Known mainly for his work in documentaries, Haskell Wexler felt the need to show us that reality can be beautifully confused with the movies. 1969’s Medium Cool is his demonstration of that, a picture that broke those boundaries wide open. It was only 1969; the decade of cinema that was to follow would learn from Medium Cool’s lessons on perspective, narrative, and tone; the film itself, sadly, has became a little lost in time.

For most of the film’s runtime, the camera is its own…
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