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Adalen 31 **** (1969, Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius, Roland Hedlund) – Classic Movie Review 12,272
Writer-director Bo Widerberg’s 1969 Swedish drama film Adalen 31 [The Adalen Riots] was Oscar nominated and Golden Globe nominated for the 1970 Best Foreign Language Film, and won the 1969 Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes […]
Salt of the Earth **** (1954, Rosaura Revueltas, Juan Chacón, Will Geer, David Bauer, Mervin Williams, David Sarvis) – Classic Movie Review 11,884
Director Herbert J Biberman’s remarkable 1954 drama Salt of the Earth is a unique film about political struggle, which is itself the result of a political struggle. There is plenty of get angry about here. […]
The Ballad of Joe Hill [Joe Hill] *** (1971, Thommy Berggren, Anja Schmidt, Kelvin Malave) – Classic Movie Review 10,293
Director Bo Widerberg’s 1971 Swedish historical biographical drama film The Ballad of Joe Hill [Joe Hill] stars Thommy Berggren as the legendary Swedish-American agitator Joe Hill. At the start-of-the-last-century, Joe Hill (Berggren), a Swedish immigrant […]
The Revolutionary *** (1970, Jon Voight, Seymour Cassel, Robert Duvall, Jennifer Salt) – Classic Movie Review 7934
Jon Voight gives a strong and convincing performance as the troubled college revolutionary – just called A – in director Paul Williams’s thoughtful, well-acted, understated and intelligent 1970 film The Revolutionary. Based on his own […]
Strike [Stachka] **** (1925, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov) – Classic Movie Review 7471
After several years of working in experimental theatre, the great Russian director Sergei M Eisenstein made a dazzling cinema début with this forceful 1925 evocation of a strike by oppressed Russian factory workers in the pre-revolutionary […]
Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] *** (1978, Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi) – Classic Movie Review 7376
Federico Fellini’s intriguing, teasing and provocative 1978 Italian satirical film Orchestra Rehearsal [Prova d’orchestra] follows the story of an Italian orchestra as the members assemble for a rehearsal in a run-down auditorium converted from an ancient chapel now […]
Matewan **** (1987, Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn, Ken Jenkins, Kevin Tighe) – Classic Movie Review 6,370
John Sayles’s outstanding 1987 film Matewan is a meaty, intelligent drama about a violent clash between a West Virginia 1920s coal company and striking miners. Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones and David Strathairn star. Writer-director […]