Tonight’s film is something I dug up the other day. In 1986, TWA flight attendants went on strike when scumbag venture capitalist Carl Icahn bought the company and mandated a 44% wage cut on the
In the thread on cop media from a couple of days ago, a few people in comments mentioned how cops in early films were not portrayed as heroes, but rather were often bumbling idiots. This reminded me o
Since we are talking about police violence these days, here’s a film produced by the Illinois Labor History Society, I assume in the 60s, about the Memorial Day Massacre of 1937, when our old fr
I don’t really know where this is from, but this is a 2 minute clip on yellow fever prevention in Colombia, sometime in the 70s. Spray those chemicals! It’s an interesting sort of document
Tonight’s film is the 1935 Duke Ellington vehicle Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. Directed by Fred Waller, who was a director of short films, it highlights Ellington’s new com
On the Criterion Channel right now, you can watch a series of films by and about women. Called “Tell Me: Women Filmmakers, Women’s Stories,” it’s around 25 films, mostly but no
One of our richer film collections is of rock stars being jerks. And therefore, I think it is well worth our time to watch this Lou Reed interview from 1975 in Sydney. Lou was a very nice man in the 1
I rewatched Anatomy of a Murder the other night. It’s such a great film. Otto Preminger directed it and managed to get into difficult topics so directly that it feels like a film from twenty yea