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Paramount Home Entertainment
Directed by: Haskell Wexler
It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. Medium Cool, his debut feature, plunges us into the moment. With its mix of fictional storytelling and documentary technique, this depiction of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman (Robert Forster) is a visceral 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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Format:
Blu-ray
Disc:
BD-50 (1 Disc)
Total: 1 Disc
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85:1
Audio Options:
English PCM Mono 1.0
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Interview, Documentary Excerpt, Documentary, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
- Audio commentary featuring Haskell Wexler, editorial consultant Paul Golding, and actor Marianna Hill
- Audio commentary featuring historian Paul Cronin
- New interview with Haskell Wexler
- Extended excerpts from “Look Out Haskell, It’s Real!,” a documentary by Cronin about the making of Medium Cool, featuring interviews with Haskell Wexler; Paul Golding; actors Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, and Robert Forster; Chicago historian Studs Terkel; and others
- Excerpts from Sooner or Later, Cronin’s documentary about Harold Blankenship, who plays Harold in the film
- "Medium Cool" Revisited, a new half-hour video by Wexler about the Occupy movement’s protests against the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago
- Trailer
- A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic and programmer Thomas Beard
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