ICE   Director: Robert Kramer Year: 1969 Runtime: 134 min. Country: USA Language: English Color: B&W Format: 16mm

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 while staging urban guerrilla attacks against a fascist U.S. government of the near future. 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. "A revealing account of the anomalies in the urban-guerrilla movement." — Pauline Kael, The New Yorker "A film that has gained hugely with the passage of time, [ICE] stands alone as a sympathetic, frequently brilliant ideological thriller. A unique testament to the political consciousness of a decade." — Time Out "One of American independent Robert Kramer's strongest "underground" features, arguably his best. A searing, unnerving history lesson...a desperate message found in a bottle." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader     showtime Monday, March 13 at 7 pm location THE GREEN ROOM 144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel) admission $6 general / $4 GBFS members

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