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Cancelled Golden Globes Costs LA Workers $80 Million

2008-01-10 23:12:14 by John Campea in The Movie Blog
 
...workers are normally busy this week preparing elaborate floral arrangements that studios ship to the hotel rooms of Globe nominees. Even more elaborate displays are readied for the eventual winners. Not this year. I would say it will probably affect us to the extent that well be down about 40 to 50 percent, said owner George Woods So far, it...
 
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Metropolis: A Film Far Ahead of its Time

2007-12-20 11:59:54 by Gautam in Broken Projector
 
...workers labour in 10-hour shifts repeatedly to survive while the upper-class citizens called the Thinkers lead a life of luxury and endless entertainment. The city is run by Johann Joh Frederson, who also designed it The workers are planning a revolt against Frederson but they are convinced by Maria, an evangelical figure, that they must...
 
Tags: film, metropolis, workers move, workers, science fiction film, gigantic silent film, workers labour, workers city, conversation freder throws
 
 
 
 
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The Letter (1940)

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2008-03-03 13:13:00 by Campaspe in Self-Styled Siren
...workers stir, then the camera moves in toward the plantation house and shows a man who clutches himself as he staggers down the steps, Bette Davis in pursuit as she empties her revolver into him, her face an impassive executioner's mask that each viewer must spend the rest of the movie interpreting But that's the socko finale to the...
 
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8/11: British Sounds

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2008-08-11 22:08:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...workers discussing working conditions and the possibility of socialism; some Maoist students trying to rewrite Beatles songs with more revolutionary lyrics; a bloody hand in the snow reaching for a red flag These images are simple in every sense. Each image communicates a single idea or documents a single situation, and the aesthetics with...
 
Tags: film, revolutionary film, british, revolutionary purpose, purpose, sounds, film passion, british sounds, film remains
 
 
 
 
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Kurosawa Blog-a-Thon: All Work and No Play...

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2007-11-22 08:19:05 by Thom in Film of the Year
...workers relocated to Tokyo to make optical instruments for military aircraft in the latter days of World War II. Think of it as a tragic spin on Rosie the Riveter propaganda Japanese style. At the onset, these dedicated factory women are charged with increasing productivity 50%, and desperate to overcome tedium, illness, injury and separation...
 
Tags: kurosawa, kurosawa employs repetition, optical instruments kurosawa, kurosawa film, film, productivity, quiet film, injury effect productivity, akira kurosawa
 
 
 
 
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The Polish Documentary Movement 1947-60

2008-05-12 22:42:17 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog
 
...Workers Party, and in November 1949 a filmmakers congress with some two hundred participants condemned much of what had been made in the four years after the war, and agreed to the compulsory imposition of Socialist Realism more or less across the board. Incidentally, The Coal Mine was one of the victims: it was banned for alleged formalism,...
 
Tags: movement, polish documentary, documentary movement, polish documentary movement, free cinema movement, polish documentary cinema, documentary, polish film industry, film industry
 
 
 
 
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Matewan (1987)/Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

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2007-10-22 13:58:17 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Workers of America (UMWA). He has been asked to come to Mingo County, West Virginia, to organize the miners working for the Stone Mountain Mining Company, referred to throughout the film as The Company." The train stops outside of town, and a group of black miners brought in by The Company to work in place of the striking miners are told to...
 
Tags: county, mingo county, documentary harlan county, coal miners, american coal miners, harlan county, harlan county strike, coal miners widow, miners
 
 
 
 
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Strike Talks Hit A Black Friday

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2007-12-10 22:05:55 by Fred Schruers in Portfolio.com: Hollywood Deal
...workers' civil liberties. As historian Martin Zanger details in a paper entitled "Politics of Confrontation: Upton Sinclair and the Launching of the ACLU in Southern California, "Sinclair found his moderate socialist faith in peaceful revolution dampened by anti-union and radical activity in the country as a whole and in southern California...
 
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Better Late Than Never: a brief 2007 review

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2008-02-13 00:43:00 by Brian in Hell on Frisco Bay
...workers who did their best to explain something they hadnt seen but definitely an experience they all knew quite well. The title Endo is not referring to the BMX trick-riding term, but a term for contract workers at (mostly) mall stores and fast food establishments, working until the 'end of contract'. This information helped me better...
 
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Polish Documentaries: Return to the Old Town (1954)

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2008-04-14 20:59:29 by Michael Brooke in Kinoblog