Medium cool

Friedman, Tully, (film producer.). Wexler, Haskell, (film producer,, screenwriter,, film director,, director of photography,, commentator.). Forster, Robert, 1942- (actor.). Bloom, Verna, 1939- (actor.). Bonerz, Peter, (actor.). Hill, Marianna, 1941- (actor,, commentator.). Blankenship, Harold, (actor.). Bloomfield, Michael, (composer (expression)). Golding, Paul, (commentator.). Cronin, Paul, (commentator,, film director.). Paramount Pictures Corporation. (Added Author). H&J Pictures, Inc. (Added Author). Criterion Collection (Firm) (Added Author). Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship. (Cast).

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.

Item details

ISBN: 9781604657272
ISBN: 1604657278
Physical Description: videodisc
2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.)
Edition: Director-approved two-DVD special ed.
Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]

Contents / Notes

General Note:	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.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Art director, Leon Erickson ; editor, Verna Fields ; music scored by Mike Bloomfield ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler.
Participant or Performer Note:	Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship.
Target Audience Note:	Rating: R.
System Details Note:	DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 4K Digital restoration; PCM mono.
Language Note:	English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
Awards Note:	National Film Registry selection, 2003.