2008 Labor Film Special Events
All films shown at the Eastman House Dryden Theater, 900 East Avenue.
Friday, June 20, 8:00 pm
THE ORGANIZER (I COMPAGNI, Mario Monicelli, Italy 1963, 126 min., Italian with subtitles).
New 35mm print! Marcello Mastroianni stars as a socialist labor organizer in turn-of-the-century
Turin who helps textile workers fight for better working conditions. From the director of Big Deal on
Madonna Street, “this is one of the great Italian films of the 60s, it cries
out for rediscovery.” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)
Co-presented by the Rochester Labor Council.
Friday, February 22, 8:00 pm
KILLER OF SHEEP (Charles Burnett, US 1977, 83 min., 35mm). The life of
a working class family affected by unemployment in the Watts district of Los Angeles is
poetically evoked by writer/director Burnett in his feature debut. A landmark in American
independent filmmaking, Burnett’s lyrical, elliptical style is marked by a frequently
perfect matching of music to his haunting images. One of the first films elected to the
Library of Congress’ National Film Registry, Killer of Sheep was recently preserved
on 35mm by the UCLA Film & Television archive.
Friday, April 28 8:00 pm
WORKINGMAN’S DEATH (Michael Glawogger, Austria 2005, 122 min.) Screening this documentary on Workers Memorial Day fittingly commemorates the significance of heavy manual labor and its cost in human life. The film’s segments on Ukrainian coal miners, Indonesian sulphur miners, Nigerian slaughterhouse workers, Pakistani shipbreakers, and Chinese steel workers, like the photographs of Sebastiano Salgado, both celebrate and lament the labor it depicts.
Friday, June 20, 8:00 pm
THE ORGANIZER (I COMPAGNI, Mario Monicelli, Italy 1963, 126 min., Italian with subtitles).
New 35mm print! Marcello Mastroianni stars as a socialist labor organizer in turn-of-the-century
Turin who helps textile workers fight for better working conditions. From the director of Big Deal on
Madonna Street, “this is one of the great Italian films of the 60s, it cries
out for rediscovery.” (Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader)
Co-presented by the Rochester Labor Council.
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