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	Medium Cool - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Medium Cool is a 1969 film directed by Haskell Wexler and starring Robert Forster.
		The title comes from Marshall McLuhan's work he described TV as a cool medium, meaning the viewer had to 'fill in the blanks'.
		The story, although centered around a fictional plot, was filmed during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago and includes a substantial amount of footage of the convention and of the accompanying riot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medium_Cool (162 words)

	DVD : Medium Cool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Medium Cool is an almost impossible oddity: director Haskel Wexler wanted to shoot a fictional, narrative film wherein actors mingled with real people in an uncontrolled social environment.
		In preparing his script, Wexler assumed that the riot would be racial, but in fact it turned out that most of the rioters were white, so the final scenes seem to interrupt the narrative and make the film an odd pastiche and a commentary on the lack of connection between politics and life.
		I saw "Medium Cool" shortly after I had been drafted in 1969 - in San Antonio where I was going through basic training for conscientious objectors.
	arabiadirectory.com /B00005QTAT/Medium_Cool.shtml (664 words)

	Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Throughout Medium Cool, Wexler continually challenges the audience to decipher between appearance vs. reality, rather, whether what is being shone is actually real, or a reenactment; furthermore, he exposes how the difference between the two can become irrelevant to the media and therefore the public.
		Medium Cool tackles a great deal of social and political subjects, but at the heart of the story is the slow, methodical realization by John Kassellis of the consequences that he, as a member of the media, must come to terms with.
		The first scene of the film establishes the main theme recurrent throughout: a media that views itself as performing a civic and intellectual duty by disseminating information to the masses, however, the media never helps any of their subjects, no matter how gruesome or disturbing the scenes they are capturing may be.
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	DVD Times - Medium Cool
		Medium Cool has had a considerable influence over the years, not least on the several 80s films about journalists in warzones who make a similar journey from detachment to commitment.
		Medium Cool, at least the “fictional” parts, is very much a 60s film in its look, with some colours that are over-bright by today’s standards, with orangey fleshtones.
		Medium Cool was shown earlier this week on BBC2, in a nice anamorphic print BUT unfortunately it was again the homevideo/DVD version with the music edit.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=4312 (1756 words)

	Cool Hunting: Medium Footwear
		Medium footwear was founded by 4 very accomplished shoe designers.
		Medium believes quality, simplicity and distinctiveness are virtues for this group of people.
		Cool Hunting: finding things in the intersection of design, culture and technology that excite the imagination and inspire creativity.
	www.coolhunting.com /archives/2004/08/medium_footwear.php?rss (128 words)

	Medium Cool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The film's title is a not-so-subtle play on Marshall McLuhan's designation of television as "the cool medium." Despite Medium Cool's idiosyncratic, forceful pushing of the traditional film-making envelope, critical comment was laudatory.
		This improvisational movie integrates didactic discussions about the responsibility taken by anyone who wields a camera, casual conversations about the lack of voice given to minorities in the media, and several sobering looks at the youth who were affected by the frenzy into its fourth-wall shattering panorama.
		Ultimately, though, "Medium Cool" is a movie milestone in spite of some of its flaws.
	www.cultclassicmovies.net /ar/Medium-Cool/B00005QTAT.html (1486 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Medium Cool
		I don't think I exactly want to review Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool." A formal review (or even my chaotic version of one) would be inappropriate to this most informal and direct of films.
		Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool" is one of several new movies that knows these things about the movie audience (others include "The Rain People," "Easy Rider," "Alice's Restaurant," etc.).
		The rest of the romance is implied but never shown; we skip B on our way from A to C. Medium Cool" is finally so important, and absorbing because of the way Wexler weaves all these elements together.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19690921/REVIEWS/909210301/1023 (1332 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Medium Cool
		I suspect that "The Making of 'Medium Cool'" would be a far more fascinating story than the film itself.
		Shot on location in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention in 1968, "Medium Cool" follows the career of John (Robert Forster, then in his pin-up days at age 27) as a television news photographer.
		The problem is compounded by the fact that "Medium Cool" is populated with TERRIBLE actresses, not to mention one excruciating dance band!
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/mediumcool-ms-76495951.html (635 words)

