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The Pied Piper 1972
Jacques Demy’s Pied Piper deserves a higher profile than it has among the director’s works. Demy’s vision of the middle ages is delightfully nasty, with ignorant, selfish old men in ridiculous hats greedily holding onto their share of a dirty, ramshackle world. As the piper, Donovan is decidedly unmedieval, but this works; his hippie-minstrel character exists observe and judge the world around him, like a god disguised as a beggar. The work of making the world believable falls on the…
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American Dream 1990
While Harlan County, USA is rightly held up as one of the great documentaries, Barbara Kopple’s other strike documentary is every bit its equal. With great empathy and uncompromising focus, American Dream chronicles the contentious start and slow failure of the 1985–1986 Hormel strike in Austin, Minnesota. Through this tragic human story, Kopple paints a damning picture of the relationship between labor and capital in the Reagan era that still feels uncomfortably relevant.
Unlike the Harlan County coalminers’ strike, the…
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