Medium Cool (1969)

Highly Recommended

USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler

Composer: Mike Bloomfield

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

Renowned cinematographer Wexler’s feature directorial debut, which manages to blur the line between documentary and fiction to an unsettling degree, culminating in some remarkable scenes from the riots outside of the 1968 democratic convention, follows a handsome young news cameraman around the mean streets of Chicago, where he encounters political activists of all colours and creeds. Iain.Stott