	Remote Control : Medium Cool (1969) : Pif No. 30 - November 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		For the most part, Medium Cool looks like the freewheeling social essays Jean-Luc Godard was doing in the late ‘60s in films such as Two or Three Things I Know About Her and Weekend.
		While Wexler adheres too closely to the Godardian paradigm of free cinema at times (at one point he even pulls back the camera to reveal a huge poster of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless), it is nevertheless a nervy, subversive piece of cinema and a key social document of the ‘60s.
		Set in Chicago during the summer of 1968, Medium Cool stars Robert Forster as television news cameraman John Cassellis, who along with his sound man partner Gus (Peter Bonerz, the dentist on the old Bob Newhart show) are first seen passively filming a dying woman at a traffic incident.
	www.pifmagazine.com /vol30/v_medium_cool.shtml (791 words)

	Symbolism.Org: Battle of Symbols: Islam as Medium Cool
		“Any hot medium allows of less participation than a cool one, as a lecture makes for less participation than a seminar, and a book for less than dialogue … our own time is crowded with examples of the principle that the hot form excludes, and the cool one includes.”
		Marshall McLuhan would term this transparency of Islam and the terrorists perhaps a form of “cool” medium or a symbol inviting participation because it was less filled with data than a “hot” medium.
		One is reminded of a extremely successful commercial deployment of the “medium cool” of negative space and “imaginary territory” in the Absolut Vodka campaign.
	www.symbolism.org /writing/books/bs/islam/home.html (646 words)

	Wired 4.01: The Wisdom of Saint Marshall, the Holy Fool
		A cool medium creates more participation, but more involvement also means more passivity.
		Complaints that today's young people have a short attention span are just acknowledgments of the increase in participation associated with a general cooling down of the media.
		In a cool culture, media are mythic in form, and like myths, television programs are enhanced through repetition.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/4.01/saint.marshal.html?pg=4 (789 words)

	Medium Cool (DVD) And The College Admissions Mystique
		One of the landmarks of independent film, as well as one of the primary celluloid artifacts of the 1960s, MEDIUM COOL (based on Thomas Couffer`s THE CONCRETE WILDERNESS) stars Robert Forster as John Cassellis, a television cameraman in Chicago.
		John is so proud of his detached professionalism that he and soundman Gus (Peter Bonerz) even go so far as to stop and film a car crash before calling an ambulance.
		MEDIUM COOL remains one of the seminal films of the 1960s and 1970s.
	www.relaxcapecod.com /medium.htm (260 words)

	Medium Cool
		It is most likely "Medium Cool", which features sveral MOI tunes.
		Medium Cool is my favorite example of genre-blurring in film.
		It's a fictional story about a bunch of reporters who are out to cover the 1968 Democratic convention.
	globalia.net /donlope/fz/videography/Medium_Cool.html (552 words)

	Medium Cool -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Medium Cool is a 1969 (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) film directed by Haskell Wexler and starring (Click link for more info and facts about Robert Forster) Robert Forster.
		Verna Bloom and Marianna Hill are also featured, and (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Boyle) Peter Boyle has a short scene.
		The film is therefore regarded as one of the first American productions in the (A movie that shows ordinary people in actual activities without being controlled by a director) cinéma vérité style of filmmaking.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/medium_cool.htm (140 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Medium Cool (1969)
		"I love to shoot film" is the sanguine motto of TV lensman John Cassellis (Robert Forster) in Haskell Wexler's 1969 Medium Cool, a semi-documentary investigation of image-making and politics.
		Scripted (from a novel by Jack Couffer), directed, and shot by Oscar-winning cinematographer and political activist Wexler, Medium Cool systematically questions the ideological power of images by combining documentary techniques such as "talking heads" and cinéma vérité with staged scenes between the actors.
		Funding Medium Cool partly out of his own resources, Wexler had free reign during production, but when the execs at Paramount saw the result, they were not pleased.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=1548 (600 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Medium Cool at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		I stumbled across Haskel Wexler's "Medium Cool" by accident while browsing about the video shelves in the library.
		"Medium Cool" is a semi-documentary/semi-fiction story set amidst the backdrop of the late sixties.
		The film details events leading up to the 1968 Democratic Convention and the subsequent riots, and how it affects a reporter, a single mother, and her thirteen year old son.
	www.epinions.com /content_110759743108 (1393 words)

