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A beginner’s path through the long takes and coming-of-age narratives of a major Japanese filmmaker who deserves to be much better known in the west: Shinji Somai.
First Reformed [2017]). The film is also available for streaming.
The work was the first directed by Schrader (born 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan), after writing a number of screenplays, including for Martin Scorsese’s
Taxi Driver (1976) and Brian De Palma’s
Obsession (1976).
Blue Collar boasts impressive performances by Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto and Harvey Keitel, who play autoworkers at a plant that produces Checker cabs (the film was shot at the Checker plant in Kalamazoo, Michigan, among other locations in the state).
Schrader’s film is certainly worth viewing. It is one of the few ever made in a working auto plant, and one of the shamefully few about work in the United States. It depicts the workers’ circumstances accurately and vividly, including the stressful, troubling and humorous elements. It is often visually and aurally arresting: the viewer sees and feels the heat and incessant noise of the plant. The score, “Hardworkin’ Man” by Jack Nitzsche and