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Steven Franz is a former A.V. Club Milwaukee contributor. As a member of the UWM Post editorial board, he helped guide that publication into oblivion. He was born and raised in Milwaukee. He hates everything except for the things he likes.

MFF2014: 1971 taps into political paranoia of the past, present

Steven Franz
September 25, 2014
Within minutes of Johanna Hamilton’s documentary 1971, we are told via intertitle that the film’s subjects—a group of eight anti-war activists who broke into an FBI office and “stole every file”—acted as a kind...
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