Happy Birthday to Herbert Biberman, born on this day in 1900, a Hollywood director who was blacklisted by the industry as part of the Reds under the Bed witch-hunt of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (I’m looking at you Elia Kazan), who the told the studio system to go fuck themselves and made the independent masterpiece Salt of the Earth, which is not a feature length documentary on the origins of MJF’s finisher, but is my 460th watch on the list of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas) is the wife of striking zinc miner Ramon (Juan Chacón), who takes her own stand for equality, fighting for workers rights and fighting for recognition of women’s rights within the union and the household
Back in my CPSU days, I once took an afternoon off to strike and felt like a real hero (admittedly it was fun to laugh at all the scabs left serving an ever increasing line of customers), but these guys strike for months. What absolute legends and what an absolutely fucking phenomenal movie and the back story behind it is just as ballsy.
Made in 1954 but super progressive in tought and action, how do we go from stuff like this to a society today where the masses dick-ride for billionaires?
We need a lot more peeps like Esperanza!
Happy Birthday to Herbert Biberman, born on this day in 1900, a Hollywood director who was blacklisted by the industry as part of the Reds under the Bed witch-hunt of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (I’m looking at you Elia Kazan), who the told the studio system to go fuck themselves and made the independent masterpiece Salt of the Earth, which is not a feature length documentary on the origins of MJF’s finisher, but is my 460th watch on the list of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die.
Esperanza (Rosaura Revueltas) is the wife of striking zinc miner Ramon (Juan Chacón), who takes her own stand for equality, fighting for workers rights and fighting for recognition of women’s rights within the union and the household
Back in my CPSU days, I once took an afternoon off to strike and felt like a real hero (admittedly it was fun to laugh at all the scabs left serving an ever increasing line of customers), but these guys strike for months. What absolute legends and what an absolutely fucking phenomenal movie and the back story behind it is just as ballsy.
Made in 1954 but super progressive in tought and action, how do we go from stuff like this to a society today where the masses dick-ride for billionaires?
We need a lot more peeps like Esperanza!
