If you want to see a great Chicago film, in my opinion the greatest, see “Medium Cool.” The 1969 film will be screened at the Music Box Theatre on Monday evening. There are at least 10 reasons why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I directed the best political movie never released.” Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Viewers in Chicago await a screening of the film 'Medium Cool,' focused on the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. Heather ...

Ed Bachrach in last Saturday’s Tribune writes a wonderful, insightful essay on “10 reasons to see ‘Medium Cool,’ featuring real scenes of 1968 DNC.” He correctly calls the Haskell Wexler film the best ...

Filmmaker Haskell Wexler thus described Medium Cool, his violent feature set during Chicago’s riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention. His movie opened (sort of) exactly 55 years ago this week.

On the third day of the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Chicago police beat protesters in a free-for-all on Michigan Avenue. The iconic images of that melee have since been incorporated into ...

It’s 1968, and the whole world is watching. With the U.S. in social upheaval, famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Days of Heaven) decided to make a film about what the hell was going on. His debut ...