October 24 joan crawfords final film, the lowbudget horror picture trog, opens in theaters. The unholy four 1970 spaghetti western full movie youtube. Understanding your aircooled volkswagen engine medium. Dec 17, 2016 hills enthusiasm for medium cool remains undiminished as she recalls her experience working with director haskell wexler, medium cool was produced by paramount, and i remember going out there to meet with haskell wexler, who was a completely marvelous man. It was notable for wexlers use of cinema veritestyle documentary filmmaking techniques, as well as for combining fictional and nonfictional content. In medium cool, wexler forges back and forth through several levels. Cronins second docu sooner or later is a followup about harold blankenship, the film s child actor. Complete national film registry listing film registry. Cameraman john cassellis and his sound man gus work for whjptv news chicago, channel 8 on the dial. Now its going into a big firstrun house, and you dont hear the loop exhibitors talking so scornfully about art films anymore. Test your sport trivia knowledge with these 100 carefully selected sports trivia questions and answers, this is actually one of the largest collection of sports trivia quizzes you can find. I use morris golden film sae 30 oil in my t2 and tend to do an oil change. Watch full episodes of mash and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at.
Most protest scenes from medium cool, the 1969 film classic by haskell wexler which mixes documentary and feature film footage in the cinema verite style. Medium cool is still the most oneofakind movie ever made. Medium cool by haskell wexler haskell wexler, robert forster. We had a long interview with wexler six weeks ago in the suntimes. I love to shoot film is the sanguine motto of tv lensman john cassellis robert forster in haskell wexlers 1969 medium cool, a semidocumentary investigation of imagemaking and politics. Schaffners film does not gloss over these incongruities, and portrays patton warts and all.
Medium cool was actor robert forsters first film in a lead role. Funding medium cool partly out of his own resources, wexler had free reign during production, but when the execs at paramount saw the result, they were not pleased. The national magazines are full of photos of his characters. Staring harold blankenship, peter bonerz, robert forster and mariana hill. So whats going on when an experimental, radical film like medium cool can get this sort of exposure.
Despite the timely subject matter, paramount delayed and then curtailed the film s release, tempering its impact on critics and audiences. Apr 06, 2017 le film medium cool 1969 vostfr admin 20170406t00. With its mix of fictional storytelling and documentary technique, this depiction of the working world and romantic life of a television cameraman robert forster. If he were to return in a hollywood guise, patton would just have to come back as george c.
Complete national film registry listing sort films by title, year of release, and year inducted into the registry by using the up and down arrows at the top of each column. In fact there are scenes, such as the riot sequences, where there is a genuine sense of danger. Haskell wexlers acclaimed film may have made its first minor mistake by combining a fictional story or two with the actual presence of the upcoming democratic national convention in chicago 1969. Medium cool is one of those films that shows cinematic footage of a nonfictional event in the movie the 1968 democratic national convention protest activity. Though it stumbles in its second acts focus on personal relationships rather than those of macroscale entities like government and the news media, medium cool sandwiches its lesser, more traditional narrative with several statements that earn the film more than enough merit as a whole. The film has a lot of pointless scenes, and the outer story is rather mundane, but the. Getting straight is a 1970 american comedydrama motion picture directed by richard rush, released by columbia pictures the story centered upon student politics at a university in the early 1970s, seen through the eyes of nonconformist graduate student harry bailey elliott gould. Moreover, medium cool doesnt include a bibliography, something which seems impossible given all the material it covers. Medium cool is my favorite example of genreblurring in film. The chicago riots during the 1968 democratic convention just happened while the film crew was there, so they worked it into the movie. December 14 john lennon and yoko ono film up your legs forever with 367 participants in new. Medium cool on dvd 097360690743 from paramount pictures. Medium cool, american film drama, released in 1969, that captured the fractious spirit of its day and highlighted the many social and ethical issues of the late 1960s. John has to walk a fine line in his work, especially in this day and age of increasing public disenfranchisement due to antiestablishment feelings, with frequent civil rights protests, antiwar protests or other civil unrest taking place.
