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ica_pressrel_film_punishment_park
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CULT! FILM DISTRIBUTION IS PROUD TO PRESENT :
PUNISHMENT PARK
35th
Anniversary Cinema Re-release
Released Friday July 8th
at the ICA
[ Visit www.
punishmentpark.
co.
uk ]
Suppressed for 35 years, the only truly must-see film of 2005 is...
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CULT! FILM DISTRIBUTION IS PROUD TO PRESENT :
PUNISHMENT PARK
35th
Anniversary Cinema Re-release
Released Friday July 8th
at the ICA
[ Visit www.
punishmentpark.
co.
uk ]
Suppressed for 35 years, the only truly must-see film of 2005 is as
frightening and relevant now as when originally released in 1970.
“The rigorous way in which Watkins has worked this out is
extraordinarily believable, and it is impossible to emerge from his 90
minutes of psychodrama unbruised.
” [Village Voice]
Synopsis Of Film
In possibly the most contentious of all Peter Watkins’ films, political
tensions explode into rage in a futuristic sci-fi desert landscape.
The war in Vietnam is escalating.
President Nixon declares a state of
national emergency, and activates the 1950 Internal Security Act (the
McCarran Act), which authorizes Federal authorities, without reference
to Congress, to detain persons judged to be “a risk to internal
security”.
In a desert zone in southwestern California, not far from the tents
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