Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

Medium cool / Paramount Pictures Corporation and H&J Pictures, Inc. ; produced by Tully Friedman ; written and directed by Haskell Wexler.

Edition:

Director-approved two-DVD special ed.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]

Description:

2 videodiscs (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: R.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 658.

Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 658.

Subjects:

Democratic National Convention (1968 : Chicago, Ill.) -- Drama.

Riots -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Drama.

Television journalists -- Drama.

Television broadcasting of news -- Drama.

Student protesters -- Drama.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Friedman, Tully.

Wexler, Haskell.

Forster, Robert, 1942-2019.

Bloom, Verna, 1939-

Bonerz, Peter.

Hill, Marianna, 1941-

Blankenship, Harold.

Bloomfield, Michael.

Golding, Paul.

Cronin, Paul.

Paramount Pictures Corporation.

H&J Pictures, Inc.

Criterion Collection (Firm)

Other Title:

Look out Haskell, it's real.

Sooner or later.

Notes:

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.

Art director, Leon Erickson ; editor, Verna Fields ; music scored by Mike Bloomfield ; director of photography, Haskell Wexler.

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

DVD; NTSC; region 1; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; 4K Digital restoration; PCM mono.

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

National Film Registry selection, 2003.

ISBN:

9781604657272

1604657278

Publisher Number:

CC2265D

Other Number:

833439555

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

360565

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Medium c