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<p>Frederick Wiseman's WELFARE (1975) depicts the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with…
<p>Tony Ganz THE NEW DEAL (1968, 5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Derek Lamb HOUSEMOVING (1969, 7.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Cinematographer and Production Assistant: Tony Ganz.)<br />Tony Ganz THE BOARD (1971, 6 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Tony Ganz Rhody Streeter Y.E.S. (1972, 8 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Rhody Streeter CLAREMONT STABLES (1972, 9 min, 16mm)<br />Rhody Streeter Tony Ganz HUBERT'S (1972, 6 min, 16mm)<br…
<p>"A bank job getaway gone awry - seen that before. But not quite like Alex Cox's version of bandits on the lam seeking shelter in a deserted desert town. Well, seemingly deserted. The bandits, in this case, are Clash front man Joe Strummer, Cox regular Sy Richardson, Dick Rude, and, in tow, Courtney Love. The dusty, hellish town has two occupants: a gang of sun-addled desperadoes, many drawn…
<p>Tony Ganz Rhody Streeter<br />THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE (aka SUN CITY) (1971, 8.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />HONEYMOON HOTEL (1971, 3.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />RISEN INDEED (aka CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST) (1972, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />HOI - VILLAGE LIFE IN TONGA (1967-69, 8.5-min excerpt, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />HELP-LINE (1972, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />WOMAN UNLIMITED (1972, 4 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br…
<p>"Oregon, 1845. Three pioneer families in covered wagons are making the treacherous journey west led by Stephen Meek when they realize he no longer knows the way. Is Meek incompetent, or is this sabotage? That question soon becomes the least of their worries as their water supplies dwindle and a Native American man is discovered following them, eventually to be taken prisoner. Isolated from the…
<p>"The Western goes Northern in Zacharias Kunuk's masterful third feature, co-directed with ATANARJUAT actor Natar Ungalaaq. Drawing inspiration from John Ford's seminal 1954 Western THE SEARCHERS (from which MALIGLUTIT takes its English title, sans article), this captivating, crystalline rescue-revenge story, set across the Arctic tundra of 1913 Nunavut, has an Inuk caribou hunter (Benjamin…
<p>"Abandoned by her family as an unwed mother and sold as a prostitute to soldiers by a traveling salesman, Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis) decides to live as a man. As 'Jo,' she settles in the shabby mining town of Ruby City and becomes a frontiersman. She learns to shoot, raise and shear sheep, and eventually earns enough money to buy property and a herd of her own. When a cattle company starts…
<p>Tony Ganz Rhody Streeter<br />THE BEST OF YOUR LIFE (aka SUN CITY) (1971, 8.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />HONEYMOON HOTEL (1971, 3.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />RISEN INDEED (aka CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST) (1972, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />HOI - VILLAGE LIFE IN TONGA (1967-69, 8.5-min excerpt, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />HELP-LINE (1972, 5.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />WOMAN UNLIMITED (1972, 4 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br…
<p>Tony Ganz THE NEW DEAL (1968, 5 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Derek Lamb HOUSEMOVING (1969, 7.5 min, 16mm-to-DCP. Cinematographer and Production Assistant: Tony Ganz.)<br />Tony Ganz THE BOARD (1971, 6 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Tony Ganz Rhody Streeter Y.E.S. (1972, 8 min, 16mm-to-DCP)<br />Rhody Streeter CLAREMONT STABLES (1972, 9 min, 16mm)<br />Rhody Streeter Tony Ganz HUBERT'S (1972, 6 min, 16mm)<br…
<p>With DEAD MAN, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country's legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) has hardly arrived in the godforsaken outpost of Machine before he's…