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...Harlan County USA. At the Orson Welles One, Nightly...
...Harlan County, USA. Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary of miners and a coal strike in Harlan Country, Kentucky is very worth seeing. Kopple skillfully weaves a pastiche of film clips from the 1930s, when the county was known as "Bloody Harlan," footage of UMWA leaders from John L. Lewis to Tony Boyle, Jock Yablonski, and Arnold Miller, and always the 13-month strike that didn't end until miner Lawrence Jones was murdered by scabs. The music is first-rate--all old union songs, some by local hero David Morris of Ivydale, West Virginia, Kopple's camera is discreet...
...Education for Action, the Task Force on Affirmative Action, Prof. John K. Galbraith and Robert Ginn (OCS-OCL). The Coop Board of Directors has agreed to discontinue purchase of Stevens products until the labor conflict is resolved. This Thursday, the Orson Welles Cinema will hold a benefit showing of Harlan County, U.S.A., a film about contemporary miners' struggles. All proceeds will go to the boycott fund...
...those without a full knowledge of issues and personalities in the Mine Workers today will be left a little befuddled. But all in all that doesn't matter. Hart Perry's cinematography is excellent--it could hardly be better--and the music is tremendous, all old union songs. Harlan County, USA stands as a testimonial to a people and a struggle that the American dream somehow forgot; Kopple's film stands as a great documentary. It inruriates without becoming polemic, capturing a simple courage that brings admiration. This is a film bade by a leftist, and come from a leftist...
...women of Harlan Country who shine particularly. They are not pretty women; they've been through too much for that. But they have dignity and character, and they stand by their men. Sometimes, when the men sit, they stand up for them. Two are especially outstanding--Sudy Crusenberry and Lois Scott. Crusenberry is stringy, with a long horsey face; she looks like the breaking up of a hard winter. Scott is gregarious, aggressive, and big--a tough woman. At one point she laughs and reaches into her prodigious bosom and comes up with a Colt .32, and, still laughing, replaces...