	Zap2it - TV news - Arquette Finds 'Medium' Cool
		Allison DuBois, however, can read minds and communicate with the dead and when she has feelings, they often turn out to be correct, so when Allison DuBois says with some confidence that "Medium," an NBC drama based on her life, will be a hit, it's probably best to believe her.
		Of course, much of the success of "Medium" will ride on whether viewers at home are willing to accept the idea of a suburban soccer mom who fights crime with the help of her special gifts.
		DuBois, about to lose all semblance of anonymity, is a consultant on the show, but she admits that her role in the actual production may be minimal.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|92653\|1\|,00.html (578 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Medium Cool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Medium Cool is a film that bears repeated viewings.
		His work on Medium Cool is certainly the equal of anything else he did.
		Much of Medium Cool's reputation rests on the footage of the Chicago demonstrations that it depicts so vividly.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/mediumcool.php (1458 words)

	DVD Review: Medium Cool
		While it's a bit suprising that the film was originally given an "X" rating upon its original release (later re-rated as an "R"), this is still a powerful film about the time period that everyone should see.
		Overall, I was more than pleased with Paramount's effort here; either the film has been kept in superb condition or they have taken time and care to clean and restore it to this level of clarity.
		SOUND: "Medium Cool" is presented in mono and there's really not a whole lot to discuss.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/mediumcooldvd.html (739 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Medium Cool
		Viewing the civil rights leader's words as terrific television rather than a historic milestone, he blurts out: "Jesus, I love to shoot film." In Haskell Wexler's experimental, interesting Medium Cool (1969), such is the stance of those who operate cameras and capture sound for news — without attachment, without feeling.
		Medium Cool is about as verité as a fictional movie can get — it's easy to be actually worried about these actors while they "act" amongst bloodied, disorderly hippies and hostile police officers.
		At the start of the picture he films a girl hanging near death from a car accident, and he and soundman Gus (Peter Bonerz) appear shockingly callous.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/m/mediumcool.q.shtml (499 words)

	Medium Cool (1969)
		A range of horses are used in many test situations performing specific movements from medium and advanced medium tests.
		One of the main characters within Cool World is, Holli Would (Kim Basinger), who attempts to seduce Jack and escape from the cartoon.
		Medium Cool (1969) Through The Judges Eye - Vol.
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	Zap2it - TV news - 'Medium' Cool with Echevarria
		LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Writer-producer Rene Echevarria is joining the staff of NBC's new drama "Medium," reuniting him with the show's creator, Glenn Gordon Caron.
		Echevarria worked with "Medium" creator Caron on the short-lived "Now and Again" in 1999-2000.
		"Medium" stars Patricia Arquette as a woman who can communicate with the dead and uses her abilities to help the police solve cases.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271\|88433\|1\|10,00.html (193 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Medium Cool
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	Medium Cool Film Review - Time Out Film
		Already under the FBI's gaze for his civil rights and socialist documentaries, Wexler was actually accused of inciting the Chicago riots (the script was registered a year before); later he would again be subpoenaed over Emile de Antonio's film on the Weather Underground, which he shot.
		A fabulously hip cool cult film, full of a healthy brand of american paranoia so rarely seen in the gung-ho days we now live in.
		The great tragedy of the film is that it didn't kick start Forsters career as it should have, instead it took nearly...
	www.timeout.com /film/73006.html (298 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: Medium Cool
		Pioneering cinematographer Haskell Wexler got the bright idea that the 1968 Democratic National Convention would be a hotbed of riots (with Vietnam in its worst years, MLK recently assassinated, and a growing movement fed up with the government) and he was right.
		Originally rated X, Medium Cool has just been reissued on DVD, complete with a telling commentary from Wexler, consulting editor Paul Golding, and actress Hill.
		Wexler's context is outstanding -- but Hill, who is only in about 5 minutes of the movie, has little to do but cringe and squeal when her (fully) nude scene pops up.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/0/edeb77a5f61dd57688256b15006fc9ea?OpenDocument (518 words)

	Welcome to Medium Cool Productions
		Medium Cool Productions creates custom-made, high impact presentations and videos.
		We work with our clients to identify the most effective way to communicate a message to an audience, then work together to craft visual media that can support the message.
		At Medium Cool Productions, our high standards and extensive experience with a variety of multimedia software applications ensure top quality results.
	www.mediumcoolpro.com (97 words)

	CD Baby: STEVE EDMONDS: Medium Cool - from scottp
		'Medium Cool' Steve's debut Root & Blues release is a generous nod to his fellow band mates and musical influences.
		This well crafted album not only features Steve's funky strat, smokey voice and clever songs but focuses on the groove heavy band sound and rythmic interplay of 'The Steve Edmonds Band' at the height of their powers.
		'Medium Cool' is Steve's first step out of his session-man history, exposing him as a bonafide recording artist & producer in his own right.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/steveedmonds/from/scottp (430 words)

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