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Medium Cool (1969)
July 2017: Summer of Love and Death

The whole world is watching!

Directed by Haskell Wexler
Robert Forster, Verna Bloom

Intercutting fiction with documentary footage, director Haskell Wexler creates a compelling story of the public and the personal colliding. John Cassellis is a television news reporter grappling with the ethical issues surrounding the coverage of protests. In the course of covering the 1968 Democratic Convention, he meets Eileen, a young mother who has recently moved to Chicago with her twelve-year-old son. As his relationship with Eileen deepens, tensions surrounding the convention rise, and the brutality he has been covering becomes more and more immediate and threatening. Roger Ebert called this groundbreaking film “an almost perfect example of the new movie.”

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