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Jun 29, 2024 · For the feature film The Bus, activist filmmaker Haskell Wexler boarded a bus in San Francisco with a group of Black and white activists to embark on the three-day, cross-country journey to Washington DC to join the March.
3 days ago · The Conversation is served so well by this 4K restoration, boosting the excellent and enthralling cinematography work of Bill Butler and Haskell Wexler. It’s utterly tense, the sound work brings in a slightly chaotic ebb and flow to an otherwise threateningly quiet film.
2 days ago · In fact, Medium Cool director Haskell Wexler serves as one of two cinematographers here, capturing an urban America that is sanitised, lifeless and uneasy. There is no peace or privacy other than within the extreme loneliness of Harry Caul.
1 day ago · The Conversation is also strikingly framed and shot, and while Bill Butler is onboard as the cinematographer, it was originally Haskell Wexler, who’s only remaining work in the film is that opening sequence (and it’s interesting to discover that Wexler was also fired during One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as well, and replaced by Butler ...
Jun 27, 2024 · That gives the film — which was beautifully photographed by master cinematographer Haskell Wexler — an understated charm that is completely absorbing in its atmosphere and subtle tone. There's magic as well, to be sure — you could almost swear that the seals and seagulls in the film took direction from Sayles as well as any human actor!"
- John Sayles
- Jeni Courtney
Jun 24, 2024 · ‘Medium Cool’: Forceful and lauded when released in 1969, Haskell Wexler’s fact / fiction mix involving a news-cameraman maverick (Robert Forster) and his difficulties both with corporate media and the societal heat of 1968 in general turns out to be almost as relevant as ever.
5 days ago · Wexler continued to be an advocate for shorter shoot days until his death in 2015. A year prior to that, Gary Joe Tuck, a Teamster driver and crew member on the Netflix show “Longmire,” died after falling asleep behind the wheel after an 18-hour shoot. The production offered charter buses for crew members to and from the set after the crash.
