"Chicago 10"

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An Associated Press story on CNN.com this morning says "it's rare for the Sundance Film Festival to start with a documentary..and [yet] organizers say this year's opening night film, Chicago 10, represents just the sort of bold gambit the United States' top independent-cinema venue likes to see in its movies." Well, okay...but Brett Morgen's film, to go by the various descriptions, isn't the kind of thing Sundance programmers usually pick for the opening-night attraction. Not to my recollection, at least.

Sundance programmers have always chosen to begin the festival with a film with a thoughtful but moderate pulse -- every major film festival (Cannes, Toronto) tends to do this. Totally par for the course. This makes me concerned, of course, that Morgen's film may be thoughtfully moderate...let's hope not.

Chicago 10 "is a film that I think at one level is really basically about risk-taking, about people who want to change the world, so in that sense, it's inspiring," Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore told AP. "It speaks to what goes into the struggle for social change, which is not unlike what goes into the personal vision of independent film."

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on January 18, 2007 at 8:06 AM

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Walter Sobchak says ...

"Chicago 8", "Chicago 10"...whatever. You got Nixon elected, you bunch of dipshit, narcissistic, self-righteous hippies. Too bad Kuntsler's taking a dirt nap. Who's gonna defend Bin Laden when/if he's ever captured?

Posted by Walter Sobchak at January 18, 2007 9:00 AM

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NYCBusybody says ...

Did you see the picture of this guy on an earlier post? And they say stereotypes aren't true.

There MUST be some one-stop shop I'm not aware of for idiot fucking hippie/socialist hipsters, with their carefully tousled hair and black wire glasses. Kunstler (and Lynne Stewart these days) are dangerous to the very idea of political freedom.

I can't wait for the social justice when a film supporting terrorist-defenders is ignored. Then this guy can crawl back to his hovel in Brooklyn and start supporting revolutionary terrorism somewhere else.

Posted by NYCBusybody at January 18, 2007 9:36 AM

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T. S. Idiot says ...

Has anyone done a study on the relationship between political extremism and the lack of sexual gratification?

Posted by T. S. Idiot at January 18, 2007 11:53 AM

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Edward says ...

Maybe this film will help wake people up. It seems we're moving towards a police state -- if the administration has its way -- and I hope we don't have to live the situation that the Clash so eloquently sang:

"When they kick at your front door

How you gonna come?

With your hands on your head

Or on the trigger of your gun..."

Posted by Edward at January 18, 2007 12:09 PM

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Edward says ...

Food for thought Big Brother is closer than you think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fMup0a7xE&eurl=

Posted by Edward at January 18, 2007 12:38 PM

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Hallick says ...

"'Chicago 8', 'Chicago 10'...whatever. You got Nixon elected, you bunch of dipshit, narcissistic, self-righteous hippies."

Walter Sobchak - For those times when you can't find the right words, and "thank you" just isn't enough.

Posted by Hallick at January 18, 2007 4:11 PM

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transmogrifier says ...

Ah, America, where political discourse begins and ends with the maxim:

"Insult and demonize first, actual facts and discussion later, if at all"

Walter Sobchak and NYCBusybody are prime examples of the simian keyboard pounding that is supposed to substitute for discussing true differences in political ethics. Would that he actually step outside their Insult Thesaurus for a second and dare to actually offer up opinions in a simple Opinion + Rationale manner, so we could see whether or not, under that cheap, $2 dollar hey-look-at-me-I-hate-someone pose, they actually have some thoughts about life and the way we live it.

Personally, I doubt it, but you never know.

Posted by transmogrifier at January 18, 2007 5:59 PM

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OddDuck says ...

"Did you see the picture of this guy on an earlier post? And they say stereotypes aren't true.

there was a time when i found some of nycbusybody's posts almost sort of interesting in a contrarian devil's advocate sorta way, but seriously, what the fuck? This kind of rhetoric pretty much ends the conversation and just solidifies his reputation here as the village idiot.

Posted by OddDuck at January 19, 2007 6:12 AM

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Argen says ...

From yesterday's congressional hearing:

Specter: Now wait a minute, wait a minute. The Constitution says you can't take [habeas corpus] away except in the case of invasion or rebellion. Doesn't that mean you have the right of habeas corpus?

Gonzales: I meant by that comment that the Constitution doesn't say that every individual in the United States or every citizen has or is assured the right of habeas corpus. It doesn't say that. It simply says that the right of habeas corpus shall not be suspended.

What's everybody worried about? We're in good hands. Just smile and nod and look at the pretty colors.

Posted by Argen at January 19, 2007 10:14 AM

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christian says ...

yeah, nyc is right. after all the bush family remans good friends of the bin ladens, so we don't want any guilt by association going on here. and hussein wasfriends with reagan...

shit. there i go again.

sorry nyc and walter, we're fighting to get our democracy back that you let simians like bush, cheney and the rest of the soon-to-be-indicted crew steal away so they could protect you from the terrorists they ignored pre 9/11.

Posted by christian at January 19, 2007 1:14 PM

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christian says ...

yeah, nyc is right. after all the bush family remains good friends of the bin ladens, so we don't want any guilt by association going on here. and hussein was friends with reagan...

shit. there i go again.

Posted by christian at January 19, 2007 1:14 PM