Ice (1970)

[rich]

apologies that would be United Red Army

On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 8:07 PM, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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