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Medium Cool (1969)
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"Late last Friday, word began to circulate that social historian and famed lefty Studs Terkel had died at the age of 96; Roger Ebert, Chuck Tryon and filmmaker Steven Bognar are among the many who have offered memories and appreciations. I went on YouTube this morning to find footage of the man, and I stumbled on this clip of Terkel talking about his participation in Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool. The nine minutes of footage were collected by Paul Cronin, ostensibly for his
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"Late last Friday, word began to circulate that social historian and famed lefty Studs Terkel had died at the age of 96; Roger Ebert, Chuck Tryon and filmmaker Steven Bognar are among the many who have offered memories and appreciations. I went on YouTube this morning to find footage of the man, and I stumbled on this clip of Terkel talking about his participation in Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool. The nine minutes of footage were collected by Paul Cronin, ostensibly for his
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"More like Maximum Lame. I am not sure if there is another era of filmmaking that has dated as badly as the early phase of the New Hollywood movement. At the time so many of these films appeared to be bold and striking, even experimental, now many of them come off as preachy and obnoxious. Watching Medium Cool made me appreciate the few good films from this phase, The Graduate and Midnight Cowboy even more. The basic "experimental" aspect of Medium Cool is the fact that it straddles the lines between fiction and documentary, as fictitious characters interact with real events. But that's all. It's not that something interesting happens from this interaction, as it did in Borat. In fact, what's real is the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where a riot broke out and the Mayor of Chicago was accused on the convention floor of using "Gestapo tactics" to stop the protestors. Needless to say, this material is interesting, and a very good document ... "
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