tival sponsored by the Northwest Film Study Center and the Movie House here in Portland we saw and loved these, Harlan County, USA, from: Cinema 5 595 Madison Ave. New York, NY 10002 2t2/427-5555 This film has got to be one of the most powerful I've ever seen. Filmmaker Barbara Hubbard spent three years living with the coal miners of Kentucky, documenting their lives and their yearlong strike. The audience weeps ai the shooting death by thugs of a yo.,.,g striker and warches the agony of fimilies waiting to hear about the fate of those in a mine accident. And we cheer (',vith our hearts in our throats) when the women strong and powerful in their rightness stand up to the county sheriff and heckle the thugs (who have machine-gunned them the night before). Hubbard is right rhere at one poinr getting beat up-and her loving portrayal-of thr;se people is the strongest point of the film. You watch them igonize over the problems of getting people at the 5 a.m. picket lines and you watch them grow confident and organized (especially the women) as they begin to get national attention. They win that strike only to have the new contract signed a year or so later by the UMW leaders prohibit their right to strike. So the struggle continues. Hubbard went $60,000 into debt ro make the film (even though she had lots of grant money). No one expected it to be viewed, but last week it won an Oscar. Pbantom India, fromz New Yorker Films 43 West 6lst New York, NY 10023 212/247-61rc lhis film is in 7 or 8 parts for a total of 7 hours don't see it all at once. .lhe order of the parts doesn't matter as we follow a crew of French filmmakers into their exploration of India-into the various climates and religions, up into the mountain tribes and "*o.,g the politicians. It's beautiful-even when appalling. you drift with them, through a barrage of images and sound, woven together by Director Louis Malle's comments. May I97Z RAIN page 11 swollen snow-melt streams, down the sides of glaciers. The story is told through rhe eyes of the ciriel-an incongruous fellow with a wrist watch and modern undershorts whose own fami)y goes rhc Iong way around by car. A fine glimpse of rhc challenges that shape , strengrhen, limit and ivear down a society. -LdeM Wbere Did tbe Colorado Go? 3-day rental $60 from, Time-Life Multimedia ^\ 100 Eisenhower Drive S Paramus, NJ 07652 * A well-filmed analysis of the mismanagc_ i me nt of the watcr in thc Colorado Riv-er. o Water flow of the rive r was overestimated !- becau.se thc years it was me asured hap- { pened ro be thc highest rainfall years of the ccntury. Eviporarion of warer from reservoirs and absorption into permeable rock strata are shown to cause a net loss of water and power from the Glen Canyon Dam -we'd benefit from dentolisbing the dam! Salinization of irrigation water, water feuds with Mexico resulting in nuclearpowered desalinization plants and general overcommitment of the river's water are shown to be among the results. An excellenr film and i good lesson for other river basins bJnt on overexploiting their resources. -TB People of tbe Wind, fuom, Carolyn Films 8856 Appian Way Los Angeles, CA 90046 213 /654-4932 Every year the Bakhtiari tribe in Iran makes a migration from its low winter pastures to its summer ones high in the. mountains. Goats, .o*., rli..p, and whole families make the trek^twice a year. Chickens are strapped to the donkeys. Children ."rry'.ilu", or babv brothers up over huge boulderr, r.rus STILL YOU ,6REEDY.WANT \ TO WAsTE OUR TITV\E.MONEY, AND ENERGY BUILDING THESE OANGEROUS PLANTs, THESE OANGEROUS PLAN' THAT WILL RUN OUT OF FU€L AND BE OB5OLETE AY THE YEAR AOOO... ABOUT rHiS f.' BUT CANiT YOU SEE?/ IF TAE PEOPLE GET INVOLVEO Wrrr.r DEC-IDING ABOUT NUCLEAR POWER iT WILL CAUSE DELAYS THA]T IT WILL THA] WILL CO .I. ME MILLIONS OF DOLLr\q5 ! .- AND tHE COUNTRIES WHO GO NUCLEAR. INCREASE THE. CHANCES FOR / ATOMIC. WAF.i I INOIA T.{A5 .ALREADY EXpLoDED. AN Ai-orv EIOMB BUILT FRO^A HER.'PEACEFLIL'' NUCLEAR PO\A/FR.. , NUCLEAR POWER, PROGRAM. BUT IT'5 THE PEOPLE . Y{to PAY THE B|LL5. IJSE,THE ELECTRICITY" AND SUFFER THE RI5K5' THEYTVE GOT rHE {ESPON9IBILITY RESPON9IBILIT TO GET INVOLVED IN .THE DEctsloN.
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