Word: forster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That is what kind of a man the cameraman in Medium Cool is supposed to be. A man whose mind is completely in the hands of the film he shoots-a man who lives the values of the medium. If anything, the cameraman, Robert Forster, isn't an entirely believable character. He's not enough of a creep and too much of an existential hero. His truthful search to break free from the illusions of his medium don't seem natural to him, and he's also an unbelievable stud. Your real-life cameraman is an amazing turkey...
...Forster gets three beautiful girls in the course of the film, including one long run-around-the-apartment. hand-held-camera, both-of-them-completely-nude ("This picture is rated X") scenc. Haskell Wexler's (the producer and director) point must be that Forster's life is all highlights the way his work is. But that isn't very belivable either...
...blacks and displaced Appalachian whites, as a symbolic seat of the conflict and began shooting last summer in a loose, almost documentary fashion-just as the convention confrontation was reaching a peak of frenzy. The uncomplicated plot turns on the developing love affair between a TV cameraman (Robert Forster) and an Appalachian widow (Verna Bloom), but gains meaning and resonance from the documentary footage surrounding it. The results of this apparently free-form exercise may puzzle some moviegoers and its political sympathies will outrage many more. But the basis of Medium Cool is more than solid enough to support...
Died. Leonard Woolf, 88, author, editor and husband of Novelist Virginia Woolf; of a stroke; in Rodmell, England. His Hogarth Press published not only his wife's novels but also poetry of T. S. Eliot, Freud's Collected Papers, and works of E. M. Forster and Robert Graves. Woolf's five-part autobiography (last volume to be published this fall) is considered a monument to a generation reared in peace, stunned by World War I and the great Depression, yet remaining optimistic that a new age of reason would dawn. In one anecdote, he recalls...
...Nessim are revealed as Coptic Christians involved in smuggling guns to Palestine so that the Jews can fight the British. Pursewarden, who knows of their treachery, keeps silent, apparently out of love for Justine. Melissa meanwhile goes off to a TB clinic, and Nessim's brother (Robert Forster) is assassinated by his own people. And so it goes for another hour until various deaths and suicides bring Justine to an abrupt conclusion...