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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.
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.
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Feb 6, 1970 · A TV news reporter falls in love with a widow and her son amid the violence and chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The film mixes documentary footage and conventional narrative, and is critical of the media's role in distorting reality.
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- Haskell Wexler
- 1970-02-06
Medium Cool is a radical film that blends fiction and documentary to explore the role of media and violence in American society. Roger Ebert praises its form, function and symbolism, and compares it to other experimental movies of the era.
Medium Cool is a film by Haskell Wexler that blends fiction and documentary to capture the social upheaval of 1968 in the U.S. It follows a TV cameraman (Robert Forster) who gets involved in the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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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.
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John Cassellis (Robert Forster) is a hardened TV news cameraman who manages to keep his distance while he captures daring footage of a nation in the throes of violent change.
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