From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
True to their joyfully anarchist philosophy of radical politics as ‘theatre’, this is the Youth International Party’s jaundiced view of the 1968 Democratic convention and its concomitant violent demonstrations. De Mille footage, Abbie Hoffman, Democratic-party machine politicians, and Allen Ginsberg are cross-cut in a complex, sophisticated example of political filmmaking at its best.Read More »