Movies: Haskell Wexler
- 2015
Notfilm (2015)
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NOTFILM is a feature-length experimental essay on FILM -- its author Samuel Beckett, its star Buster Keaton, its production and its philosophical implications -- utilizing additional outtakes, never before heard audio recordings of the production mee...
- 1971
Conversation with Allende (1971)
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This interview was conducted shortly after the late President Dr. Salvador Allende won the Chilean elections of 1970. Dr. Salvador Allende was the first democratically elected socialist president in Latin America. Three years later, Allende was kille...
- 1974
Introduction to the Enemy (1974)
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This film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and South Viet Nam in 1974. They travel from villages to towns talking with ordinary Vietnamese about their lives and t...
- 1983
Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War (1983)
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Traveling through villages along the Nicaraguan-Honduran border, the filmmakers document the impact of the covert war against Nicaragua's Sandinista government, featuring interviews with mercenaries, soldiers, spies and civilian victims....
- 2010
Something's Gonna Live (2010)
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The Los Angeles Times Critics' Pick Something’s Gonna Live is an intimate portrait of life, death, friendship and the movies, as recalled by some of Hollywood's greatest cinema artists. Academy Award®-nominated director Daniel Raim (The Man on Linco...
- 2004
Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River (2004)
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A documentary feature that reveals the creative process of Chicago moviemakers. Using the city's famous river as a location, directors are placed in a variety of boats and share stories of how Chicago has influenced their careers....
- 2010
Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up (2010)
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This documentary chronicles half a century of hostile U.S.-Cuba relations. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed by Washington, then ignored by the very government that launched a "war against terrorism."...
- 1976
Land of My Birth (1976)
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Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley...
- 2019
From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey (2019)
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A rookie NPR reporter on his first assignment, covering the armed occupation of Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, is treated as the enemy and ultimately arrested by the FBI for defying a government news blackout to embed with militant Indians....
- 2015
Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session (2015)
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In the video John Hanlon, producer/recording engineer says: "Neil just captures the moment, he gives it his all, he goes for the throat. If he is not feeling it, he ain't gonna pick up the guitar. If he's feeling music, then he is recording, he's pla...
- 1971
Wondering About Things (1971)
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Laymen as well as celebrities in the sciences and creative arts give their views and values regarding their creative efforts and technological society. Their answers add up to the view that science is an indispensable part of mankind's hope for the f...
- 1987
Uncle Meat (1987)
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This is a documentary about an unfinished movie. Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention try to film the sci-fi epic "Uncle Meat."...
- 2015
Rebel Citizen (2015)
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What began as a video master class evolved into a film about the political documentaries of Oscar-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Comprised of footage from his films as well as interviews, the film is an intimate portrait of the genius behind...
- 2008
A Sense of Wonder (2008)
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Biography based on Rachel Carson's book, "The Silent Spring."...
- 2013
Medium Cool Revisited (2013)
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Haskell Wexler revisits the themes of his previous work "Medium Cool" on the occasion of the Occupy demonstrations in Chicago in 2012....
- 2014
The Moving Picture Co. 1914 (2014)
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In the early 1900s, Ellen, an aspiring actress, tries to find her lucky break in a studio where everything goes wrong....
- 1963
Grand Central Market (1963)
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This film portrays activity in Grand Central Market in Los Angeles, California. Highlighted are vendors that represent the melting pot that is America, selling their wares to people of all ages and all walks of life. The film was directed by William ...
- 2007
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks (2007)
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Marvel at the all-star musical cast of Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sarah Lee Guthrie, many other musicians as well as an audience of one-thousand longshore workers. Bridges was an immigrant working stiff who loved Karl Marx and Jack Lo...
- 1979
Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1979)
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Documentary about the atomic testing done in the desert of Nevada, the health risks it posed to closely involved military personnel, and the lack of transparency from US administrations about its effects on the public at large....
- 1953
The Living City (1953)
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This short explores the early planning innovations and the subsequent mistakes that resulted in developing urban sprawl, suburbia, and gentrification in modern day US cities as well as the effects it had on its populace and industry....