Medium Cool (1969) (cinema, filmed, scene, vhs)

[BlueWillowPlate]

This stroll back in time is a bit more intense than Across the Universe.
Chicago, summertime, and the Democratic convention 1968. We lost Martin Luther King, we lost Bobby Kennedy.
The movie is very disjointed, basically a series of vignettes strung together.
But the vignettes are pretty good, and the characters are compelling.
There is also real footage from the convention's riots, with the famous line: "Look out, Haskell! It's real!"
(Haskell Wexler was the cinematographer, he wades into some very real tear gas.)
The main thrust of the story is what seemed to run through so very many movies made back then: the anti-hero and his loss of innocence.
But so much of the movie still resonates today: Violence as spectacle, racial issues, the responsibility of the media.
I don't know much tech stuff about making movies, but it seemed to me that some of the camera shots were awesome, and this was long before computer aids entered the movie-making scene.
The soundtrack is dynamite: Paul Butterfield, Mothers of Invention, and Love.

[LRUA]

I have it in my collection on glorious VHS ...it was way ahead of it's time ...they actually filmed some of it during the Chicago riots of Aug 1968 ..very bold thing to do ...especially with the technology of that time ...I also like it because it stars Peter Bonerz ....best known for being the debtist guy on the old Bob Newhart Show .... very realistically shot ...semi-documentary style ...IMO definitely a must see

[delusianne]

I've never seen it, but "Watch out, Haskell, it's real!" is legendary

[elhamad]

thankssssssssss