Plokta: Medium Cool (1969)

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Haskell Wexlerโ€™s countercultural classic marked a historic turning point for US politics and cinema. A vivid retelling of 1968โ€™s pivotal shift โ€œbeyond the age of innocenceโ€, it was also at the vanguard of the Hollywood Renaissance. Like ๐˜•๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ธ๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ๐˜ฌ (1976), Wexlerโ€™s debut is a gripping, paranoid critique of television news, but with an anarchic spiritedness all of its own.

Medium Cool emphasises the ambiguous role of the camera in social change โ€“ a โ€œcool mediumโ€, in Marshall McLuhanโ€™s words inspiring the filmโ€™s title. Through its dramatic narration of a TV news cameraman woken up to the turbulent politics of the era, the film emphasises the power of footage either to reinforce or challenge the status quo. Itโ€™s the latter that the film performs, its pioneering mixture of fiction and nonfiction capturing a culture on fire, and by doing so throwing more fuel on the flames.


Regisseur

  • Haskell Waxler

Acteurs

  • Robert Forster
  • Verna Bloom
  • Peter Bonerz

Jaar

  • 1969

Speelduur

  • 1 uur en 55 minuten