I.F. Stone's Weekly

(showing at the Penthouse)

A documentary of the "maniacle zest and idiot zeal" of one of the world's greatest journalists. Jerry Bruck Jr did an excellent job of capturing the extremely efficient genius of I.F. Stone. It was also a useful political documentary on the absolutely ridiculous or at most, the complete dishonesty of American politics and journalism. The documentary was even true to I .F. Stone's own pessamistic outlook when it ends with Stone saying there is little hope of any change when young poor people rebel in order to gain more material wealth and yet who are joined by young rich people who are denouncing the wealth. By ending on this note the documentary effectively kills any value the film may have had in attacking the status-quo. Not half the film Mil house was