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Medium cool / Paramount Pictures Corporation and H & J Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Tully Friedman and Haskell Wexler ; written and directed by Haskell Wexler.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN1997 .M3458 2013 disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 658.
- Criterion collection ; 658
- Standardized Title:
- Medium cool (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.)--Drama.
- Democratic National Convention.
- Riots--Illinois--Chicago--Drama.
- Riots.
- Television journalists--Drama.
- Television journalists.
- Television broadcasting of news--Drama.
- Television broadcasting of news.
- Student protesters--Drama.
- Student protesters.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Genre:
- Drama
- Feature films
- Fiction films
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 Blu-ray disc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm).
- 4 3/4 in. color
- Edition:
- Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Criterion Collection, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English dialogue with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray disc, Region A; widescreen, aspect ratio: 1.85:1; monaural; requires Blu-ray player.
- digital
- optical
- monoaural
- video file
- Blu-ray
- region A
- Summary:
- The story of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman is a visceral, lasting 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.
- Participant:
- Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Haskell Wexler; editor, Verna Fields ; music scored by Mike Bloomfield.
- Notes:
- Title from container.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
- Booklet (16 pages ; illustrations) with an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard inserted in container.
- Special features: commentaries: Haskell Wexler, Paul Golding, and Marianna Hill; Paul Cronin; new interview with Haskell Wexler; extended excerpts from "Look out Haskell, it's real!" a documentary about the making of Medium cool; excerpts from Sooner or later, a documentary by Cronin about Harold Blankenship; Medium Cool revisited (new half-hour video by Wexler about the Occupy movement's protests against the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago).
- National Film Registry selection, 2003. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA, 1970: NSFC Award, 3rd place in Best Actress (Verna Bloom), Best Supporting Actress (Verna Bloom).
- Contains:
- Look out Haskell, it's real.
- Sooner or later.
- ISBN:
- 9781604657289
- 1604657286
- OCLC:
- 846505038
- Publisher Number:
- 715515106313
- CC2264BD Criterion Collection
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