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CHICAGO – YIPPIE! It’s back, in the neighborhood of its roots. YippieFest 2023 will be August 4th-6th in the Lakeview/Buena Park venue of PRIDE ARTS, 4139 North Broadway in Chicago. The space is less than a half mile from the former Mary-Arrchie Theatre, whose “Abbie Hoffman Festival” was the template for the three-day performance celebration. YippieFest currently has slots for theater acts, including one-act plays, monologue, sketch, improv, vaudeville and other stage performance arts. Artists get free admission to the rest of the festival, so click YiPPIE FEST 2023 to sign up.
Film Review: F-F-Free the Army! Audio Review of 1972’s ‘F.T.A.’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 5, 2021 - 3:36pm
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“F.T.A.” is available through On-Demand Virtual Cinema, locally through Facets Chicago or KinoLorber.com. Featuring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Directed by Francine Parker. Rated “R”
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full audio review of “F.T.A.”
F.T.A.
Photo credit: KinoLorber.com
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full audio review of “F.T.A.”
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review, going back to a 1972 anti-Vietnam War documentary with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, as they entertain the troops in “F.T.A.,” available through on-demand in Virtual Cinemas right now, for more info click KinoLorber.com.
 Rating: 4.0/5.0 |
The rediscovered 1972 documentary – directed by Francine Parker, a pioneering female filmmaker – is an acronym for “Free the Army” and other variations of the phrase. Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland – right after they did the film KLUTE in 1971 – organized an anti-war “entertain the troops” show for army bases in Hawaii, the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan … the very places being used to conduct the Vietnam War. The idea was to gather performers, including Fonda and Sutherland, to help mobilize the anti-Vietnam War effort.
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full audio review of “F.T.A.”F.T.A.
Photo credit: KinoLorber.com
Click here for Patrick McDonald’s full audio review of “F.T.A.”
