Film: Medium Cool

Thu Nov 2, 7 – 9 pm

Hosted by Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library & Yale Film Archive
Details MEDIUM COOL (Haskell Wexler, 1969, 35mm, 111 mins)
Robert Forster stars as a TV news cameraman at Chicago’s 1968 Democratic National Convention in what Vincent Canby called 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, fear, and violence.” 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive.

The Art & Protest” film series is presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library and the Yale Film Archive in conjunction with the exhibition Art, Protest, & the Archives” on view at the Beinecke through January 7, 2024.
Admission FREE
Location Humanities Quadrangle, Lower Level
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