Film Screening - Matewan (John Sayles, 1987)
Sponsor(s): Nicholas School-Miscellaneous Events, Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), and Center for Documentary Studies (CDS)
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Introduced by Charlie Thompson, undergraduate studies director at the Center for Documentary Studies and lecturer in cultural anthropology. Q&A to follow. (There will be a light reception prior to the screening at 6 p.m.) A beautifully crafted film, rich in period detail, which sheds light on one of many incidents during the long saga of unionizing the West Virginia mines during the early 1900s. Chris Cooper plays a labor union organizer who comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.