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***THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND receives "best documentary" nomination at the 2004 Academy Awards.


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Kathy Boudin, 60's Radical Convicted in Deadly Shootout Is Granted Parole.

PRESS RELEASES
Interview with Bernadine Dohrn, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
THE TORONTO STAR: Review - Oct. 22, 03 - Terror Made in the USA
THE TORONTO SUN: Review - Oct. 22, 03 - So You Want a Revolution
THE TORONTO STAR - Oct. 19, 2003 - Hippie terrorists reincarnated
NOW MAGAZINE - Oct. 2003 - NOW Magazine gives The Weather Underground 5 "N"s!
NOW MAGAZINE - Nov. 2003 - Ex Weather Underground Radical [Bernadine Dohrn] would bomb all over again, she'd just be smarter about it.
EXCLAIM! MAGAZINE - Erin Oki, Oct. 21, 2003 - ...hard-won perspective on the past offers both explanation and regret.
LE VOIR - Vanessa Quintal , Oct. 23, 2003 - La loi du talion
MONTREAL MIRROR - Mathew Hayes, Oct. 2003 - ...a strange and melancholic look back at '60s extremism
LE DEVOIR - Odile Tremblay, Oct. 28, 20034 - Autres temps, autres moeurs
HOUR MAGAZINE - Dimitri Katadotis, Oct. 23, 2003 - Blowing in the Wind, Doc tracks the stormy history of an American radical group
THE EDMONTON JOURNAL - Todd Babiak, Oct. 2003, - Traditional doc charts the shift from '50s idealism to '80s realism.
THE TORONTO STAR - Geoff Pevere - Nov. 28, 2003 - an amazingly even-handed and myth-free examination of the period.
THE GEORGIA STRAIGHT - Ken Eisner - World Weather Still Unstable
THE OBSERVER/ GUARDIAN - Sept. 21, 03 - The Americans who declared war on their country
NY TIMES - June 4, 2003 - A Trip Back to the Contradictions of the Stormy 60's
BOSTON.COM - Aug. 22, 2003 - 'Underground' a history lesson on how idealism can breed terror
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES - Roger Ebert - 2003 - ...chronicles those early days of idealism...
FILM JOURNAL INTERTATIONAL, Maria Garcia - 2003
FILM THREAT - Tim Merrill - Jan. 23, 2003 - a breathtaking portrait of one chapter of the ‘60s story that hasn’t been done to death.
FILMCRITIC.COM - Chris Barsanti - 2003 - It’s a painful documentary in many ways...
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - Carla Meyer - 2003 - Powerful and surprisingly timely...
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCE - 2003 - William Arnold
New York Times Article on Kathy Boudin - Nov. 2, 3003
AWARDS

THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, has been selected as one of the nominees for the 2003 IDA AWARD for DISTINGUISHED FEATURE DOCUMENTARY FILM.

Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 San Francisco Film Festival.
Best Documentary San Francisco Film Festival & Seattle Film Festival
Critics Week Award at the Locarno Film Festival
Audience Award at the Washington DC Film Festival
Festival Choice Award at the NY Underground Film Festival

UPDATES

Kathy Boudin, 60's Radical Convicted in Deadly Shootout Is Granted Parole.

New York Times Article on Kathy Boudin - Nov. 2, 3003