Medium cool [videorecording] / Paramount Pictures Corporation and H & J Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Tully Friedman and Haskell Wexler ; written and directed by Haskell Wexler.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Director-approved Blu-ray special ed.
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2013
Description:
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([16] p. : col. ill. ; 17 cm.)
Title from container. Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship. Originally released as a motion picture in 1969. Booklet (16 p. ; ill.) with an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard inserted in container. Special features: commentaries: Haskell Wexler, Paul Golding, and Marianna Hill; Paul Cronin; new interview with Haskell Wexler; extended excerpts from "Look out Haskell, it's real!" a documentary about the making of Medium cool; excerpts from Sooner or later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship; Medium Cool revisited (new half-hour video by Wexler about the Occupy movement's protests against the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago); trailer.
Summary:
The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. 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.
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