Ice (1970)

[rich]

havent seen this (thank you) but if its anything like the 4hr Japanese
Red Army, one wouldnt be faulted for thinking joining a revolutionary
movement to be dullest pain in the ass job in the world next to any
overnight wal-mart drone

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ice (1970)
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064465/
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yvnuOE6U1s (2:07:45)
>
> Set in the future (i.e., today), when the United States is committing
> aggression in Mexico and suppressing freedom at home [...] "Ice"
> follows a group of urban guerrillas as they plot sabotage, proselytize
> before the unconvinced middle, make love with or make allowances for
> one another, and live through one night of violent terror.
>
> http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B04E1D9173AE333A25755C1A9669D946190D6CF
>
> A pioneering work that blurred the boundaries between fictional and
> documentary styles, Ice was hailed by filmmaker and Village Voice
> critic Jonas Mekas as “the most original and most significant American
> narrative film” of the late sixties. An underground revolutionary
> group struggles against internal strife which threatens its security
> and stages urban guerrilla attacks against a fictionalized fascist
> regime in the United States. Interspersed throughout the narrative are
> rhetorical sequences that explain the philosophy of radical action and
> serve to restrain the melodrama inherent in the “thriller” genre.
>
> http://www.ubu.com/film/kramer.html
>
> http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2000janfeb/kramer.html