Medium cool
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[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2013].
Format
DVD
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm). 
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Published
[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2013].
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special ed.
Language
English
UPC
715515106214

Notes

General Note
Originally released as a motion picture in 1969.
General Note
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.
Creation/Production Credits
Art director, Leon Erickson ; editor, Verna Fields ; music scored by Mike Bloomfield ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler.
Participants/Performers
Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship.
Description
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.
System Details
DVD format; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 4K Digital restoration; PCM mono.
Language
English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Awards
National Film Registry selection, 2003.

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