Julia Reichert — Director (9)
Dave Chappelle: Live in Real Life (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Dave Chappelle: Live in Real Life
other title: Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place
Dave Chappelle provides the community he calls home with two things desperately needed in difficult times – economic and comic relief. What began as an experimental socially-distanced live comedy show in a neighbor's cornfield, grew into an unforgettable summer with his neighbors, friends and fellow comedians.
Union Maids (1977) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Union Maids
director: 吉姆·克莱恩 / 迈尔斯·莫古莱斯库 actor: Kate Hyndman / Stella Nowicki
other title: 工会女仆 / Syntrofisses
Three women labor activists in America tell their stories of organizing in the 1930s.
9to5: The Story of A Movement (2020) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
9to5: The Story of a Movement
director: Steven Bognar / Julia Reichert actor: Adair Dammann / Karen Nussbaum
other title: 9to5: The Story of a Movement
In the 1970s, America’s secretaries took to the streets, fed up with on-the-job abuse. They created a movement called 9to5, which later inspired Jane Fonda to make a movie and Dolly Parton to write a song. This is the untold story of their fight.
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists (1983) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Seeing Red
director: 吉姆·克莱恩 / 朱莉娅·赖克特 actor: Oscar Hunter / Rose Podmaka
other title: 正观“红色” / Seeing Red
Julia Reichert and Jim Klein (who were also responsible for UNION MAIDS - spotting a theme yet?) made this doco in 1983, fortunately in enough time to snag interviews with a number of senior citizens who were right in the thick of it way back when the communist party established itself in the U.S. SEEING RED takes us through the trials and tribulations of the party through the changes of the decades - the depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Cold War and subsequent HUAC hearings, the devastating revelations about exactly what kinda guy Stalin had become, and of course all the hardline propaganda that beleaguered them at every turn.
Even though the film-makers' sympathies lie clearly with their interview subjects, SEEING RED isn't meant to be pro-Pinko (while even now still holding on to their ideals these old folks admit the official party line lost its way, and point out where things went wrong). Pete Seeger (of The Weavers) gets to sing a few songs; Reagan, Nixon, McCarthy and even actor John Saxon make archival appearances. If you weren't aware of the full story behind this marginalised slice of history, then here's your chance to find out.