This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember cinematographer Haskell Wexler. He died Sunday at the age of 93. Wexler won Oscars for "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf" and "Bound For Glory," and was ...
Mark Wexler has made one of the most bizarrely entertaining, yet frustrating, documentaries of the year. The subject is his 82-year-old dad, Haskell Wexler, who besides directing “Medium Cool,” was ...
He was best known for his work on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. Wexler's son Jeff announced the news earlier today (December 27), via his personal website. He ...
Wexler explains that, back in the ’60s and ’70s, a cinematographer would have to rely on their own perception and ultimately intuition if they wanted to get their film shot with a specific tone in ...
Haskell Wexler is an Oscar-winning cinematographer and an outspoken advocate for saner workdays on film shoots. He wrote an open letter after the Midnight Rider incident His 2006 documentary Who Needs ...
“If you don’t know where the fuck we are right now,” cinematography lion Haskell Wexler barks to his camera-bearing son at the onset of Tell Them Who You Are, “just look around! You’re making a ...
LOS ANGELES -- Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood's most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and the Woody ...
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 ...
Wexler won Oscars for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and Bound for Glory, and was nominated for One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Matewan. He... Remembering Oscar-Winning Cinematographer Haskell ...
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.