Less than an hour after pulling into Park City I ran into Chicago 10 director Brett Morgen outside the Riverhorse Cafe. The partly animated, new-style, heavily-hyped doc about the trial of the Chicago 8 (i.e., Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, et. al. — all prosecuted for allegedly inciting violent demonstrations against the government during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago), will screen tomorrow night at the Eccles twice, at 6 pm and 9 pm. I asked Morgen why it”s called Chicago 10 when there were eight defendants — he said it’s because the defendants’ two attorneys, William Kuntsler and Leonard Weinglass, were spiritual pro-movement guerillas who wound up getting prison sentences along with everyone else and were just as much “in the dock” as the defendants.
Less than an hour after pulling into Park City I ran into Chicago 10 director Brett Morgen outside the Riverhorse Cafe. The partly animated, new-style, heavily-hyped doc about the trial of the Chicago 8 (i.e., Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, et. al. — all prosecuted for allegedly inciting violent demonstrations against the government during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago), will screen tomorrow night at the Eccles twice, at 6 pm and 9 pm. I asked Morgen why it”s called Chicago 10 when there were eight defendants — he said it’s because the defendants’ two attorneys, William Kuntsler and Leonard Weinglass, were spiritual pro-movement guerillas who wound up getting prison sentences along with everyone else and were just as much “in the dock” as the defendants.