Small Berkeley presents: Friday night, PFA, 9.15pm "Medium Cool"
"The success of Haskell Wexler's first feature, Medium Cool, happily indicates that the era of the cameraman-director has arrived, and with this film, an entirely new approach to fictional documentary. Critics and audiences have been astonished by the use of an infamous American incident—the riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention—as a background for film drama. Here, it is often difficult to separate fact from staged events, because Wexler did everything on location, carrying his camera (he is a veritable disciple of Dziga Vertov), aware of the dizzyingly hazardous confrontations between demonstrators and police."[bampf.berkeley.edu]
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Small Berkeley presents: Friday night, PFA, 9.15pm "Medium Cool"
"The success of Haskell Wexler's first feature, Medium Cool, happily indicates that the era of the cameraman-director has arrived, and with this film, an entirely new approach to fictional documentary. Critics and audiences have been astonished by the use of an infamous American incident—the riots in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention—as a background for film drama. Here, it is often difficult to separate fact from staged events, because Wexler did everything on location, carrying his camera (he is a veritable disciple of Dziga Vertov), aware of the dizzyingly hazardous confrontations between demonstrators and police."[bampf.berkeley.edu]
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