[van-announce] Video Screening: Matewan

[Pat S]

Matewan

This film will be screening at:
SFU Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings
Vancouver, BC
6:30pm - Friday, October 4th

Mary McDonnell (Independence Day), David Strathairm (The Firm), also star in 
the film that Leonard Maltin calls “compelling and compassionate…John Sayles 
makes every note ring true.”

Earnest labour leader Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, A Time To Kill) arrives in 
Matewan to better the lives of the men and women of this “company town” 
through unionization. But in his efforts to organize the workers of the 
Stone Mountain Coal Company, he ignites a powderkeg of racial hostility, 
corruption and betrayal – and touches off one of the most violent incidents 
in the history of the Coal Wars of 1920-1921.

Haskell Waxler's (Bus Rider’s Union) burnished cinematography and the film's 
deft production design fluently recreate an era when scabs, spies and 
murderous thugs stood between the miner and the fruits of his toil. Matewan 
is a triumph of the human spirit. (Approx. 142 min)

http://vancouver.iww.ca/news/20020909video.htm



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