I absolutely love the method used in the cinematography. It possesses such realism and authenticity. It is perfect! Mr. Wexler had some vision to know how this would work back in 1969. What a year for realistic motion pictures with this along with Easy Rider. The editing truly stands out in this film. It is really special. Medium Cool does a fantastic job of capturing the discourse and unrest of the late 1960s. As I mentioned before, the editing is superb in this film. However, the automobile accident at the end of the picture, could have been a frame shorter, in my opinion. The fact that the film begins and ends with a car accident that is being documented by an unmoved observer is a great example of "What goes around comes around" in life. I thought it was a nice touch to end the picture. John had certainly grown as a person, then out of nowhere, both his life and Howard's will inevitably be changed forever. 96/100

The acting is strong but it is nowhere near as smart as it thinks it is.

This film well-captured the time late 60s in US, but I find it's flat as a film. More look like a 온라인카지노추천 drama.

one of Robert Forster's earliest achievements this takes place during the 1968 Democratic Convention months before the next election involving Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. the whole film acts like a documentary capturing the line between reality and fiction of news coverage John Cassellis is the main cameraman capturing the most unexpected of news sources, you start to wonder though is it only his job to film the most shocking moments or should he have an obligation to do something about it after the fact? it also asks daring questions; is the news really capturing what people want to hear, do 온라인카지노추천 and violence go hand in hand, is the camera the real instrument/weapon getting the bloody truth, is the audience in control or is the cameraman himself? it's a real struggle for social and racial injustice according to director Robert Wexler This is was at a point in American history where once again the country is at odds with itself between social issues and political protesting a war much of the film's scenes were filmed on the spot and a lot of the unintentional events that unfolded were captured digging deeply into the center of American politics Maybe Cassellis is on point saying the news media is like a script, once a group of people start rioting and causing civil unrest everything goes back to normal or the only normal people think is The whole world is watching indeed and there's almost no escape This is definitely a sharp, realistic, and scary look into figuring out how the American people attempt to uncover the hidden truth Heck, much of the problems back then can still apply to today given the modern leap forward in politics and social media coverage "Medium Cool" is a big wake up call/warning but essential filmmaking

A realistic movie centered around a 온라인카지노추천 cameraman and his relationship with a single working class mother, made in the social atmosphere of a mass political awakening and loss of trust in the legitimacy of the system. The focus of the movie are events in Chicago in the summer of 1968, when the police and national guard smashed up the protests during the national convention of the Democratic Party. The film was made from the perspective of a 온라인카지노추천 cameraman and we together with him experience the contradictions of his work and social role - he's at the same time a wage worker employed in the media industry, a communicator that shapes and sells media messages, and the victim of the media deception and manipulation. Through the filmed stories that he makes, we travel with him through the contradictions of the society in which he lives: from the training and systematic indoctrination of young men in the National Guard to break up riots and crackdown on protesters, to discussions in the black ghetto where he meets racially and class conscious people who deconstruct racial relations and media stereotypes, flip every sentence and question established phrases. The dialogue and scenes carefully build-up the atmosphere of disillusionment. Raw documentary footage recorded during the culmination of the "hot summer" of 1968 in Chicago creates the impression that the system may never even had legitimacy, for it has always been maintained through manipulation, repression and brute force. Based on actual events.

The best movie ever made!

Eat five eggs toda think bad for my stomach, nicely film with some remade scenes in modern films. about journalism in time when R.Kennedy goes up from democracy - was an horrific family doomed line. For naked scene which was not realistic and naive they run and something, so for stars.

this appears to be a bunch of fake hippies fighting a bunch of fake cops in fake riots

An almost autobiographical time capsule of 60's America by Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool is an excellently shot motion picture with most of its drama achieved through editing.

There's history written on the face of people and land. This phrase is what I kind of took from this movie. Funny how the first to arrive at the scene is the news. Really nice beautiful shots of Chicago from behind the motorcycle. The first "woke" generation to put it out there, loud and proud without any fear. And that's what we're witnessing in this movie. It's a terrific commentary on the societal change that took place during the late 60's while also showcasing how comfortable Americans are with violence, thanks to media and movies. I like how his girlfriend says let's go to a movie, and instead they end up in one of those roller rink derby's where the roller skaters beat each other up throughout the whole game lol. That's an interesting contrast they present with the lower class hillbilly bumpkin characters represented by the kid and his mother. It kind of illustrates how out of the loop and oblivious they are to the political and societal craziness that's going on around them. This is taken even a step further when the mother, now in a bright yellow dress, proceeds to walk aimlessly into the chaos to try and find her son. It's funny how the main character, the cameraman, was covering some dumb political convention when really he should have been covering the protests and riots that were going on in the city. The white news cast guys were just trying to do their jobs, the blacks just want their voices to be heard and the hillbilly bumpkins are just tying to survive. Really great socio-political climate sort of movie. It's a perfect showcase of how the media "the news" can distort and warp the people's way of thinking. How it can divide and turn us against one another, when really we should be coming together and uniting. This movie was one of the first to be "woke" as to the things that were going on both politically and socially. And for that, it deserves a watch. Quite an impactful and powerful movie. I wouldn't buy it on Criterion, but sure, I'd watch it again I guess lol.

