NEW LEFT NOTE
EUTERPE
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26m
As editor of New Left Notes, the newspaper of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Saul Levine was at the center of multiple radical political movements. For NEW LEFT NOTE, he employs a rapid-fire editing style to create a frenetic, kaleidoscopic portrait of the anti-war movement, the Black Panthers and the liberation of women.
"NEW LEFT NOTE is a study of radical politics in radical film form." — Marjorie Keller
16mm blow-up from 8mm in this restoration by the National Film Preservation Foundation, Anthology Film Archives and BB Optics.
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