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In 1964, a group of high school friends who live on the Near North Side of Chicago enjoy life to the fullest...parties, hanging out, meeting new friends. Then life changes for two of the guys when they meet a pair of career criminals and get falsely arrested in connection with stealing a Cadillac.
- Synopsis
- Picture 8/10
- Audio 7/10
- Extras 7/10
- Closing
Chicago, 1964: it’s the last weeks of high school for aspiring poet Preach (Glynn Turman) and his best friend, Cochise (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), and they have a full slate of extracurricular activities: swinging dance parties, late-night joyrides, and the stumbling pursuit of romance. Of course, when you’re a young Black man in America, your coming...
Michael Schultz’s Cooley Highreceives an all-new Blu-ray special edition from The Criterion Collection and is presented on a dual-layer disc in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation is sourced from a new 4K restoration taken from a scan of the 35mm original negative. Right off it’s clear Criterion’s new pr...
The film is presented with a single-channel lossless PCM soundtrack. Despite everything being centralized to that center channel the audio shows a commendable amount of range, especially when it comes to delivering the film’s impressive collection of 60’s songs. Dialogue also sounds sharp with no distortion present, and there are no signs of damage...
This is sadly not a stacked edition, with comments and topics being repeated across the features we do get, yet seeing as how the film has never received anything remotely close to a special edition prior to this edition (through MGM’s own DVD and Olive’s Blu-ray) I’m sure fans of the film will be thankful there is anything at all. A 9-minute makin...
The features aren't what they could be and the presentation’s color-grading is a bit questionable, but following many lackluster editions Criterion’s 4K restoration kicks new life into Schultz’s classic high school film. BUY AT:
Cooley High. In 1964 on Chicago's Near-North Side, the lives of four carefree high school seniors and best friends, including an aspiring playwright and an all-city basketball champion, takes a tragic turn.
- (5.6K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Michael Schultz
- 1978-07-05
Cooley High is a 1975 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film that follows the narrative of high school seniors and best friends, Leroy "Preach" Jackson (Glynn Turman) and Richard "Cochise" Morris (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs).
Amid the blaxploitation craze, Cooley High showed a slice of urban life rarely seen on the big screen. It is a bittersweet coming-of-age story set in Chicago's notorious...
Dec 13, 2022 · A departure from the tales of sex and violence that defined Black cinema in the early 1970s, Michael Schultz’s beloved coming-of-age film celebrates the emotional bonds among a group of young Black men.
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Sep 2, 2015 · Michael Schultz’s “Cooley High” (1975) and Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines’s documentary “Seventeen” (1982) look at young Midwestern lives in the city and the suburbs.
