Official Trailer | Decade of Fire | Independent Lens | PBS
 

From NBCnews.com:

As the fires raging across California draw national attention, a new documentary explores a time when fires raged across a major metropolitan area — and no one seemed to care.

On Monday, Nov. 4, PBS Independent Lens will premiere “Decade of Fire,” a look at why the Bronx burned in the 1970s, and how some community members chose to stay and rebuild their neighborhoods.

For co-director Vivian Vázquez Irizarry, the film was a chance to understand the forces that shaped her childhood and adolescence.

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Thank you so much for posting this!

I was able to catch it Wednesday evening on our PBS channel out of Tacoma WA. I don't mean to get on a soapbox here, but no doubt many palms were greased to look the other way...everyone from fire/arson inspectors to the local politicians.

Sad to say this is still happening today but not as blatantly and under the guise of gentrification (the process of repairing and rebuilding homes and businesses in a deteriorating area (such as an urban neighborhood) accompanied by an influx of middle-class or affluent people and that often results in the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents).

Glad you were able to catch it, Homoe. I watched it, too, and found it heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time. And yep, different (new?) forms of redlining are happening in major cities like Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago, NYC—areas marked as not worthy to get mortgages, insurance, basic maintenance. Fuck.

The documentary is available online at the Independent Lens page at PBS.org: https://www.pbs.org/video/decade-of-fire-uoty1d/

Opens tomorrow......:smileyXmasTree:


And yes, if you couldn't tell, I'm SO looking forward to seeing this movie.......

This was an entry in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

I'm praying that this is one of those rare occasions where the movie is so much better than the book!

I really can't wait to see this now especially after jools rave review...:hangloose:

I've searched and searched and searched for this movie! Has anyone ever seen it?

Right now it’s included with Amazon Prime.

https://www.amazon.com/Miss-Sloane-J.../dp/B06XGZG3JT

Please let us know what you think of it if you watch it.

THANK YOU!!!!

No doubt we'll watch it sometime during this long holiday week-end...:popcorn:

Hope Gap........
 

Hope Gap.....:movieguy:

Papi Chulo.....
 

Papi Chulo......:popcorn:

Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn | Official Trailer | HBO
 

Bully. Coward. Victim: The Story of Roy Cohn | Official Trailer | HBO

Coming June 18, 2020, HBO

Thanks for the heads-up Orema...:popcorn:

Summerland..

Pete Souza captures historic and intimate moments as a photographer for President Barack Obama and President Ronald Reagan.
 

Respect..

On Demand Oct 1st........
 

Not usually a fan of Kathie Lee, but this may be surprisingly good...:movieguy:

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life - Trailer
 

Oliver Sacks: His Own Life

I believe this airs Dec 18th

Watched this today! I would of liked a bit more of Ma and less of the band but I enjoyed it just the same...:popcorn:

Promising Young Woman
 

Not sure when it will be available to stream.

Looking forward to see this.

This airs either tonight OR on Christmas on Prime........

I couldn't find this last night so I guess it airs Christmas...:movieguy:

One Night In Miami (a film by Regina King)
 

On Amazon Prime January 15, 2021

This looks good
 

Through The Night
 

from YouTube: THROUGH THE NIGHT is an intimate cinema verité portrait of three working mothers whose lives all intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs just to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn. A tender portrait of titanic strength, love, and selflessness, THROUGH THE NIGHT showcases the multiplicity of “women’s work” -- paid, underpaid, and unpaid; emotional and physical; domestic and career-oriented -- all while negotiating the terms of a dignified existence under the three arrows of racism, sexism, and capitalism in America. Directed and produced by Loira Limbal, a Sundance Institute Fellow and a former Ford Foundation JustFilms/Rockwood Fellow.

Directed/Produced by Loira Limbal
Producer Jameka Autry
Co-Producer Nicole Docta

https://www.throughthenightfilm.com/
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Looking forward to seeing this whenever it starts streaming in the states.

If you don't have a craving, you will after watching this.....
 

I sense a Cloverleaf pepperoni soon....:eating:

Contagion (2011)
 

Uhh... NOPE!

Branded (2012)
 

Today on CBS Sunday Morning they had interviews with Lee Daniels and Andrea Day!