Visual consultant Haskell Wexler prior to a screening of “American Graffiti,” presented at Oscars® Outdoors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, August 2, 2013. credit: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
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 Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
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 Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- 12/27/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Do you know who Jacques Bolsey was? Also known as Jacques Bogopolsky, he was the inventor of the Bolex movie camera, the name of which is derived from his own. If you’d like to know more, especially given that his Wikipedia page is really bare, there’s a documentary in the works about him and his importance to cinema history, as well as how he’s now influencing a new product called the Digital Bolex. And if you really, really want to see it, you can help it reach its budget goal of $35,000. The funny thing is, this doc, titled Beyond the Bolex, is seeking crowdfunding through Kickstarter to tell the story of something that was itself a huge Kickstarter success (the Digital Bolex, not the original, obviously). That’s half of the focus, while the other half looks back on Bolsey’s version, a camera that anyone who isn’t a film school reject will...
- 3/23/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
- 5/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
- 5/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
As navel-gazing documentarians go, Morgan Spurlock has nothing on Mark Wexler. His first film, Me And My Matchmaker, focused on a yenta trying to find him the perfect match. In Tell Them Who You Are, he explored and exploited his relationship with his father, Haskell, the famous Hollywood cinematographer. Now that Wexler has rounded 50, How To Live Forever treats us to a feature-length look at the aging process: what it means, how it might be slowed down, and whether that’s a good thing. Like Willard Scott without the jam, Wexler tracks down centenarians, including the world’s oldest ...
- 5/12/2011
- avclub.com
Documentarian Max Wexler has had a growing presence in his films. His first feature Me & My Matchmaker focuses on a dedicated matchmaker, but turns to include Wexler as she attempts to find his match. Next came Tell Them Who You Are, a portrait of Wexler’s cinematographer father that also explored Wexler’s wish to step out of his father’s shadow. In his latest, How to Live Forever, Wexler boldly steps into the spotlight, training the lens on himself, his fear of death, and his new found desire to live forever.
While living forever was once a thing of sci-fi fantasy, with ever-evolving science and nutrition regimes, eternity may be closer than we think. With it’s first trailer, you can get a taste of Wexler’s wild ride to immortality. Check it out below via Apple and the poster via Gatw.
Filmmaker Mark Wexler is not going down without a fight.
While living forever was once a thing of sci-fi fantasy, with ever-evolving science and nutrition regimes, eternity may be closer than we think. With it’s first trailer, you can get a taste of Wexler’s wild ride to immortality. Check it out below via Apple and the poster via Gatw.
Filmmaker Mark Wexler is not going down without a fight.
- 4/7/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
Variance Films to release the new documentary from Mark Wexler in May 2011 (Photo Above: Fitness expert, Jack Lalanne teaches Mark Wexler about fitness during the filming of Mark Wexler’s How To Live Forever)
Variance Films has acquired all Us theatrical rights for How To Live Forever, the new feature film from acclaimed writer-director Mark Wexler (Tell Them Who You Are). Variance founder Dylan Marchetti announced the acquisition today and stated that his firm will release the film in conjunction with Wexler.s World on May 13, 2011 in New York, followed by a national expansion.
In How To Live Forever, director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack Lalanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil,...
Variance Films has acquired all Us theatrical rights for How To Live Forever, the new feature film from acclaimed writer-director Mark Wexler (Tell Them Who You Are). Variance founder Dylan Marchetti announced the acquisition today and stated that his firm will release the film in conjunction with Wexler.s World on May 13, 2011 in New York, followed by a national expansion.
In How To Live Forever, director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack Lalanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil,...
- 3/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Filmmaker and cinematographer Haskell Wexler.
Haskell Wexler Shoots From The Hip
By
Alex Simon
Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976). He also shot much of Days of Heaven (1978), for which credited director of photography Nestor Almendros -- who was losing his eye-sight, won a Best Cinematography Oscar. In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by the cinematographer's guild, the American Society of Cinematographers. He has received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades.
Born in Chicago to a wealthy family on February 6, 1922, Wexler cut his teeth shooting industrial films, TV commercials and documentaries. He...
Haskell Wexler Shoots From The Hip
By
Alex Simon
Two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler was adjudged one of the ten most influential cinematographers in movie history, according to an International Cinematographers Guild survey of its membership. He won his Oscars in both black & white and color, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976). He also shot much of Days of Heaven (1978), for which credited director of photography Nestor Almendros -- who was losing his eye-sight, won a Best Cinematography Oscar. In 1993, Wexler was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award by the cinematographer's guild, the American Society of Cinematographers. He has received five Oscar nominations for his cinematography, in total, plus one Emmy Award in a career that has spanned six decades.
Born in Chicago to a wealthy family on February 6, 1922, Wexler cut his teeth shooting industrial films, TV commercials and documentaries. He...
- 10/6/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Sundance Channel said Wednesday that it has acquired U.S. pay television rights to Tell Them Who You Are, a documentary about Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler (Bound for Glory). The film -- directed by Wexler's son, Mark -- will make its U.S. TV premiere on Sundance next year. Tell Them -- which explores the Wexler father-son dynamic, among other issues -- features interviews with Wexler's previous collaborators, including George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Mike Nichols, Ron Howard and Julia Roberts, among others.
