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Medium Cool at 45
“Beyond the age of innocence…into the age of awareness,” read the caption at the top of Medium Cool‘s stylized poster when the film was released 45 years ago in 1969. The line is telling in that it speaks to the real-life events at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago that are captured in the film. [...]
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Tagged 1968, 1969, Chicago, cinema, Democratic convention, documentary, film, Haskell Wexler, Medium Cool, riot, Robert Forster
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Apocalypse Again: Coppola & Milius
Several posts back I mentioned that this year is the 45 anniversary of Francis Ford Coppola’s production house American Zoetrope. It also happens to be the 35th anniversary of the 1979 film Apocalypse Now which was written by Zoetrope man of letters, John Milius and directed — of course — by Coppola himself. Fellow Zoetroper [...]
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Tagged 1968, 1979, Apocalypse Now, Democratic convention, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Haskell Wexler, John Milius, Medium Cool, Zoetrope Studios
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