Robert Kramer Is the New Left’s Great, Forgotten Filmmaker

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Robert Kramer Is the New Left’s Great, Forgotten Filmmaker

When Robert Kramer’s 1968 film reached Los Angeles, its ad in the posed a provocative question: “Should we kill the President?” And while Lyndon Johnson survived that film’s alienated would-be assassin, Kramer’s next film left little question as to where he stood. , shot in early 1969 and released in late 1970, imagined an armed leftist insurrection in New York City, taking the jolting documentary-like style of Gil…