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Ginsberg, 1968
Photo: Elsa Dorfman I haven’t got around to posting a lot about 1968, but we’re celebrating the anniversary of one of the craziest years ever, and it’s been helpful for me to look back on that yesteryear chaos to remind myself that these times are comparatively calm. Seriously. While everybody is uneasy about the Supreme [...]
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Tagged 1968, Allen Ginsberg, archive, Chicago, Democratic National Convention, Poetry, riot
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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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