Thursday at 1.30pm (SBS1): "The Coca Cola Case": unions and lawyers take on the big American corporation and try to bring it to book for its appalling abuse of workers' rights at its operations around the world. A one-hour Canadian documentary.
Thursday at 11.10pm (SBS2): "Once you're born, you can no longer hide" (Italy, 2005): A touching film about a young Italian boy, Sandro, who is forced to confront the reality of his privileged existence when he encounters refugees trying to get into Italy. One review says, and I concur: "The basic plot sounds like it could be tedious--a boy from a wealthy industrialist family who is thought drowned is saved by a refugee boat. He becomes especially close to a Romanian brother and sister and in many ways ties his own fate to theirs. The film is so beautifully directed--subtle, never obvious, not belabored or sentimental--that it feels as much like it is observed so much as created for the screen."
Saturday at 1pm (SBS1): "Black Music: An American Revolution", Part 2 of this documentary takes the story from the civil rights era to gangsta rap and overproduced R&B; in my view, from treasure to trash, though I know some comrades will strongly disagree!
Saturday night: two very different films...
At 9.30pm, SBS2 is screening "Crossed Tracks" ("Roman de Gare") (France, 2007), a Hitchcockian thriller directed by noted French film director Claude Lelouch. Haven't seen this, but here's the blurb: "The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?"
At 10.50pm over on ABC2, you can see"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) by Frank Capra. One of the best known and loved films of the 20th century. Heart-tugging small-town populism as Everyman George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, reviews the impact of his life on his community. As he does so he discovers that his actions over the years, although seemingly relatively inconsequential at the time, have lifted up everyone in the town, except dastardly Moneybags Mr Potter who is out to wreck the town for his own selfish pecuniary motives. The film is an ode to human decency and is one movie everyone should see at least once in their lives. Difficult to believe that the director was a registered Republican! See this for some interesting background on one of Hollywood's best 20th century directors: http://www.crossleft.org/node/6547
Thursday at 11.10pm (SBS2): "Once you're born, you can no longer hide" (Italy, 2005): A touching film about a young Italian boy, Sandro, who is forced to confront the reality of his privileged existence when he encounters refugees trying to get into Italy. One review says, and I concur: "The basic plot sounds like it could be tedious--a boy from a wealthy industrialist family who is thought drowned is saved by a refugee boat. He becomes especially close to a Romanian brother and sister and in many ways ties his own fate to theirs. The film is so beautifully directed--subtle, never obvious, not belabored or sentimental--that it feels as much like it is observed so much as created for the screen."
Saturday at 1pm (SBS1): "Black Music: An American Revolution", Part 2 of this documentary takes the story from the civil rights era to gangsta rap and overproduced R&B; in my view, from treasure to trash, though I know some comrades will strongly disagree!
Saturday night: two very different films...
At 9.30pm, SBS2 is screening "Crossed Tracks" ("Roman de Gare") (France, 2007), a Hitchcockian thriller directed by noted French film director Claude Lelouch. Haven't seen this, but here's the blurb: "The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?"
At 10.50pm over on ABC2, you can see"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946) by Frank Capra. One of the best known and loved films of the 20th century. Heart-tugging small-town populism as Everyman George Bailey, played by Jimmy Stewart, reviews the impact of his life on his community. As he does so he discovers that his actions over the years, although seemingly relatively inconsequential at the time, have lifted up everyone in the town, except dastardly Moneybags Mr Potter who is out to wreck the town for his own selfish pecuniary motives. The film is an ode to human decency and is one movie everyone should see at least once in their lives. Difficult to believe that the director was a registered Republican! See this for some interesting background on one of Hollywood's best 20th century directors: http://www.crossleft.org/node/6547
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