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Medium Cool. Medium Cool merges a bracing cinéma vérité with deft drama to authentically chronicle a nation at odds with itself and a media struggling to get the story straight. John Cassellis ...
13 de may. de 2008 · Medium Cool trailer
John Cassellis is the toughest TV-news reporter around. His area of interest is reporting about violence in the ghetto and racial tensions. But he discovers that his network helps the FBI by letting it look at his tapes to find suspects. When he protests, he is fired and goes to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
Roger Ebert November 30, 1969. Tweet. A fourth viewing of "Medium Cool" convinces me more than ever that this is a great American document, one of the most important films of this political and social period. It's also evident, this time around, that "Medium Cool" succeeds in different ways than most movies; that, indeed, it is weakest on its ...
MEDIUM COOL. Directed by. Haskell Wexler. United States, 1969. Drama, Romance. 111. Synopsis. 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.
Political cinema was prominent around the world during the 1960's and in 1969 comes cinematographer-turned-writer/director Haskell Wexler with his own revolutionary Medium Cool, which plays out along the lines of a news story.When satires like Dr. Strangelove and The Manchurian Candidate or thrillers like Fail-Safe have come out, Haskell Wexler sheds light on the nation's growth without any ...
Medium Cool (1969) -- (Movie Clip) Better Call An Ambulance Little explanation, only Robert Forster on camera and Peter Bonerz sound, on a Chicago highway, recording an accident, before they call for help, which arguably is the main issue posed by the first and only feature film by renowned cinematographer Haskell Wexler, opening Medium Cool, 1969.
