Haskell Wexler

Tell Them Who You Are (2004)

Cast: Elia Kazan George Lucas Albert Maysles Paul Newman Sidney Poitier Michael Douglas Milos Forman  

Tags: Film & Television History Interpersonal Relationships Film, TV & Radio Family & Personal Relationships Biography 

Length: 95min

Mark Wexler is a successful photojournalist who has also distinguished himself as a documentary filmmaker, but in many ways he has spent much of his life in the shadow of his more famous father, Haskell Wexler. One of Hollywood's greatest...

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Who Needs Sleep? (2005)

Length: 78min

In 1997, Brent Hershman had spent 19 hours hard at work as a camera assistant on the set of the film Pleasantville one day before he was allowed to go home. The exhausted Hershman fell asleep at the wheel of his car shortly afterward, and died in an...

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Bus Riders Union (2000)

Tags: History Social Issues 

Length: 86min

Legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler directs this vérité activist documentary about the pathetic state of L.A.'s public transportation system. Recalling his first film, The Bus (1965), Wexler focuses on the city's appallingly overbudgeted -- and...

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Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography (1993)

Cast: Sven Nykvist Vittorio Storaro   

Tags: Media Studies Film & Television History Film, TV & Radio Visual Arts 

Length: 90min

The film equivalent of a stroll through the Louvre, the documentary Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography collects interviews with many of modern-day Hollywood's finest directors of photography and is illustrated by examples of their best work...

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Look Out Haskell, It's Real! The Making of "Medium Cool" (2001)

Tags: History Social History Film, TV & Radio 

Length: 51min

In the summer of 1968, cinematographer Haskell Wexler went to Chicago to shoot his first directorial effort, a drama about a television news cameraman who finds it difficult to remain objective about the events surrounding him. Wexler intended to use...

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Underground (1974)

Tags: History Social History Politics & Government 

Length: 88min

Since most of the members of the Weather Underground interviewed in this film were fugitives at the time it was made in 1974, the FBI attempted to impound it as evidence. After several years of legal battles, it was finally released. These radicals,...

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Introduction to the Enemy (1974)

Cast: Jane Fonda   

Tags: Social Issues Culture & Society Military & War 

Length: 60min

This documentary was made during the most intense period of fighting in the Vietnam War. U.S. participation in that conflict lasted from 1956 (approximately) until 1975. Here Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden travel to North Vietnam in order to show the North...

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Medium Cool (1969)

Tags: Drama Social Problem Film Political Drama 

Length: 111min

"I love to shoot film" is the sanguine motto of TV lensman John Cassellis (Robert Forster) in Haskell Wexler's 1969 Medium Cool, a semi-documentary investigation of image-making and politics. With his soundman, Gus (Peter Bonerz), John films such...

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Latino (1985)

Tags: War Drama Drama War 

Length: 108min

The fighting between the Sandinista government in Nicaragua and the Contra rebels backed by U.S. money and expertise is the focus of this pro-Sandinista film by Haskell Wexler. The appropriately named Eddie Guerrero (translation Eddie "Warrior") is a...

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