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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.
Feb 6, 1970 · Medium Cool: Directed by Haskell Wexler. With Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill. A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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.
In "Medium Cool," Wexler forges back and forth through several levels. There is a fictional story about the TV cameraman, his romance, his job, his girl and her son. There is also documentary footage about the riots during the Democratic convention.
A TV news cameraman finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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...
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A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. John Cassellis is the toughest TV-news reporter around. His area of interest is reporting about violence in the ghetto and racial tensions.
To understand it is to understand Wexler's structure and purpose. To understand the way "Medium Cool" is put together is to understand something about the way real events get transferred onto film. That's "Medium Cool's" message on the level of story.
Medium Cool, American film drama, released in 1969, that captured the fractious spirit of its day and highlighted the many social and ethical issues of the late 1960s. Medium Cool follows television news cameraman John Cassellis (played by Robert Forster) as he shoots hard-to-get footage of.
After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects. John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around.
