A carefully crafted, open-to-everything mixture of live-wire reality and controlled narrative, Medium Cool is the debut fiction feature of Haskell Wexler, who had already established himself as one of Hollywood's premiere cinematographers in the post-studio-system-era on such films as Elia Kazan's America, America and Mike Nichols' Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. In 1968, he hurled himself into the tear-gas of the cultural-political moment. The result was, alongside Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, a seminal early work of what came to be known as "the New Hollywood". John (the prolific Robert Forster, who would find latter-day fame in Jackie Brown, Mulholland Drive, and Breaking Bad) plays a television cameraman who has become disenchanted as a creative subservient to the mainstream. Eileen (Verna Bloom latterly of High Plains Drifter and After Hours) depicts a newly relocated war-widow swept up in the maelstrom of the conflicts of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago - the actual events of which serve as the spontaneous backdrop for Wexler's picture. Documentary and narrative blur in the upheaval and chaos, and perhaps only Peter Watkins' Punishment Park stands analogous as such a powerful statement on the politics, media, and cinema of the late-'60s - and the present. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Haskell Wexler's Medium Cool for the first time in the UK on Blu-ray and DVD. SPECIAL FEATURES: Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray from the 4K digital film transfer approved by director Haskell Wexler Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Audio commentary with writer and director Haskell Wexler, editorial consultant Paul Golding, and actor Marianna Hill Look Out Haskell, It s Real! , extended excerpts from Paul Cronin s documentary Excerpts from Sooner or Later, Harold Blankenship is interviewed almost 40 years after appearing in Medium Cool Haskell and the Cameras, Wexler demonstrates the cameras used to make Medium Cool Original theatrical trailer 28-PAGE BOOKLET featuring a summary of the government-commissioned report on the Democratic National Convention riot of 1968 illustrated with archival imagery Review An exciting piece of work that must be seen by anyone who cares about the development of modern movies --NewsweekOne of the best pictures of 1969... Haskell Wexler is some kind of thumping genius... you'll never forget this one --Cosmopolitan Running Time: 110 minutes Region: Region B/2 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.) Release Date: 31 Aug. 2015

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