The Miners' Hymns

Name: The Miners' Hymns
Genre: Drama
Released: February 10, 2012
Duration: 52 min
Rating: 76

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Icarus Films | Release Date: February 10, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: The Miners' Hymns celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry. Focusing on the Durham coalfield located in northeastern England, it depicts the hardship of pit work, the role of Trade Unions in organizing and fighting for workers' rights, the years of increased mechanization and the annual Miners' Gala inThe Miners' Hymns celebrates social, cultural, and political aspects of the extinct industry. Focusing on the Durham coalfield located in northeastern England, it depicts the hardship of pit work, the role of Trade Unions in organizing and fighting for workers' rights, the years of increased mechanization and the annual Miners' Gala in Durham. (Icarus Films)… Expand

Director: Bill Morrison

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 52 min

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Noel Murray

Feb 8, 2012

In keeping with Jóhann Jóhannsson's score - alternately ominous, triumphant, and elegiac - The Miners' Hymns plays on the broader emotions of the subject. The film is all about the mysterious world down below, how camaraderie turned to conflict, and the nagging feeling of loss. Read full review

Nick Pinkerton

Feb 7, 2012

It speaks eloquently about the disappearance of most any indigenous working-class culture. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Feb 10, 2012

Morrison sometimes slows down imagery to a hypnotic, frame-by-frame trance-like state; one can imagine townsfolk scrutinizing the faces of long-dead relatives magically raised. Read full review

Andrew Schenker

Feb 6, 2012

A study of the this former mining region in both its de-industralized present and its past state as an active coalfield, The Miners' Hymns arranges its two parts as a set of binary oppositions. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

Feb 7, 2012

An elegant, elegiac found-footage work from Bill Morrison, best known for his silent-film reverie "Decasia." Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Feb 7, 2012

Miners' is tiresome and scattershot. Read full review

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