Movies: Haskell Wexler

  • 2015
    Notfilm

    Notfilm (2015)

    Notfilm

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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...

    Notfilm
  • 1971
    Conversation with Allende

    Conversation with Allende (1971)

    Conversation with Allende

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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...

    Conversation with Allende
  • 1974
    Introduction to the Enemy

    Introduction to the Enemy (1974)

    Introduction to the Enemy

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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...

    Introduction to the Enemy
  • 1983
    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War

    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War (1983)

    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War

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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....

    Target Nicaragua: Inside a Covert War
  • 2010
    Something's Gonna Live

    Something's Gonna Live (2010)

    Something's Gonna Live

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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...

    Something's Gonna Live
  • 2004
    Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

    Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River (2004)

    Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River

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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....

    Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River
  • 2010
    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up

    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up (2010)

    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up

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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."...

    Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up
  • 1976
    Land of My Birth

    Land of My Birth (1976)

    Land of My Birth

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    Documentary about the Jamaican presidential campaign of Michael Manley...

    Land of My Birth
  • 2019
    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey (2019)

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey

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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....

    From Wounded Knee to Standing Rock: A Reporter's Journey
  • 2015
    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session

    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session (2015)

    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session

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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...

    Neil Young - Haskell Wexler - Teatro Session
  • 1971
    Wondering About Things

    Wondering About Things (1971)

    Wondering About Things

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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...

    Wondering About Things
  • 1987
    Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat (1987)

    Uncle Meat

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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."...

    Uncle Meat
  • 2015
    Rebel Citizen

    Rebel Citizen (2015)

    Rebel Citizen

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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...

    Rebel Citizen
  • 2008
    A Sense of Wonder

    A Sense of Wonder (2008)

    A Sense of Wonder

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    Biography based on Rachel Carson's book, "The Silent Spring."...

    A Sense of Wonder
  • 2013
    Medium Cool Revisited

    Medium Cool Revisited (2013)

    Medium Cool Revisited

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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....

    Medium Cool Revisited
  • 2014
    The Moving Picture Co. 1914

    The Moving Picture Co. 1914 (2014)

    The Moving Picture Co. 1914

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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....

    The Moving Picture Co. 1914
  • 1963
    Grand Central Market

    Grand Central Market (1963)

    Grand Central Market

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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 ...

    Grand Central Market
  • 2007
    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks (2007)

    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks

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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...

    From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
  • 1979
    Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang

    Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang (1979)

    Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang

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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....

    Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang
  • 1953
    The Living City

    The Living City (1953)

    The Living City

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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....

    The Living City