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Medium Cool (VHS, 1995)

 
Medium Cool (VHS, 1995)

Leading Role: Robert Forster
Director: Haskell Wexler
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Feb 1995
Format: VHS
UPC: 097360690736
Product ID: EPID3104951
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 C...
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Movie 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.

Credits
Producer:Haskell Wexler, Jerry Wexler, Tully Friedman
Cast:Peter Boyle, Robert Forster

Details
Sound:HiFi Sound

Notes
Some of the music in Paramount Home Video's release (#6907) is different from the music in the original theatrical release., Theatrical release: August 27, 1969.

Shooting locations: Chicago, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Washington, DC; and Kentucky.

Estimated budget: $800,000.

Haskell Wexler sought to achieve the utmost possible realism by putting his actors into the heart of the historic 1968 Chicago convention.

Some of Wexler's footage was subpoenaed by the government.

The title MEDIUM COOL refers to Marshall McLuhan's description of television as a "cool" medium.

Chicago-based blues artists Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield, along with Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, provided music for the score.

Editorial Reviews
"...COOL emerges as an agonized search for truth..."
Entertainment Weekly - Glenn Kenny (05/05/1995)

"...A prophetic skewering of sound-bite journalism and one of the most left-wing movies ever backed by a major studio during its era..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (12/14/2001)

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