There are def. movies that capture the rhythms and monotony of everyday work (like many named here), but usually they get into other stuff too, b/c who wants to watch 2 hrs of people working with nothing remarkable happening.
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:00 (three years ago) link
(then there are plenty of movies where the protags are technically “at work” at the fascinating/unusual jobs you mentioned — fighter pilot, male stripper, country music star, secret agent on her majesty’s secret service, crusading archaeologist, etc., etc.)
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:07 (three years ago) link
Sorry to Bother You
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
imo work is an underrated and under-explored topic in film and tv. given that most people spend the majority of their lives at work, it's weird how foregrounded leisure is in media
I've long felt the same way about school in film/TV.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:18 (three years ago) link
Australian sitcom Dreamland was p good satire of work in a civil service office.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
Roma
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:23 (three years ago) link
(not a hide-and-seek deal either iirc) xp
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:24 (three years ago) link
Groundhog DayNetwork
― that's not my post, Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:07 (three years ago) link
Repo Man
― that's not my post, Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
Support the Girls
― herds of unmasked cletuses (WmC), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
xp I already said Repo Man, guy
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:23 (three years ago) link
The Apartment (sort of)
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
Big (fantasy elements aside, a good office-politics movie)
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
clerks
― Kate (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
Gung Ho
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2Q5Y2ZlYzctMDk5ZS00OTY3LWIxMGItNjQzMDUyOTAxZmExL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI3ODYyNDU@._V1_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
Baby Boom
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:48 (three years ago) link
The Devil Wears Prada
― Inadequate grass (morrisp), Sunday, 24 May 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
Adventureland is actually good on the workplace, even if it's not the main thing in the film.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 May 2020 03:00 (three years ago) link
killer of sheepla classe operaia va in paradiso la noire de...
― donna rouge, Sunday, 24 May 2020 03:17 (three years ago) link
the chambermaid (2018)
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 24 May 2020 05:09 (three years ago) link
mb filmmakers just dont have the stones to represent the crushing toil of life as it really is
Another Fassbinder,
https://www.berlinale.de/media/nrwd/filmstills/2008/retrospektive/5457_0001_IMG_FIX_700x700.jpg
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:27 (three years ago) link
Hudsucker Proxy?
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Sunday, 24 May 2020 10:02 (three years ago) link
The Intern Empire Records
― Roz, Sunday, 24 May 2020 10:31 (three years ago) link
Relevant recent monograph:
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-process-genre
“Process genre” films are not precisely coextensive with films about work tho
― silby, Sunday, 24 May 2020 23:54 (three years ago) link