Visual consultant Haskell Wexler prior to a screening of “American Graffiti,” presented at Oscars® Outdoors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Friday, August 2, 2013. credit: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Haskell Wexler, one of Hollywood’s most famous and honored cinematographers and one whose innovative approach helped him win Oscars for “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and the Woody Guthrie biopic “Bound for Glory,” died Sunday. He was 93.
From the AP:
Wexler died peacefully in his sleep, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man Jeff Wexler, told The Associated Press.
A liberal activist, Wexler photographed some of the most socially relevant and influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, including the Jane Fonda-Jon Voight anti-war classic, “Coming Home,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger racial drama “In the Heat of the Night” and the Oscar-winning adaptation of Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
- 12/27/2015
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
New York -- If you didn't know much about Esperanza Spalding – and many people didn't before her surprise Grammy win last year – you might be inclined to think that her latest album, "Radio Music Society," is the jazz artist's attempt to crossover into the mainstream music world.
There certainly are several elements of the record that could lead to such a conclusion. It's her most accessible album, with R&B friendly grooves and production credits from rapper Q-Tip. It even features a cover of a Michael Jackson groove from "Off the Wall."
But if you know Esperanza like renowned jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, a frequent collaborator and a guest on "Radio Music Society," you will know that the bassist, songwriter, singer and producer never strays far from her jazz roots, and is not one to alter her sound so it fits neatly into any format – and certainly doesn't do it...
There certainly are several elements of the record that could lead to such a conclusion. It's her most accessible album, with R&B friendly grooves and production credits from rapper Q-Tip. It even features a cover of a Michael Jackson groove from "Off the Wall."
But if you know Esperanza like renowned jazz drummer Jack DeJohnette, a frequent collaborator and a guest on "Radio Music Society," you will know that the bassist, songwriter, singer and producer never strays far from her jazz roots, and is not one to alter her sound so it fits neatly into any format – and certainly doesn't do it...
- 3/22/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
I've revealed many personal details here, but the other day I discovered something I didn't much want to share. I am shrinking. During a routine test of my bone density, a nurse backed me up against a wall and used a built-in device to measure me.
"Five feet, five and a half inches," she said. If this was true, I had lost two and a half inches.
It could not be true, I reasoned. I must not have been standing up straight. My shoulders and back were damaged during surgery, and it's harder for me to do the ramrod routine. My head tends to lean forward. And so on and so forth.
Okay, so let's say I only lost two inches.
Whatever it was, this was a sign of mortality. I was never tall, but I was always tall enough. In church on Sunday mornings as we stood up to sing a hymn,...
"Five feet, five and a half inches," she said. If this was true, I had lost two and a half inches.
It could not be true, I reasoned. I must not have been standing up straight. My shoulders and back were damaged during surgery, and it's harder for me to do the ramrod routine. My head tends to lean forward. And so on and so forth.
Okay, so let's say I only lost two inches.
Whatever it was, this was a sign of mortality. I was never tall, but I was always tall enough. In church on Sunday mornings as we stood up to sing a hymn,...
- 6/15/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Title: How to Live Forever Director: Mark Wexler Featuring: Suzanne Somers, Jack Lalanne, Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller and more Aging, if we’re lucky, is something that happens to all us. And yet, despite the many billions of industry and consumer dollars devoted annually to anti-wrinkle creams and everything else under the sun to stop the inexorable march of time, it’s a topic we’d at all costs rather avoid than have a honest societal discussion about — witness Sarah Palin’s willfully gross distortion of end-of-life counseling services during the national health care debate, turning them into “death panels” coming to snatch your grandparents out of their homes and euthanize them in the...
- 5/24/2011
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
- 5/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Amy R. Handler
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
(May 2011)
Directed by: Mark Wexler
Written by: Robert DeMaio and Mark Wexler
Featuring: Ray Bradbury, Phyllis Diller, Ray Kurzweil, Jack Lalanne, Willard Scott, Suzanne Somers and Pico Iyer
Whether human or vampire, there’s no denying we’re all getting older. But surely there must be some way to trick the big D.
In a three-year effort to find the answer to “How to Live Forever,” inspired by the recent passing of his mother and his own maddening obsession with aging, documentary filmmaker Mark Wexler (“Tell Them Who You Are”) set off around the globe to meet the most creative geniuses of our era — with some even dating a bit earlier than that. When watching the result, be prepared for one of the most wild and provocative journeys of your life (pun definitely intended).
First order of business: a visit to the Heritage House Convalescent Center in Shelbyville,...
- 5/19/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
As navel-gazing documentarians go, Morgan Spurlock has nothing on Mark Wexler. His first film, Me And My Matchmaker, focused on a yenta trying to find him the perfect match. In Tell Them Who You Are, he explored and exploited his relationship with his father, Haskell, the famous Hollywood cinematographer. Now that Wexler has rounded 50, How To Live Forever treats us to a feature-length look at the aging process: what it means, how it might be slowed down, and whether that’s a good thing. Like Willard Scott without the jam, Wexler tracks down centenarians, including the world’s oldest ...
