Left Eye Cinema: Blue Collar

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Artists’ Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.

Friday, October 26, 2018, 7:30 pm, $7-$10

oin the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America for a screening of Blue Collar, the 1978 directorial debut from Paul Schrader, with a discussion after.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfbX5dPODZs

Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto star as a trio of “hard workin’, fucked over” auto factory workers. Finding themselves in dire financial straits, they wager it all on a plot to break out of their Sisyphean lives—by robbing their own union. Schrader takes this cynical premise for a heist movie and spins it into an examination of alienation, union busting, corruption, and the relation between racism and capitalism.

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