Labor goes to the Movies

Movie Club Discussion: The Whistle at Eaton Falls

Kathy M. Newman on “Paradise Lost: The Spectacular Failure of The Whistle at Eaton Falls.”Newman is an English professor at Carnegie Mellon who writes regularly on class and culture and who’s currently at work on a book entitled “Backstory: Film, Television, and Social Class in the 1950s,” which includes an entire chapter on the rarely-seen – and recently restored – 1951 film The Whistle at Eaton Falls, which – along with all the 2021 films -- is still available in the AFI Silver’s DC Labor FilmFest Virtual Screening Room.
PLUS: Viewer reaction to Miss Marx, the film about Karl Marx’s youngest daughter.
If you’d like to be part of our final weekly conversation about labor films, join us this Thursday, May 27 at 7p ET; RSVP here.
Produced by Chris Garlock
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Movie Club Discussion: Miss Marx, pro & con

Viewer reaction to Ida B. Wells: A Passion for Justice, plus Elise and Chris get into the critical weeds on Miss Marx, the film about Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Elise loved it but Chris isn’t so sure. But hey, you be the judge; you can watch Miss Marx and all of the films released so far in this year’s DC Labor FilmFest in the AFI Silver’s DC Labor FilmFest Virtual Screening Room.
PLUS: sneak previews of the films opening this week, THE WHISTLE AT EATON FALLS (5/18) and NASRIN (5/20); check out the complete line-up for the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest.
If you’d like to be part of our weekly conversation about labor films, join us Thursdays at 7p ET; RSVP here.
Produced by Chris Garlock
@AFISilver @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 @DCLaborFilmFest
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Movie Club discussion: Ida B. Wells (and zombies)

We cover a lot of ground on our first Labor Goes to the Movies Movie Club session, from an in-depth discussion of Ida B. Wells to the worker origins of zombies. Plus we get a fascinating glimpse into Elise’s Detroit theater roots and…is The Death of Stalin a labor movie?
Plus the trailer for Miss Marx, which opens on Tuesday May 11; check out the complete line-up for the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest.
If you’d like to be part of our weekly conversation about labor films, join us Thursdays at 7p ET; RSVP here.
Produced by Chris Garlock
@AFISilver @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 @DCLaborFilmFest
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Silver Streams on Nine to Five at 40

Introducing Silver Streams, the terrific podcast from the programming team at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, the longtime home of the DC Labor FilmFest. We love working with Todd, Abby and Ben and we also love their podcast and wanted to share it with you to give you a sense of just how deep their knowledge and enthusiasm for the movies is. In this episode, Todd, Abby and Ben go deep – and I mean deep -- on NINE TO FIVE for its 40th anniversary and I think you’ll really enjoy their insights into the film and everything that makes this box office hit an enduring labor classic.
Subscribe to Silver Streams here, where you can also check out all their fascinating episodes. Be sure to check out the line-up for the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest and if you’d like to be part of the conversation about labor films, don’t miss the weekly Labor Goes to the Movies podcast Movie Club discussions Thursdays at 7p ET; RSVP here.
Produced by Chris Garlock
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Haymarket’s relevance 135 years later

Labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier(CUNY School of Labor) join Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle director Adrian Prawica on a special May Day discussion, moderated by LGTTM’s Chris Garlock. Their wide-ranging discussion not only connects the events of 1886 in Chicago to the broader world at the time, but to our own lives and struggles today, 135 years later.
The discussion was conducted online with audience participation as part of the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest and co-sponsored by the Global Labor Film Festival Network and the Labor Goes to the Movies podcast. These open discussions will continue during the month of May on Thursdays at 7p ET as part of the DC Labor FilmFest; RSVP here.
Produced by Chris Garlock
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Best of the DC Labor FilmFest: Todd’s picks

In Part 2 of our chat with Todd Hitchcock, Director of Programming at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, he picks out some of his favorite selections in the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest, now underway in the AFI’s Virtual Screening Room.
The new film Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle is being screened free online today by the Global Labor Film Festival Network, and includes two online discussions with director Adrian Prawica on May Day, Saturday, May 1, one at 8p Eastern time with labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier(CUNY School of Labor), the other at 8p Pacific time with Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz).
Produced by Chris Garlock
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Behind the velvet curtains with AFI’s Todd Hitchcock

