from
prominence. Their political and ideological ideas made
them unique from other labor organizations at the
time. Essentially, they wanted to make workers more
class-conscious and unite them in "One Big Union."

A Different World is Possible”

Directed in 2001 by
Massimo Sani together with 32 other directors --
including Francesco Maselli, Gillo Pontecorvo, (Battle
of Algiers)
Ettore Scola, Gabriele Salvatores and Daniele Segre.
[120 minutes]

This important, balanced and beautifully made
documentary presents the events surrounding the G-8
summit in Genoa in July 2001. Citto Maselli, Mario
Monicelli, Gillo Pontecorvo, Ettore Scola, Ricky
Tognazzi, Francesca Comencini, Pasquale Scimeca,
Daniele Segre and the Taviani brothers are among the
many contributing directors.

"We have made a film to tell the extraordinary events
during G8 day in Genoa.In particular the animated
desire to contribute to give voice to millions of
human beings to whom the right to participate in
decisions about their future have been denied, the
future of the world''.

Panther( Mario Van Peebles)

A very Hollywood but exciting film about the rise
and fall of the Black Panther Movement in the US in
the 60's plus shorts


Get over It
(Jay Baker)

a documentary

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

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

'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, docs, discussions and debates
check the matilda website for updates or to get
involved.