Union Town

a good horse just jumps as high as it has to, mildly put. stylewise old school, conventional, quite a bit too lazy how Kopple is cooking. /// Venezia 83 ///

shookone

Made me want to throw rocks at MANY people.  That said the fight at the Teamster meeting where it’s just suddenly eight very round men shoving each other is inarguably so funny.

joereid

Wish the intra-movement tensions could have been afforded more real estate - felt the most a part of its trilogy when Kopple gets into the part-timers’ ambivalences about the contract on the table. Still extremely sturdy agitprop, and one of the better rundowns of the state…

mdfmdf

Growing up in a staunchly union family in the ny/nj area this hit home in some specific ways tbh

Alex Kittle

TIFF 2026 #29: TIFF Docs (North American Premiere) Barbara Kopple is returning to familiar territory; which is depressing especially because of how little has changed ever since she started documenting labour union disputes since Harlan County USA. Still, I think that…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸

always give tips in cash and support a worker’s strike

Alicia

Daqueles filmes importantes e urgentes, por mais piegas que isso possa parecer.  O documentário de Barbara é uma experiência bem completa para entender as dificuldades e reivindicações dos entregadores nos EUA. Passando por microcosmos de Nova York, o longa constrói uma…

GabrielEgea

Too rudimentary and lacks the interest in having a necessary discourse on union power and debate, instead almost becoming a commercial for the Teamsters. Teases moments of problematics but quickly veers away, which is unfortunate.  Anyways, stop ordering from Amazon.

Zachary Goldkind (aka, Chaim Kindergelt)

"“I am not a person for the company. I am just a number. They don’t care about us.” So says one of the deliveristas featured in Barbara Kopple’s essential and timely new documentary “Union Town.” The title comes from the notion that New York City is a union town, that the…

Marya E. Gates