| We just added one more,” Wexler told fellow Chicagoan Roger Ebert in a 1969 interview. I had no idea about the scope of it.
Haskell Wexler signed the letter, from the Colombia Support Network .[1]. Bruce Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988, The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels, America Salutes Richard Rodgers: The Sound of His Music, The Final 4 Minutes and 17 Seconds of Emily Dixon, International Cinematographer's Guild Heritage Series, La fabuleuse histoire des studios hollywoodiens: Warner Bros, A Cinematic Life: The Art & Influence of Conrad Hall. He both wrote and directed the work. (1966) (1966) and Bound for Glory (1976) (1976). Medium Cool (1969), a film written by Wexler and shot in a cinéma vérité style, is studied by film students all over the world for its breakthrough form. George Lucas, then 20, met Wexler who shared his hobby of auto racing. ". February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015. [10], Wexler was fired as cinematographer for Miloš Forman's 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and replaced by Bill Butler. “I wrote it, I shot it, I had to fight my way through to get it seen, and I think it expressed what I wanted to do,” he said. For Wexler, Medium Cool, set amid the confrontations between Mayor Richard Daley’s police force and Vietnam War protestors during the 1968 Democratic Convention, was a stylistic breakthrough and a popular hit, especially on college campuses. In 1993 Haskell Wexler was listed as a among "former Visiting Fellows and Visiting Scholars and current TransNational Institute Fellows" on the Institute for Policy Studies 30th Anniversary brochure. The Chicago legend also finished shooting Terrence Malick’s spectacular Days of Heaven (1978), for which Nestor Almendros received the cinematography Oscar, and photographed the Oscar-winning short-subject documentary Interviews With My Lai Veterans (1971). "Haskell Wexler, Oscar-Winning Cinematographer, Dies at 93. Letter to Presidents Clinton and Samper Haskell Wexler on the set of “Medium Cool” Everett Wexler, it was known, hated Daley and hoped the party would nominate a candidate far to the left of Humphrey. While still in grade school he worked with Micky Pallas, a Chicago still-photographer in the trade-union movement. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Haskell Wexler (Fred Hayes / WireImage / Getty Images) Influential cinematographer and documentarian Haskell Wexler, who won Oscars for his work in both areas, has died, according to Variety. Too hot for its own studio (Paramount), Medium Cool was a box office failure but has since been seen for what it is: A prophetic work that could not be more relevant today. In the mid-1970s, he and a friend, the cinematographer Conrad Hall, founded Wexler-Hall, a commercial production company. For American Graffiti (1973), he served as supervising cameraman and visual consultant after meeting George Lucas at a race track and giving him a recommendation that helped him get into USC’s film school. ), “There were serious complaints when we were shooting back east, that it was too dark, and they knew that I was inexperienced,” Wexler recalled in a conversation with Russian cinematographer Yuri Neyman. Among his many other honors, Mr. Wexler received an Independent Spirit Award for “Matewan” (1987), about West Virginia coal miners, the first of four films he would shoot for the director John Sayles and the producer Maggie Renzi. Your call for the release of Gerardo Hernandez Nordelo, Antonio Guerrero Rodriguez, Fernando Gonzalez Llort, Ramon Labanino Salazar, and Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert, known as the Cuban 5, and your willingness to visit with their family members in Cuba mean a great deal to all involved. Then he went in as a ‘real’ cameraman and we photographed him. In an eerie portend to the Midnight Rider disaster that killed crewmember Sarah Jones last year, Wexler said he also was challenged by the film’s shoots involving a moving train.
Haskell Wexler, who was renowned as one of the most inventive cinematographers in Hollywood and an outspoken political firebrand, died on Sunday in Santa Monica, Calif. He garnered a second trophy 10 years later for his work on Bound for Glory, Hal Ashby’s biopic of folk singer Woody Guthrie during his Dust Bowl years. In 2003 Haskell Wexler was on the Advisory Board of the Rosenberg Fund for Children[2].
“I was interested in a cameraman going out and seeing the world and being challenged by his interaction with the world, where he’d previously been an observer,” Mr. Wexler said. We strongly agree that there is no reason to keep these men, who were simply trying to protect their country from terrorism, imprisoned any longer... Further, we enthusiastically support you in having subsequent discussions with President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and hope you will call for urgent action on their part to make right this unjust situation. Mr. Wexler directed a documentary, “Who Needs Sleep?” (2006), that examined the routine overworking of Hollywood film crews (and, by extension, America’s 24/7 work ethic), and he seemed to sleep little himself. After the film, Mike Nichols gave me a photograph in this silver frame, but there was nothing in the photograph.
