MEDIUM COOL (THE CRITERION COLLECTION) [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1969
• Genre: Drama, Romance, War
• Plot: It's 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. Medium Cool, his debut feature, plunges us into the moment. With its mix of fictional storytelling and documentary technique, this depiction of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral cinematic snapshot of the era, climaxing with an extended sequence shot right in the middle of the riots surrounding the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. An inventive commentary on the pleasures and dangers of wielding a camera, Medium Cool is as prescient a political film as Hollywood has ever produced.;
• Cast: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship, Charles Geary, Sid McCoy, Christine Bergstrom, William Sickingen, Robert McAndrew, Marrian Walters, Beverly Younger, Edward Croke, Doug Kimball, Peter Boyle, Georgia Todda, Sandra Ann Roberts, Janet Langhart, Jeff Donaldson, Bill Sharp, Robert Paige, Richard Abrams, Walter Bradford, Russell Davis, Felton Perry, Val Grey, Livingston Lewis, Barbara Jones, John Jackson, Linda Handelman, Maria Friedman, Kathryn Schubert, Barbara Brydenthal, Elizabeth Moisant, Rose Bormacher, China Lee, Jim Jacobs, Spence Jackson, Dorien Suhr, Kenneth Whitener, Connie Fleischauer, Mary Smith, Nancy Lee Noble, Simone Zorn, Madeleine Marcou, Mickey Pallas, Morris Bleckman, Lester Brownlee, Linn Ehrlich, Wally Wright, Sam Ventura, George Bouillet, Richard J. Daley, Jesse Jackson, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Sirri Murad, Haskell Wexler, Tully Friedman, Verna Fields, Mike Bloomfield, Chris Newman, Leon Erickson
• Director: Haskell Wexler
• Runtime: 1:50
• Company: Paramount Pictures Corporation, H & J Pictures, Inc., Paramount Pictures, Paramount Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie