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FilmPublisher number: CC2264BD | The Criterion CollectionSeries: Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 658.Publisher: [United States] : The Criterion Collection, [2013]Edition: Director-approved Blu-ray special edDescription: 1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([18] pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm.)Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Feature films -- United States.

DDC classification:

791.43/72 23

LOC classification:

PN1997 .M43 2013

Production credits:

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

Awards:

National Film Registry selection, 2003.

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

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	BLU-00434 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050314535

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.

Rating: R.

Blu-ray; 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.

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