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Insights from Haskell Wexler

By IDA Editorial Staff


Cinematographer Haskell Wexler on fiction, film, and foreign policy at IDA's DOC U: Straight Shooting - A Conversation with World-Class Documentary DPs held April 25, 2011
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Haskell Wexler is an academy award winning Cinematographer responsible for films like American Graffiti and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. But he was also an underrated director of documentaries touching on topics like sleep deprivation, torture, and the infamous Weather Underground. This past month he discussed his work with a panel of cinematographer at Cinefamily's Silent Movie Theater for a discussion on cinematography put on by the International Documentary Association. Here, he speaks with panel moderator Richard Pearce. FROM 89.3 KPCC/Public Radio