Medium Cool

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Medium Cool ★★★½ 1969

Commentary on life in the ‘60s focuses on a TV news cameraman and his growing apathy with the events around him. His involvement with a Appalachian woman and her young son reawakens his conscience, leading to the three getting caught up in the turbulence of the 1968 Chicago Democratic convention. A frightening depiction of detachment in modern society. 111m/C VHS, DVD . Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz, Marianna Hill, Peter Boyle, Harold Blankenship, Charles Geary, Sid McCoy, Christine Bergstrom, William Sickingen; D: Haskell Wexler; W: Haskell Wexler; C: Haskell Wexler; M: Michael Bloomfield. Natl. Film Reg. ‘03.

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