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Look Out, It’s Real!

By Michael Atkinson

“Look out, Haskell, it’s real!,” shouts a crew member, in the watershed moment from Haskell Wexler’s 1969 seminal is-it-real-or-is-it-cinema, American New Wave classic Medium Cool. This moment in a fiction film wasn’t fiction at all: the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, which Wexler attended with his cast and crew anticipating a riot. Of course, he got one, got tear-gassed (and… return to article

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