Medium cool
DVD - 2013
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.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[Irvington, New York] :
The Criterion Collection
[2013]
- Language
- English
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; DVD editon ; widescreen
- Item Description
- 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. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 4K Digital restoration; PCM mono.
- Audience
- Rating: R.
- Awards
- National Film Registry selection, 2003.
- Production Credits
- Editor, Verna Fields ; music, Mike Bloomfield ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler.
- ISBN
- 9781604657272
- disc 1. The film
- disc 2. The supplements.
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