Cast: Haskell Wexler

Direction Mark Cousins

Cast Aleksandr Sokúrov · Norman Lloyd · Lars von Trier · Paul Schrader

Plot 'The Story of Film: An Odyssey' is a documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total length of 900 minutes. It...

Direction Arnold Glassman · Todd McCarthy · Stuart Samuels

Cast Robert Wise · Gordon Willis · Conrad L. Hall · Caleb Deschanel

Plot Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a...

Direction Mimi Freedman

Cast Martin Landau · Hillard Elkins · Lawrence Kasdan · Eli Wallach

Plot The life and times of actor Steve McQueen, on the 75th anniversary of his birth.

Direction James Chressanthis

Cast Vilmos Zsigmond · László Kovács · Vittorio Storaro · John Boorman

Plot The artistry, triumph and lifelong friendship of the great cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond. With film school equipment, they shoot the Soviet crackdown of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. As...

Direction Amy Scott

Cast Jane Fonda · Jeff Bridges · Dustin Hoffman · Jon Voight

Plot Between 1970 and 1979, the films of Hal Ashby collected seven Academy Awards and 24 Academy Award nominations. He was a major player in the so called "New Hollywood" era...

Direction Emile de Antonio · Mary Lampson · Haskell Wexler

Cast Emile de Antonio · Haskell Wexler · Bill Ayers · Kathy Boudin

Plot It's the mid 1970's and the Weather Underground Organization (WUO), a radical (and violent) offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), explains to leftist filmmakers the difficulties and...

Direction Daniel Raim

Cast Robert F. Boyle · Henry Bumstead · Conrad L. Hall · Harold Michelson

Plot "Daniel Raim has followed his Oscar-nominated The Man on Lincoln's Nose, a warm and illuminating short documentary on renowned production designer Robert Boyle with the equally delightful and thoughtful feature-length...

Direction Luciano Barcaroli · Carlo Hintermann · Gerardo Panichi · Daniele Villa

Cast Penelope Allen · Sergei Bodrov Jr. · Jim Caviezel · Ben Chaplin

Plot Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE (considered three main moments in the American cinema),...

Direction Paul Cronin

Cast Bill Ayers · Warren Beatty · Verna Bloom · Peter Bonerz

Plot Production history of Haskell Wexler's ground-breaking 1969 feature Medium Cool.

Direction Alexis Krasilovsky

Cast Akiko Ashizawa · Caroline Champetier · Michelle Crenshaw · Zoe Dirse

Plot This made-by-women-for-women global documentary explores the lives of camerawomen in Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Mexico, Russia, Senegal, and more. From the secret films by camerawomen of Taliban, to...

Direction Cass Warner

Cast Dennis Hopper · Sherry Lansing · Debbie Reynolds · Haskell Wexler

Plot An intimate portrait and saga of four film pioneers--Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack who rose from immigrant poverty through personal tragedies persevering to create a major studio with a social...

Direction Jon Fauer

Cast Remi Adefarasin · Russ T. Alsobrook · Howard A. Anderson III · Peter Anderson

Plot CINEMATOGRAPHER STYLE is about the Art and Craft of Cinematography. It is about how everything, from life experiences to technology, influences and shapes an individual's visual style. Because of the...

Direction Ross Lipman

Cast Ross Lipman · Kevin Brownlow · Judith Douw · S.E. Gontarski

Plot A feature-length 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...