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,Haskell Wexler[5], Open Letter to the Colombian People, Press and Government, Aug. 1996, Rosenberg Fund for Children Letterhead June 19 2003, Actors and Artists United for the Freedom of the Cuban 5, Open Letter to the Colombian People, Press and Government: Stop the Bloodshed in Uraba, Due Process for Jose Antonio Lopez, Nelson Campo and others, and an End to Faceless Justice and Political Repression, August 1996, http://mltoday.com/subject-areas/cuba/letter-from-san-antonio-activists-supporting-the-cuban-5-1231.html, https://www.keywiki.org/index.php?title=Haskell_Wexler&oldid=365278. The People's Cinematographer - Haskell Wexler By Saul Landau [published in 'The Progressive', April 1998 . Both Wexler and Butler received Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, though Wexler said there was "only about a minute or two minutes in that film I didn't shoot.”[4], However, he won a second Oscar for Bound for Glory (1976), a biography of Woody Guthrie, whom Wexler had met during his time in the Merchant Marine. Wexler, who often said he was profoundly influenced by French master Jean-Luc Godard (the Breathless filmmaker once stayed at Wexler’s home for a few days but said little), is the rare cinematographer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He wrote, directed and co-produced the feature film Latino (1985) and lensed the Michael Moore satire Canadian Bacon (1995). Wexler recognized that standard lighting tended to produce too much glare on that kind of dark complexion and rendered the features indistinct. The documentary Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1980) earned an Emmy Award; Interviews with My Lai Veterans (1970) won an Academy Award. But the director of that film, Mr. Forman, said the dismissal actually stemmed from artistic differences, adding that Mr. Wexler was difficult to work with. Influential cinematographer and social documentarian Haskell Wexler, who won Oscars for his work in both arenas, has died. Haskell Wexler is the brother of Yale Wexler and the uncle of Daryl Hannah. Duane Byrge and Arlene Washington contributed to this report. “I remember turning the TV on and seeing an empty backyard, in black and white, and thinking ‘Haskell Wexler shot this,’ ” Mr. Sayles said. Accordingly, Wexler toned it down to feature Poitier with better photographic results.
Another directing project was From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks (2007), an intimate exploration of the life and times of Harry Bridges, an extraordinary labor leader and social visionary described as "a hero or the devil incarnate--it all depends on your point of view."[15].
Later he admitted he was just finishing the work of Almendros and when Bert Schneider offer him more credit in the Criterion Dvd release of the film, he turned down the offer.
Asked about his approach to his art, and whether he had any kind of philosophical perspective on cinematography, he says that the way he shoots is “more deeply personal than anything I could comprehend and maybe than a psychiatrist could comprehend.” He adds: “I don’t attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. Wexler also worked as director of photography on Gore Vidal’s political gem The Best Man (1964); Norman Jewison’s best picture winner In the Heat of the Night (1967); the three-time Oscar winner Coming Home (1978); the comeback documentary Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip (1982); and Lee Tamahori’s gritty Mulholland Falls (1995). Official Sites. In 1963 Wexler self-funded, produced and photographed the documentary The Bus in which a group of Freedom Riders are followed as they make their way from San Francisco to Washington D.C..[7] That same year he served as the cinematographer on his first big-budget film, Elia Kazan's America America. (February 6, 1922 – December 27, 2015) was an American cinematographer, movie producer, screenwriter and director.He was born in Chicago, Illinois.He won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography in 1966.. Wexler was known for his works One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Medium Cool, In the Heat of the Night, Days of Heaven and for Matewan. “But having worked on all kinds of documentaries and just being fearless when I’m behind the camera, it was not seriously dangerous. “Sure enough, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton sloshed out into the scene, in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ Just something about the depth, the layers of light, very natural but very alive.”. Upon his discharge, Wexler returned to the Windy City, where he spent 10 years making documentary and educational films before heading back to California. The photograph was all black in this silver frame. I suspected with today's political climate, there'd be violence in Chicago. Mr. Wexler received the last Oscar that would be given for black-and-white cinematography, for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966). He worked on documentaries and short subjects, the 1959 docudrama “The Savage Eye,” the classic sitcom “The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet” and other television shows. Pop died peacefully in his sleep, Sunday, December 27th, 2015. Pop died peacefully in his sleep, Sunday, December 27th, 2015.
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