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Medium cool
Uniform Title
Medium cool (Motion picture)
Title
Medium cool / Paramount Pictures Corporation and H&J Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Tully Friedman ; written and directed by Haskell Wexler.
ISBN
9781604657272
1604657278
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (18 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Notes
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
Special features: Disc 1. Commentaries: Haskell Wexler, Paul Golding, and Marianna Hill; Paul Cronin; Trailer. Disc 2. Haskell Wexler (new interview); 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). Booklet features an essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard.
Art director, Leon Erickson ; editor, Verna Fields ; music scored by Mike Bloomfield ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler.
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
National Film Registry selection, 2003.
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.
Variant and related titles
Look out Haskell, it's real.
Sooner or later.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 22, 2017
Series
Criterion collection ; 658
Credits
Art director, Leon Erickson ; editor, Verna Fields ; music scored by Mike Bloomfield ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler.
Cast
Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship.
System details note
DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 4K Digital restoration; PCM mono.
Audience
Rating: R.
Contents
Disc 1. The film
Disc 2. The supplements
Videorecording number
CC2265D The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films - United States.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Feature films - United States.
Also listed under
Paramount Pictures Corporation, film distributor.
H&J Pictures, Inc., production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
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