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Green—from the middle generation, born between the boomers he knows are still racked by the debates of the 1960s and the youth he now hopes to bring into them—says his interest in the Weather Underground long predates his career as a filmmaker...
...decade of Green’s youth, kicked off by the surrender of the Weather Underground’s remaining leaders to authorities in 1980, is represented in the film by starkly ironic images: clips from an aerobics video and footage of Ronald Reagan are juxtaposed with the rise of AIDS and crack cocaine...
Green says The Weather Underground began in earnest in 1998 out of “curiosity” springing from a series of conversations with a former activist living near him in San Francisco...
...striking clip from The Weather Underground, activists bar journalists—“vultures,” in their words—from a leftist convention. The main characters of Green’s film spent ten years hiding from the world. And in a time when even the Weather Underground’s deathless bombings strike any number of deeply-felt chords, Green says he found that many of his subjects retained the same distrust of publicity...
Robb Moss, the Arnheim lecturer on filmmaking and the teacher of VES 51a, where Green spoke, says he finds this sequence’s retrieval of an iconic still image to be an apt metaphor for Green’s technique in The Weather Underground...