Praise for "Martin Eden", screening next Wednesday:
"Pietro Marcello’s take on Jack London’s novel is the kind of movie that restores your faith in an art form — and the craft of turning words on a page into sound and vision."
Rolling Stone

"Martin's story, shot on luminous 16-millimeter film, is interspersed with archival footage from Italy from the early 1900s: We see faded images of workers in the streets, ships docking in the harbor and a country becoming rapidly industrialized."
NPR

The 2021 DC Labor Filmfest Spring Screening Series wraps up this coming Wednesday, April 14 with MARTIN EDEN (4/14), which will include a post-screening Q&A with director/novelist John Sayles!

The series is presented by the DC Labor FilmFest and AFI Silver Theatre, with the financial support of American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE. Support MWC’s Community Services Agency ($2 from each ticket goes to CSA) and stay tuned for the 2021 DC Labor FilmFest's full May schedule!

PLUS: On the latest Labor Goes to the Movies podcast: Elise and Chris talk with director Mark Street, whose latest film is Work Songs, which travels across the country talking with ordinary working folks; cab drivers, a farmer, longshore-women, a barista. Inspired by the work of the great Studs Terkel, Work Songs is a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States at work as we face threats from automation, the gig economy and the decline of unions. Listen here or search for Labor Goes to the Movies wherever you listen to podcasts.

MARTIN EDEN
Wed, April 14, 7:00 p.m. ET
CLICK HERE for tickets: $12; $2 from each ticket purchased goes to MWC’s Community Services Agency
Event support provided by American Income Life.
Post-screening Q&A with filmmaker and novelist John Sayles!

Adapted from a 1909 novel by Jack London yet set in a provocatively unspecified moment in Italy’s history, Martin Eden is a passionate and enthralling narrative fresco in the tradition of the great Italian classics. Martin (played by the marvelously committed Luca Marinelli) is a self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his station and marry a wealthy young university student (Jessica Cressy). The dissatisfactions of working-class toil and bourgeois success lead to political awakening and destructive anxiety in this enveloping, superbly mounted bildungsroman. Winner of the Best Actor prize at the Venice Film Festival and the Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Presented by AFI Silver Theatre and the DC Labor FilmFest
Co-sponsored by NewsGuild Local 32035; Busboys & Poets, with the financial support of American Income Life, National Nurses United and IFPTE

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