Real Events of ’68 Seen in ‘Medium Cool’
Vincent Canby
The New York Times, 19 September 1969
John Cassellis (Robert Forster), the hero of Haskell Wexler’s Medium Cool, is a television news cameraman, an instrument that observes, selects, isolates and photographs the reflection of a visible world. With all of the emotional commitment of a highly skilled technician, he moved through the United States in the spring and summer of 1968 mummifying the times as defined by events – such things as automobile accidents, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Resurrection City, riot training at a National Guard camp, the disorders that erupted during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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