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There's an election around the corner and party conventions begin this week, so here's a memorable film that looks at events surrounding one of them from a different era. An artistic, free-wheeling capture of distinctly late 60's cultural and political values and tensions. Quite a trip of a film which vividly touches on racial and political tensions as they play out before and during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The angry protests, speeches and music alongside racial and police brutality themes sort of ring familiar this year too. The more things change, the more they sound the same.

This was the most boring movie I've ever seen in my life I almost wanted to go buy a gun and shoot my brains out.

To pin down an opinion regarding 1969's "Medium Cool" is a difficult act of reviewing. On one hand, it's a transfixing '60s experiment that combines fact and fiction with near documentary finesse, working well as both a social commentary and a sort of docudrama. But on the other, it's a film easy to admire but hard to love, raising important questions but keeping our minds provoked instead of outraged. It's a Godardian film with a more sizable budget, more in control, and with more to say. It's technically brilliant but emotionally standoffish. Taking place before and during the 1968 Democratic National Convention Riots, "Medium Cool" finds its anti-hero through John Cassellis (Robert Forster), a tenacious 온라인카지노추천 cameraman on the brink of an identity crisis. For years, he's grown accustomed to the voyeuristic presence of a reporter and how one must stay neutral in a time of chaos in order to take home a story by the end of the day. But with a war going on in Vietnam, not to mention the growing racial and political tensions in the United States, he becomes increasingly concerned that his job is pushing the limits of ethics, more concerned with telling a story than helping the people who make up the story. "Medium Cool" is, more or less, plotless, following around its leading character like an overly-attached canine friend who wants to see something exciting happen without warning. Like a Steve McQueen or Paul Newman type, John is not a provoker but an observer, only pushed to his wits end when humanity is on the edge of collapse. His plight works as a near perfect reflection of American society during the 1960s, normally hardened but slowly unwinding into a passionate mess as it becomes ever evident that politics, as well as society and the culture that comes with it, need a serious makeover. To continue on in crisis mode for another decade would only push the states into anarchy. Clearly, the film made more of an earthquake upon release because that was when it was the most relevant - though its questions about politics and media attention are as pressing as ever, its prominence has all but vanished as of 2015, working more as a decade defining oddity not as influential as all the "Easy Riders" and "Bonnie and Clydes". This is most likely due to the fact that it is revolutionary in the way it is filmed rather than in the way it speaks; so disjointed is its way of storytelling (traveling back and forth between its fictional, central plot and the documentary footage until they completely merge) that it's hard to really grasp it. We're kept at an arm's length when we should be a mere inches away from its heartbeat. Still, it's easy to see just how much Haskell Wexler, a cinematographer turned writer/director for "Medium Cool", influenced films for the next decade or so. His rambling, often ad-libbed conversational style is reminiscent of Altman and Cassavetes, and his personal way of putting fictional characters in a very plausible (in this case, real) situation distinctly reminds of Ashby. Forster, an everyman, matches Wexler's true-to-life directorial style with noticeable ease. But most of the film is merely remarkably risky, never quite making a permanent stamp in our cinematic minds. It's a radical piece of work to be sure - just don't expect any other sort of reaction besides appreciation.

A superior film that defined the 1960s far better than the better known films of the time. Part of the film was inadvertently filmed right in the middle of the 1968 police riots with actors in as much danger as the journalists and protesters attacked. The film focuses on the unconcern over media people filming tragic events, and both irony and tragedy follows them. But this film is beyond definition.

What Haskell Wexler gives us in "Medium Cool" is a vision like no other.

A 온라인카지노추천 journalist becomes disenchanted with his bosses in the mainstream media, while simultaneously romancing an Appalachian mother whose husband was killed in Vietnam. Thanks to a powerful performance by Robert Forster and a lucky accident (when riots broke out at the 1968 Democratic Convention, director Haskell Wexler was able to shoot his actors mingling with real life protestors and National Guardsmen---the crew was even tear-gassed), this became one of the great anti-authoritarian/agitprop movies of the hippie era.

From an American history and cultural viewpoint, there is merit in MEDIUM COOL. It captures some potent moments during a a demonstration that devolves into a riot filled with police brutality. But, my overall feeling about this film is that it is over-rated. There are very long stretches of odd and unneeded scenes involving the cameraman's sex life that feel exploitive. And, Forster's performance is more than a little heavy-handed. Ultimately, this is a movie that features some significant "time capsule" moments but far too many moments of dated filmmaking.

So many parallels between the 1968 and 2000 DNC.

Excellent. Phenomenal. It leads in allegory and the heaviest commentary one could find in political and social terms. Medium Cool eventually proclaims one grand conclusion that is impressive and memorable. The natural display of its final event is curiously suggestive.