- 5/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AFI Fest 2004 has rolled out an eclectic roster for its 18th annual Los Angeles International Film Festival, ranging from The Assassination of Richard Nixon, directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, to Yesterday, directed by Darrell James Roodt. In addition to Assassination, this year's special screenings include Tim Daly's Bereft, Christophe Barratier's Les Choristes, Ray McKinnon's Chrystal, Robert Lepage's Far Side of the Moon, Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, Daniel Anker's Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Ariel Vroman's Rx, Mark Wexler's Tell Them Who You Are, Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman and Yesterday.
- 10/7/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO -- Among the telling facts that emerge from Tell Them Who You Are, photojournalist Mark S. Wexler's documentary about his dad, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, is that when Haskell was young he helped organize a strike by workers in his father's own factory. Another equally telling fact is that Mark, the son of one of Hollywood's most notable left-wingers, is politically conservative and more than willing to goad his father by giving him a framed photo of himself with the first President Bush.
Clearly, a spirit of contrariness and familial rebellion runs through the Wexler clan. It is that spirit which makes Tell Them such a lively, often hilarious yet profoundly moving experience. The film is less a documentary about Haskell Wexler than a complex portrait of a most difficult father-son relationship, one in which a son struggles his whole life to step out from his father's domineering shadow.
More festival dates loom, but the film is an excellent candidate for theatrical distribution as well as for TV exposure. Haskell might even find it in his heart to be proud of his son. But don't bet on it.
From the opening moment, you realize this will not be a conventional docu as its subject keeps trying to tell the director what to do. In one wonderfully funny sequence, the two shout at each other in a hotel room as Haskell tries to tell Mark his feelings about a day spent at an antiwar rally last year while Mark tries to maneuver his father into the fading sunlight. "This is not a fucking Miller Beer commercial!" yells the exasperated cameraman.
Both Wexlers are constantly shooting each other with their individual cameras as Haskell tries but fails to influence how the movie will view him. There is certainly no argument that, as director Norman Jewison puts it, Haskell can be a "pain in the ass" on a set.
Mark interviews a number of movie personalities including Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Billy Crystal. One key figure is the late cinematographer Conrad Hall, one of Haskell's closest friends and a man whom Mark admits he would have liked to have for a father. Curiously, Hall's own son has a similar affinity for Mark's dad.
The things that drive Haskell -- his politics, values and fear of intimacy -- clearly kept him from becoming what he probably should have been: a director. (He did, of course, direct the landmark film Medium Cool.) The final moments, when the two men pay a visit to Mark's ailing mother, an Alzheimer's patient, will leave few dry eyes in the audience.
This is a remarkable work.
TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE
Wexlers World
Credits:
Director/writer/director of photography: Mark S. Wexler
Additional photography: Sarah Levy
Music: Blake Leyh
Editor: Robert DeMaio
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 95 minutes...
TORONTO -- Among the telling facts that emerge from Tell Them Who You Are, photojournalist Mark S. Wexler's documentary about his dad, legendary cinematographer Haskell Wexler, is that when Haskell was young he helped organize a strike by workers in his father's own factory. Another equally telling fact is that Mark, the son of one of Hollywood's most notable left-wingers, is politically conservative and more than willing to goad his father by giving him a framed photo of himself with the first President Bush.
Clearly, a spirit of contrariness and familial rebellion runs through the Wexler clan. It is that spirit which makes Tell Them such a lively, often hilarious yet profoundly moving experience. The film is less a documentary about Haskell Wexler than a complex portrait of a most difficult father-son relationship, one in which a son struggles his whole life to step out from his father's domineering shadow.
More festival dates loom, but the film is an excellent candidate for theatrical distribution as well as for TV exposure. Haskell might even find it in his heart to be proud of his son. But don't bet on it.
From the opening moment, you realize this will not be a conventional docu as its subject keeps trying to tell the director what to do. In one wonderfully funny sequence, the two shout at each other in a hotel room as Haskell tries to tell Mark his feelings about a day spent at an antiwar rally last year while Mark tries to maneuver his father into the fading sunlight. "This is not a fucking Miller Beer commercial!" yells the exasperated cameraman.
Both Wexlers are constantly shooting each other with their individual cameras as Haskell tries but fails to influence how the movie will view him. There is certainly no argument that, as director Norman Jewison puts it, Haskell can be a "pain in the ass" on a set.
Mark interviews a number of movie personalities including Jane Fonda, Michael Douglas and Billy Crystal. One key figure is the late cinematographer Conrad Hall, one of Haskell's closest friends and a man whom Mark admits he would have liked to have for a father. Curiously, Hall's own son has a similar affinity for Mark's dad.
The things that drive Haskell -- his politics, values and fear of intimacy -- clearly kept him from becoming what he probably should have been: a director. (He did, of course, direct the landmark film Medium Cool.) The final moments, when the two men pay a visit to Mark's ailing mother, an Alzheimer's patient, will leave few dry eyes in the audience.
This is a remarkable work.
TELL THEM WHO YOU ARE
Wexlers World
Credits:
Director/writer/director of photography: Mark S. Wexler
Additional photography: Sarah Levy
Music: Blake Leyh
Editor: Robert DeMaio
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 95 minutes...
- 9/16/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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