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Medium Cool is a 1969 American drama film written and directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill and Harold Blankenship. It takes place in Chicago in the summer of 1968.
Feb 6, 1970 · Medium Cool: Directed by Haskell Wexler. With Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill. A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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- Drama
- Haskell Wexler
- 1970-02-06
An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.
- John
In "Medium Cool," Wexler forges back and forth through several levels. There is a fictional story about the TV cameraman, his romance, his job, his girl and her son. There is also documentary footage about the riots during the Democratic convention.
Medium Cool is a 1969 American drama film written and directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill and Harold Blankenship. It takes place in Chicago in the summer of 1968.
- Haskell Wexler
The title Medium Cool evokes philosopher Marshall McLuhan's theories about 'hot' and 'cool' media. In one of Criterion's new interviews, Haskell Wexler claims that he had no understanding of McLuhan whatsoever.
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A detached TV news cameraman and a warmhearted Appalachian woman are engulfed in a wave of fear and violence during Chicago’s 1968 Democratic National Convention, in a style where the lines between a documentary and a fictional film become blurred.
