Godard’s La Chinoise reportedly inspired the Columbia occupations of 1968

Evidence

But some cineastes, including D. A. Pennebaker (who undertook to distribute the movie), believed that, opening in New York at the out-of-the-way Kip’s Bay Theater on April 3, 1968, La Chinoise inspired the Columbia students who, three weeks later, began occupying campus buildings. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1556

Categorization

• QUESTION: Is the Pennebaker belief supportable or hagiography? Worth chasing as a test of how seriously underground film claimed causal agency in street politics.