ECSTATIC Screen Notes

ECSTATIC Screen Notes

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ECSTATIC Screen Notes
Medium Cool

Medium Cool

Haskell Wexler, 1969

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Jason Hedrick
Aug 22, 2024
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In the week of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago it’s essential to recommend taking a look back at a fiction/documentary hybrid that captured the 1968 DNC with unprecedented form and resonance, Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool. Writer/director Wexler had already achieved notoriety for his work as a cinematographer, particularly with his Oscar fo…

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