Chris talks with Todd Hitchcock, Director of Programming at the American Film Institute Silver Theatre and Cultural Center. In Part 1 of our chat with Todd, he talks about how AFI has kept the movies coming during the pandemic, and we get a peek behind the glitz and glamour of attending star-studded film festivals at Cannes, Berlin and Toronto, as Todd reveals some of the workaday details of being a film programmer at one of the nation’s premier movie art houses.
Today’s show also includes the trailer for Work Songs, which opens the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest this week.
The new film Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle is being screened free online now by the Global Labor Film Festival Network, and includes two online discussions with director Adrian Prawica on May Day, Saturday, May 1, one at 8p Eastern time with labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier(CUNY School of Labor), the other at 8p Pacific time with Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz).
Produced by Chris Garlock
@AFISilver @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 #AdrianPrawica @GeorgetownKILWP @JosephMcCartin @stevebrier @DCLaborFilmFest
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HAYMARKET: The Bomb, The Anarchists, The Labor Struggle

Chris and Elise talk with director Adrian Prawica about his new film Haymarket: The Bomb, the Anarchists, the Labor Struggle, which is being screened free online this coming week by the Global Labor Film Festival Network, which will also include two online discussions with Adrian on May Day, Saturday, May 1, one at 8p Eastern time with labor historians Joe McCartin (Georgetown University) and Steve Brier (CUNY School of Labor), the other at 8p Pacific time with Labor Studies Professor Dana Frank (UC Santa Cruz).
Adrian is an award-winning cinematographer, director, video producer, and content creator. Based in Chicago, his work in journalism, documentary and advertising has been seen on major television networks in the United States and abroad by millions of viewers. He’s done everything from Super Bowl commercials to award-winning documentary films; he’s a certified Phantom Flex high speed camera operator and tech, and he works with both the Arri Alexa, and RED cameras, and we talk about how technology has democratized filmmaking. Adrian was born in Poland and immigrated to the United States at the age of ten, and we also explore how that background has informed his filmmaking.
You can also celebrate May Day by watching Work Songs (we interviewed director Mark Street on our April 9 show); get your tickets here. And stay tuned for updates very soon on the upcoming 2021 DC Labor FilmFest line-up!
Produced by Chris Garlock
@AFISilver @dclabor @LaborHeritage1 #AdrianPrawica @GeorgetownKILWP @JosephMcCartin @stevebrier
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John Sayles on Martin Eden

Chris talks with director (Matewan, 8 Men Out) and novelist (Union Dues, Yellow Earth) John Sayles, about Martin Eden, Pietro Marcello’s adaptation of Jack London’s autobiographical novel. “The part both in the book and the movie that always meant the most to me is the part where he's whacking away at that typewriter,” says Sayles. “I actually had an electric typewriter; it was the first thing I ever bought with my own money from shoveling driveways in the winter and mowing lawns and things like that. I had a whole wall papered with rejection slips.” Sayles has a lot of insight into the film, not only as a director and writer, but from the perspective of a politically engaged artist. CLICK HERE to watch the video version!Martin Eden trailer here.
Celebrate May Day by watching Work Songs! Get your tickets here. And stay tuned for updates on the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest line-up.
Produced by Chris Garlock
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Mark Street’s Work Songs

Elise and Chris talk with director Mark Street, whose latest film is Work Songs, which travels across the country talking with ordinary working folks; cab drivers, a farmer, longshore-women, a barista. Inspired by the work of the great Studs Terkel, Work Songs is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work as we face threats from automation, the gig economy and the decline of unions.
Celebrate May Day by watching Work Songs! Get your tickets here.
Other links:Oiltowns (2017)Happy? (2000)In Defense of Street Photography in an iPhone AgeSpotify playlist for WORK SONGS: enjoy, add and share work-related songs!
Coming up in the DC Labor FilmFest: MARTIN EDEN (April 14); CLICK HERE for tickets; Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker and novelist John Sayles!
Produced by Chris Garlock
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