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Medium Cool (1969) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 11, 2001
Budget $800,000
Running Time
1 hour, 50 minutes
Country USA
Studio H&J Pictures, Paramount
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Genre: Drama, Suspense, Society, Political, Police, Culture Clash
Tagline: Beyond the age of innocence... into the age of awareness
Plot: One of the landmarks of independent film, as well as one of the primary celluloid artifacts of the 1960s, MEDIUM COOL (based on Thomas Couffer's THE CONCRETE WILDERNESS) stars Robert Forster as John Cassellis, a television cameraman in Chicago. John is so proud of his detached professionalism that he and soundman Gus (Peter Bonerz) even go so far as to stop and film a car crash before calling an ambulance. However, after John films a protest by black activists about racism in the media, the film is seized by the FBI, and his resistance to handing over the footage gets him fired from his job at the television station. While idle, John becomes better acquainted with 13-year-old Harold (Harold Blankenship) and Harold's mother, Eileen Horton (Verna Bloom), a West Virginia native whose husband is in Vietnam. As the 1968 convention approaches, John picks up a freelance assignment and is thrust headlong into the anarchy of the Chicago streets and the convention floor. His prized detachment falls away as he watches Mayor Daley's cops clubbing unarmed protestors.Shooting with handheld cameras, Wexler's unerring eye moves seamlessly between the actors and the unplanned events exploding in front of them. His pitiless dissection of the media's role in the shaping of reality spares no one.
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Haskell Wexler
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Haskell Wexler
The Loved One, Visions of Light, From Wharf Rats to the Lords of the Docks |
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