It's Movie Time! Grace Lee Boggs, An American Revolutionary

… is back, free to watch on PBS through January, a special P.O.V 30th Anniversary treat.

❝Grace Lee Boggs, 98, is a Chinese American philosopher, writer, and activist in Detroit with a thick FBI file and a surprising vision of what an American revolution can be. Rooted for 75 years in the labor, civil rights and Black Power movements, she challenges a new generation to throw off old assumptions, think creatively and redefine revolution for our times. Winner, Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature, 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival. A co-presentation with the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM).❞

#Strike! Shock Doctrine & enough labor movies for a film festival

…but online as a series, called Strike! after a) the topic, b) Sergei Eisenstein's first full length film, and c) the Skokie Public Library online list of labor movies that Anna Spiro recently posted to the adj-l listserv… a public PS to Anna: I found a free online pdf version of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine and full (also free) online versions for most of the films on the list...now to decide which one to start with this evening (making this Sunday movie time more soiree than matinee). PPS: feel free to suggest more movies 

Anna wrote:

Onz upon a time — before Reagan and Thatcher and Friedman and the Chicago School of Economics — there was something called Keynesian economics [+ a mercifully brief comparison of Chicago School and Keynesian theories] and unionization. I truly feel all of the lessons of the past have been forgotten by the present generation, who need to get out there and fight for what they deserve. 

Here are some movies that perhaps should be shown during adjunct week or fair labor practices week... that would make a lot of sense these days. The list is from the Skokie (IL) public library. The banksters and their ilk have had a free ride for long enough... It's NOT just adjuncts...but people who work for Walmart, etc.   

I also again recommend at least Chapter One of Naomi Klein's' The Shock Doctrine ~ horrific and revealing in how how rights continue to be taken away from us. (We are about to get cameras inside NYS trains...)

Strike! Movies about Labor Unions

Sunday Matinee: teacher movies, 1939-1988

Celluloid stereotypes and images of teachers and the profession from Good-bye Mr Chips (1939) to Stand and Deliver (1988)...dated and sentimental, but, unlike many more contemporary portrayals, competent and respected

Full movie: To Sir, with Love (1967) for free. | FFilms.org 

Full movie: Stand and Deliver (1988) | FFilms.org 

Our Miss Brooks playlist: Another Day, Dress / Induction Notice / School TV / Hats for Mother's Day and more - YouTube 

Good Morning Miss Dove (1955)

Sunday Night at the Movies…Double Feature: Rashoman & His Girl Friday

…a drama and a comedy...watch both or whichever you are in the mood for.  Rashomon needs no introduction but I will anyway (below, reposted from Open Culture). I don't really need to tell you which is which, do I? Any subtext you care to extract from my choices is up to you. 

If you need a dose of the serious and informative, try an annotated links double header: much more than the immigration debate and about Ferguson ~ both from the Book Forum blog, Omnivore. 

Recently added to our blogroll: 

• author/poet/teacher/whatever Nathaniel C Oliver ("I Just Don't Want to Die an Adjunct"); 
• writer, teacher, mom, Midwesterner Buddhist Sonya Huber (Shadow Syllabus); \
• the name says it all ~ Bad Ass Teachers (The Death of Michael Brown, Teachers, and Racism: 10 Things Every Badass Teacher Needs To Understand), 
• Dr Michelle Kassorla (Refusing the Adjunct Route)
• former NMSU adjunct Carolyn Baker's Speaking Truth to Power

“Come on, Homer,” Marge Simpson once said to her husband before one of the cartoon family’s trips abroad, “Japan will be fun! You liked Rashomon.” Homer’s sullen reply: “That’s not how I remember it.”

BYOP: Free Movie Classics Online

Also tagged and cross-filed OT. I've been doing Halloween and Day of the Dead specials for my other blogs. Halloween poetry collections, Dead Poets readings for Halloween, Baudelaire's "La charogne" and so on for Poets and Writers Picnic, Dia de los Muertos art on Mountainair Arts. If I come across a Day of the Dead Adjunct image ~ or someone photoshops one to send me (hint, hint), I'll be sure to post it. Until then, selected Hitchcock, Welles, Kubrick, Lynch and B movies (noir and horror) can fill the cinematic trick or treat bag. 

Adjunct Noir flicks, Tales from the Adjunct Crypt, Vincent Price as a vengeful adjunct...think about it...

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Free Movies: Watch the Classics and Gems Online via Open Culture

Almost a year ago, we started scouring the web for free movies – for films worth your precious time. We started with 75, and now we're above 200. What will you find on the ever-growing list of Free Movies Online? 

Films by Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Brian DePalma, Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Fritz Lang, Elia Kazan, Howard Hawks, Ida Lupino, Ken Loach, Akira Kurosawa, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese. 

The list covers many different genres (comedies, film noir, indies, documentaries, short and animated films, even some noteworthy B movies) and spans the entire history of cinema, moving from early silent films to contemporary movies. It also features brilliant performances by major actresses and actors – too many to name right here. 

For copyright reasons, there's generally a heavy emphasis on the classics. If you have time to spare, check out the full collection of Free Movies Online. And if we're missing any good ones, please feel free to send us your tips or add them to the comments section below.

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