Pioneering cinematographer haskell wexler got the bright idea that the 1968 democratic national convention would be a hotbed of riots. Sep, 2015 more than any other american film of that time, medium cool learned from johnluc godard how to blur the line between fact and fiction and how to interrogate the film making process in the course. Merging exhilarating, often brutal documentary footage shot by wexler with casselliss story, medium cool is a film remarkable for its insistence that no one exists outside of politics, whether one experiences it as a backdrop to daily life a wrinkled bobby kennedy poster in a cramped apartment or as a nightstick to the gut. The most compelling extra is medium cool revisited, haskell wexlers new documentary about his return to chicago to compare the demonstrations in his 1969 film with the occupy movements protests against the 2012 nato summit meetings. Patton was a classical scholar, a poet and mystic who firmly believed in the doctrine of reincarnation. Download pdf copies of the entire list of registry titles sorted alphabetically or by year of release.
Medium cool 1969 original trailer hd 1080p youtube. The film utilises both professional actors and nonprofessionals, to very good effect. British director peter watkins visited the usa in 197071 and this pseudodocumentary was the result. It is most likely medium cool, which features sveral moi tunes.
Medium cool is an awkward and even pretentious movie, but, like the report of the presidents national advisory commission on civil disorders, it has an importance that has nothing to do with. Laidback tv cameraman robert forster finds his consciousness raised by romance with verna bloom and meetings with militants, climaxing memorably in reallife chicago 68. Five years ago, this film would have been considered incomprehensible to the general movie audience. Robert forster and harold blankenship in medium cool 1969 robert forster. The main flaw in the film is that the love story is not wellhandled and often quite dull, the far more interesting events are happening elsewhere. Sports trivia is a great way to exercise your brain, keep your mind sharp and learn a few things about sports you never knew before. Medium cool, to my surprise, does not attain enough of the importance of said document to be praised as must see viewing. The scenes in medium cool in which harold unleashes pigeons may be a comparatively trite metaphor for the wish for escape, yet his performance, and the film altogether, remains one of american cinemas few efforts to illustrate the unquenchable appetite for liberation amidst the entanglements of class and the encroachment of the powers that be. Italy 23 september 1970 sorrento film festival west germany 23 october 1970. With his soundman, gus peter bonerz, john films such events as gruesome car wrecks with frosty. The best thing about this film is its ability to plunge us back into the unhinged summer of 68 in america where memories of kennedy and kings.
Maybe there could be another film just like medium cool now, but theres no reason for one. Medium cool is a 1969 american drama film written and directed by haskell wexler and starring robert forster, verna bloom, peter bonerz, marianna hill and harold blankenship. Medium cool, his debut feature, plunges us into the moment. More than any other american film of that time, medium cool learned from johnluc godard how to blur the line between fact and fiction and how to. Many books about sixties cinema include dozens of pictures that compliment the text well. But for people who love chicago, the film may be most valuable as a cultural document, recording a much younger city in the midst of a turbulent summer. Medium cool follows television news cameraman john cassellis played by robert forster as he shoots hardtoget footage of. A movie that astutely and consistently interrogates the power of wielding a camera, medium cool makes its most searing impression during its. Apr 24, 2014 10 great overlooked films from the 1970s. Medium cool is a 1969 american drama film written and directed by haskell wexler and.
March 17 the controversial film the boys in the band, directed by william friedkin and based on mart crowleys hit offbroadway play, opens in theaters. Summaries are essential, but a book about film an entirely visual medium also needs photos of film. The original trailer in high definition of medium cool directed by haskell wexler and starring robert forster, verna bloom, peter bonerz and. Medium cool 1998 john cassellis robert forster is a hardened tv news cameraman who manages to keep his distance while he captures daring footage of a nation in the throes of violent change. First scenes from medium cool, the 1969 film classic by haskell wexler which mixes documentary and feature film footage in the cinema verite style.
And thats why medium cool is a very visual film, where the images speak for themselves and the. With authorit, and wit, ethan mordden explores american film and filmmakers in a crucial decade, the 1960sthe decade in which the way hollywood made moviews and the way audiences perceived them were transformedshowing readers how film reflected, rather than gilded everyday life. For me, medium cool is the epitome of these kinds of movies. Check out medium cool and youll have trouble finding it. Aug 25, 2012 stars leonard mann, woody strode, peter martell and george eastman.