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    Medium Cool (1969)

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    Cinema verité documentary about the violent events surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago mixed with a fictional story about hard-bitten television news cameraman John Cassellis (Robert Forster).

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    Oscar-winning cameraman Haskell Wexler (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) turned director with this study of America’s political temperature in the turbulent late-1960s.

    Much of the movie’s thrust derives from media pundit Marshall McLuhan’s dictum that “the medium is the message” – in other words, that TV itself is more important than anything shown on it.

    This is a provocative and hugely influential movie that ends on a note of deep pessimism with the famous chant, “The whole world is watching”.

    The almost documentary-like feel of a naked-as-jaybirds romp between Forster and Marianna Hill, with the two of them ending up literally between the sheets, earned the movie an X classification on release.

    John Cassellis
    Robert Forster
    Eileen Horton
    Verna Bloom
    Gus
    Peter Bonerz
    Ruth
    Marianna Hill
    Harold Horton
    Harold Blankenship
    Frank Baker
    Sid McCoy
    Dede
    Christine Bergstrom
    Buddy
    Charles Geary
    Karlin, news director
    William Sickinger

    Director
    Haskell Wexler

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