Medium Cool (1969)

Review: Medium Cool (1969)

Director: Haskell Wexler

Cast: Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Harold Blankenship,

Robert Forster
Robert Forster
Verna Bloom
Verna Bloom
Peter Bonerz
Peter Bonerz
Marianna Hill
Marianna Hill
Harold Blankenship
Harold Blankenship

Plot: John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.

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DVD Review: <i>Medium Cool</i> (1969)

DVD Review: Medium Cool (1969)

It’s interesting that Criterion has released Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool (1969) so soon after Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s Chronicle of a Summer (1962). The two films, separated by an ocean, by different cultures and by almost […]

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