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Medium Cool Series: 1968: An International Perspective [April 29-May 14] Director: Haskell Wexler, Country: USA, Release: 1969, Runtime: 110 "A film of tremendous visual impact, a kind of cinematic Guernica...a picture of America in the process of exploding into fragmented bits of hostility, suspicion and violence."--Vincent Canby, The New York Times "The most famous collision between life and art in an American film." - A. O. Scott, The New York Times “Staggeringly ambitious!” — Michael Sragow, The New Yorker Already an award-winning cinematographer, Haskell Wexler decided to stake a considerable amount of his own money in an independent production about the contemporary ethics of journalism--but got far more for his investment than he could have ever imagined. Wexler's fictional story involved brash news cameraman John Cassellis (beautifully played by Robert Forster), known for chasing down a story wherever he needed to go, who discovers that his station has been selling his footage to the government to help track down agitators. Cassellis quits and strikes out on his own. Meanwhile, his relationship with Eileen (Verna Bloom) and her son Harold (Harold Blankenship) grows deeper. But then Wexler, his film and his characters got caught up in the actual police riots that accompanied the 1968 Democratic Convention. Suddenly, fictional characters became part of real events, and real characters wandered into a fictional story. One of the most important American independent films of the '60s and amazing to watch. Actress Verna Bloom will introduce the screening on Monday, May 12.

Buy Tickets Fri May 9: 4:45 Mon May 12: 6:15* *Intro /Q&A with actress Verna Bloom