Medium Cool
Summary:
"I love to shoot film" is the sanguine motto of TV lensman John Cassellis (Robert Forster) in Haskell Wexler's 1969 Medium Cool, a semi-documentary investigation of image-making and politics. With his soundman, Gus (Peter Bonerz), John films such events as gruesome car wrecks with frosty detachment, considering himself a mere recorder of circumstances, his only re... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Robert Forster - (John)
Verna Bloom - (Eileen)
Peter Bonerz - (Gus)
Marianna Hill - (Ruth)
Harold Blankenship - (Harold)
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Review:
Few documents in any medium captured the political unrest of the late '60s with greater clarity than Medium Cool, a remarkably accomplished directorial effort from award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Wexler took to the streets of Chicago with a film crew to record how the city prepared for the 1968 Democratic Convention, and he p... Continue >>
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