Medium Cool

Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1969. Vintage reference photograph from the 1969 film, showing Haskell Wexler capturing a scene with Robert Forster. Annotations in manuscript pencil on the verso.

A hardened and dubiously ethical television cameraman finds out he is being watched by the FBI amidst the tumultuous protests taking place around the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Highly influential for its groundbreaking use of factual historical events interspersed with fictional narrative, and its frank depiction of the contemporary countercultural movement. Featuring early music by Frank Zappa's band Mothers of Invention.

Due to its startlingly political narrative, as well as nudity and language, the film was originally given an X rating by the MPAA, though by 1970 this would be downgraded to an R.

10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.

Criterion Collection 658. Spicer US Neo-Noir.

[Book #168073]