Word: wexler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...films from the Institute of Politics Series, "Interview" with President Salvador Allende" by Saul Landau Haskell Wexler, and Louis Malle's Phantom India (Part I), will be screened free tonight at 7:30 in HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH...
...summer however, American critics and audiences began to consider films in increasingly political terms. The reception of The Candidate made it seem that earlier attempts by Haskell Wexler and Emile de'Antonio had prepared U.S. critics at long last for a film which at least broached contemporary issues. Even The Trial of the Catonsville Nine a lib-rad pageant released in early June received much kinder treatment from the press due to political leanings which film critics would probably not have generally taken into consideration a few years back...
Unfortunately, despite the claims of that New York Times interviewer blazoned over the ads, the film is as Establishment a piece of goods as any. It is photographed by Haskell Wexler in his slickest if-we-have-a-tiny-set-I'm-gonna-move-my-camera-anyway style (which produced the most glaring defects in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf). It is staged as a conscious theater piece, with actors orating to the audience--failing to produce what I suppose was intended as Brechtian effect, but making the whole affair come off like a video-taped TV show...
...original company from the theater without having them scale down their acting for the screen. Peter Strauss's reserved and affecting Thomas Lewis is an exception, as is Flanders' creditable Daniel Berrigan. Almost everyone else-most irritatingly Douglass Watson as Philip Berrigan-plays for the rafters. Haskell Wexler's superb photography, however, effectively challenges the visual restrictions of a transposed stage play...
...when Senator Edward Kennedy declined to enter the contest. The Muskie team has put together a proficient political organization and plans to field a tough-to-beat delegate slate that will help Muskie capture all of the convention votes from Massachusetts. In Connecticut liberal leaders Joe Duffey and Anne Wexler have climbed aboard, assuring Muskie the support he needs...