Medium Cool (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray) R
Beyond the age of innocence... into the age of awareness
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 50 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 28, 2013
- Originally Released: 1969
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Robert Forster & Verna Bloom | |
Performer: | Marianna Hill, Peter Bonerz, Harold Blankenship, Peter Boyle, Felton Perry & Robert Paige | |
Directed by | Haskell Wexler | |
Edited by | Verna Fields | |
Screenwriting by | Haskell Wexler | |
Composition by | Michael Bloomfield | |
Cinematography by | Haskell Wexler | |
Art Direction by | Leon Ericksen | |
Produced by | Jerry Wexler, Haskell Wexler & Tully Friedman |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/4 --
Moviemakers have at last figured out how bright the average moviegoer is. By that I don't mean they're making more 'intelligent' pictures. I mean they understand how quickly we can catch onto things.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Rating: 4/4 --
The film doesn't exactly end, because it's not so much a narrative as it is a mile-marker and a warning.
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Film Freak Central
Rating: 5/5 --
The mass media message is still relevant in this groundbreaking 1969 film.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
...By turns riotous, trippy, and downright lovely... - Recommended
Premiere
Rating: 4/5 --
Still rings with relevance and importance today as much as it did 50 years ago.
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25YL (25 Years Later)
This brilliantly uneasy film has a sharp enough sense of its own paradoxes to shake off as naive the very questions it raises.
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The Spectator
Rating: B --
An interesting time capsule essay film that takes us back to the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and its police riot.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
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. MEDIUM COOL remains one of the seminal films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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. MEDIUM COOL remains one of the seminal films of the 1960s and 1970s.
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