| Ice
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. Shot in the gray landscape of New
York City in a gritty cinema-verité
style, the film has been compared to Jean-Luc
Godard’s Alphaville.
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