The Killing Floor Film Forum

The killing floor is a 1984 american award winning made for television drama film directed by bill duke which highlights the plights of workers fighting to build an interracial labor union in the meatpacking industry in the years leading up to the chicago race riot of 1919.

The killing floor film forum. Image from the killing floor courtesy film movement film review. The killing floor is a 2007 american thriller film. The killing floor directed by bill duke. Soon after the move he receives crime scene photographs that seem to have.

It was directed by gideon raff and stars marc blucas shiri appleby and reiko aylesworth. Praised by the village voice as the most clear eyed account of union organizing on film the killing floor tells the little known true story of the struggle to build an interracial labor union in the chicago stockyards. Dead silence law and order follows constable briar a survivor from one of the first police teams sent in. The screenplay by obie award winner leslie lee based on an original story by producer elsa rassbach traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the city s giant.

Directed by gideon raff. A literary agent moves into a penthouse apartment. Available on june 19 at the virtual cinema pages of the brattle theatre the cabot street cinema and other film institutions. The killing floor at film forum courtesy film movement classics the killing floor the first feature directed by bill duke from 1984 is a revelatory historical drama that offers a powerful.

Film forum presents the killing floor in his first feature director bill duke the rage in harlem deep cover traces the racial and class conflicts seething in the chicago s giant slaughterhouses and the brutal efforts of management to divide the workforce along ethnic lines which eventually boiled over in the chicago race riot of 1919. With marc blucas joel leffert shiri appleby jeffrey carlson.