Medium Cool

Event Date as Display String:

Friday, January 31, 2020, 8:30pm - 10:20pm

Location:

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

URL:

https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/medium-cool-2020-01

Event Description:

Gazette Classification: Film Organization/Sponsor: Harvard Film
Archive Cost: $9 - Regular Admission $7 - Non-Harvard Students,
Harvard Faculty and Staff, and Senior Citizens. Free for Harvard
students Contact Info: bgravely@fas.harvard.edu Link:
https://harvardfilmarchive.org/calendar/medium-cool-2020-01 The
directorial debut of veteran cinematographer Haskell Wexler, "Medium
Cool" is a landmark independent production that makes canny use of
documentary techniques in constructing a fiction feature. Set in
Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, the narrative
focuses on a television cameraman who becomes personally involved with
the people and stories he covers, including a black cabbie, a single
mother from Appalachia, and a group of protesters who clash with
police outside the convention hall. Designed as a "wedding between
features and cinema verité," Wexler's attempt to smuggle political
reality into a theatrical tale faced significant challenges from
distributors, critics and censors, but has survived as an important
witness to its times.

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Friday, January 31, 2020 - 20:30 to 22:20

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