Matewan and Roger and me and me

[RainDog]

I had a "labor movie" weekend and watched Matewan a couple of times because I hadn't seen it for a while,

and the watched Roger and Me cause I hadn't seen it for a while.

...and I just have to say, that Roger and Me is now one of my favorite Christmas movies.

If you haven't seen it in a while, or never have, you HAVE TO see the end, where

HERE BE A SPOILER





I'M NOT KIDDING....


Roger Smith quotes Dickens (DICKENS!!!!) ---NO irony there---while the woman is being evicted from her house on Christmas Eve.

So who is going to make the "Bush and Me" sequel? Someone who is a vet, who can juxtapose Bush's beginning of fighting in Iraq with his cutting of vet benefits on the same day or so would be fitting.

Along with the "leave you oil alone while we attack you" Bush address to the Iraqi people.

And as far as Matewan, that one is one of my two favorite Sayles' movies...the other one is The Secret of Roan Inish.

Roan Inish makes me cry everytime.

So...other "alternative" Christmas movies? How about "Breaking the Waves?"

[A HERETIC I AM]

1. I loved Matewan. Every time i see a Pinkerton guard i want to hurl....

both ways.....vomit and hurl a rock at the guy. But i realize that is pointless. Still, to know that Pinkerton made much of his fortune and the name for his company crushing unions all over the country makes me resent them wherever i see them doing security work.

[leanings]

2. Matewan is a great movie.

But it plays pretty fast and loose with the facts of what happened during the Massacre.

[Ernesto]

3. While teaching UNION apprenticeship classes

I featured both of these films every year. The "kids" loved em!.. I'm sending my lefty friends copies of Matewan for Xmas this year.

[morningglory]

4. Peter Sellers made a fabulous, black and white, movie in England, called

I'm All Right, Jack. He played a small-plant union boss, mediating between his workers and the management. It was a wonderful film.

[mobuto]

5. John Ford's How Green Was my Valley

Yeah, that's it. Solidarity.