Rent Medium Cool (1969)
3.7 of 5 from 82 ratings
1h 50min
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- Synopsis:
A carefully crafted, open-to-everything mixture of live-wire reality and controlled narrative, Medium Cool is the debut fiction feature of Haskell Wexler, who had already established himself as one of Hollywood's premiere cinematographers in the post-studio-system-era on such films as Elia Kazan's America, America and Mike Nichols' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1968, he hurled himself into the tear-gas of the cultural-political moment. The result was, alongside Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, a seminal early work of what came to be known as "the New Hollywood". John plays a television cameraman who has become disenchanted as a creative subservient to the mainstream. Eileen depicts a newly relocated war-widow swept up in the maelstrom of the conflicts of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago - the actual events of which serve as the spontaneous backdrop for Wexler's picture. - Actors:
- 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
- Directors:
- Haskell Wexler
- Producers:
- Tully Friedman, Haskell Wexler, Jerrold Wexler
- Writers:
- Haskell Wexler
- Studio:
- Eureka
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Films About Television: Part 1, JFK on Screen
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 24/08/2015
- Run Time:
- 110 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Audio commentary with writer and director Haskell Wexler, editorial consultant Paul Golding, and actor Marianna Hill
- "Look Out Haskell, It's Real!", extended excerpts from Paul Cronin's documentary
- Excerpts from Sooner or Later, Harold Blankenship is interviewed almost 40 years after appearing in Medium Cool
- Haskell and the Cameras, Wexler demonstrates the cameras used to make Medium Cool
- Original Theatrical Trailer