- 5/12/2011
- avclub.com
Just from the trailer itself, I’ve learned that living forever involves smoking, running, drinking beer, lifting your hands up to the sky, not knowing that you’re the oldest person alive, taking pills, using calipers, and being funny. The forthcoming documentary How To Live Forever is an exploration of old age both from those who have it and those who want to avoid it. It looks sharp and funny, as if Morgan Spurlock suddenly became obsessed with dying (and not dying). Director Mark Wexler looks to have created something truly touching here. Check it out for yourself: // It’s a little bittersweet to see Jack Lalanne on screen after his recent death, but over all this film looks to be playful while plumbing the rusty pipes of an age-old question. How long do you want to live? Source: Apple...
- 4/11/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Documentarian Max Wexler has had a growing presence in his films. His first feature Me & My Matchmaker focuses on a dedicated matchmaker, but turns to include Wexler as she attempts to find his match. Next came Tell Them Who You Are, a portrait of Wexler’s cinematographer father that also explored Wexler’s wish to step out of his father’s shadow. In his latest, How to Live Forever, Wexler boldly steps into the spotlight, training the lens on himself, his fear of death, and his new found desire to live forever.
While living forever was once a thing of sci-fi fantasy, with ever-evolving science and nutrition regimes, eternity may be closer than we think. With it’s first trailer, you can get a taste of Wexler’s wild ride to immortality. Check it out below via Apple and the poster via Gatw.
Filmmaker Mark Wexler is not going down without a fight.
While living forever was once a thing of sci-fi fantasy, with ever-evolving science and nutrition regimes, eternity may be closer than we think. With it’s first trailer, you can get a taste of Wexler’s wild ride to immortality. Check it out below via Apple and the poster via Gatw.
Filmmaker Mark Wexler is not going down without a fight.
- 4/7/2011
- by Kristy Puchko
- The Film Stage
It’s human nature to try and live for as long as one can.
That’s exactly the idea at the center of the latest film from director Mark Wexler, entitled How To Live Forever. A documentary, the film follows Wexler, son of the iconic cinematographer Haskell Wexler, on his travels around the world “searching for the secrets of long life" after the loss of his mother.
Read more on Exclusive: Poster premiere for Mark Wexler’s How To Live Forever...
That’s exactly the idea at the center of the latest film from director Mark Wexler, entitled How To Live Forever. A documentary, the film follows Wexler, son of the iconic cinematographer Haskell Wexler, on his travels around the world “searching for the secrets of long life" after the loss of his mother.
Read more on Exclusive: Poster premiere for Mark Wexler’s How To Live Forever...
- 4/7/2011
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
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- 3/9/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Variance Films to release the new documentary from Mark Wexler in May 2011 (Photo Above: Fitness expert, Jack Lalanne teaches Mark Wexler about fitness during the filming of Mark Wexler’s How To Live Forever)
Variance Films has acquired all Us theatrical rights for How To Live Forever, the new feature film from acclaimed writer-director Mark Wexler (Tell Them Who You Are). Variance founder Dylan Marchetti announced the acquisition today and stated that his firm will release the film in conjunction with Wexler.s World on May 13, 2011 in New York, followed by a national expansion.
In How To Live Forever, director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack Lalanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil,...
Variance Films has acquired all Us theatrical rights for How To Live Forever, the new feature film from acclaimed writer-director Mark Wexler (Tell Them Who You Are). Variance founder Dylan Marchetti announced the acquisition today and stated that his firm will release the film in conjunction with Wexler.s World on May 13, 2011 in New York, followed by a national expansion.
In How To Live Forever, director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. But whose advice should he take? Does 94-year-old exercise guru Jack Lalanne have all the answers, or does Buster, a 103-year-old chain-smoking, beer-drinking marathoner? What about futurist Ray Kurzweil,...
- 3/9/2011
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
U.S. theatrical rights to writer-director Mark Wexler's "How to Live Forever" have been picked up by Variance Films, the company's founder Dylan Marchetti said Tuesday. Variance will release the film on May 13th in New York, followed by other dates nationwide. Release follows: New York, March 8, 2011 – Variance Films has acquired all Us theatrical rights for How To Live Forever, the new feature film from acclaimed writer-director Mark ...
- 3/8/2011
- Indiewire
AFI Fest 2004 has rolled out an eclectic roster for its 18th annual Los Angeles International Film Festival, ranging from The Assassination of Richard Nixon, directed by Niels Mueller and starring Sean Penn, to Yesterday, directed by Darrell James Roodt. In addition to Assassination, this year's special screenings include Tim Daly's Bereft, Christophe Barratier's Les Choristes, Ray McKinnon's Chrystal, Robert Lepage's Far Side of the Moon, Asia Argento's The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, Daniel Anker's Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, Ariel Vroman's Rx, Mark Wexler's Tell Them Who You Are, Nicole Kassell's The Woodsman and Yesterday.
- 10/7/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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