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Ever since Haskell Wexler shot "Medium Cool," his seminal critique of television, during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the possibility that art might make a showing during our collective ...

Attractive stage-trained actress who made her screen debut as the female lead in Haskell Wexler's brilliant anti-establishment critique "Medium Cool" . Alternating between film and TV, Bloom earned praise in ...

Woodstock Film Festival officials have announced that cinematographer and director Haskell Wexler will receive the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award at the this year's festival, which runs from Oct.

By Ed Driscoll June 03, 2008 12:25 AM Hollywood, Interrupted Right Wing Trash explores one of the more interesting cinematic curios from the late 1960s: Haskell Wexler's quasi-guerrila cinema classic, Medium ...

When two-time Academy Award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler met George Lucas, the Modesto native was just a skinny kid in his 20s who loved cars and was thinking of going to film school.

Picture this: It's freaking 4:30 Thursday morning in downtown Petaluma. A camera crew waddles around in the vacant lot next to The Mystic Theater.

American film director and producer Main born May 14, 1944, Modesto, California, U.S. American motion-picture director, producer, and screenwriter who created several of the most popular films in history. via Encyclopaedia Britannica

Film Once upon a time, lo these 40 springs ago, children all over the world joined forces to smoke dope, make love, listen to the Rolling Stones, and smash the state: Did it ever really happen? Mais oui, say ... via The Village Voice

“It's total theater; everyone's an actor”

The 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago - ' to say nothing of the violent confrontations between police and antiwar protesters that simultaneously seethed in the city's parks and streets - ' can ... via New York Times

"Chicago 10" may be the first cartoon documentary. It combines loads of news reports and guerrilla footage about the civil disorder in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic Convention with motion-capture animated ... via Inside Bay Area

Norwegian Hanne Mugaas works with Fabienne Stephan to curate Artist Looking at the Camera for the 10th anniversary of Art in General's Video Marathon in New York from January 10 to 12. via Norway

Monday 3rd December 8pm at the Cube Cinema Monday 3rd December 8pm at the Cube Cinema, Stokes Croft, Bristol. via Bristol.indymedia.org

“I love to sing-a/About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a...About a sky of blue-a/Or a tea for two-a...”

T wo months ago I talked to Criterion technical director Lee Kline about the remastered DVD release of 'Days of Heaven,' Terrence Malick's 1978 drama photographed by Nestor Almendros and an uncredited Haskell ... via Chicago Tribune