DVD | Color 95 min | Full Screen. Produced by THINKFilm Documentaries
ISBN 978-0-8026-0639-6
Price:$29.99*Home Video includes Public Library Circulation rights.
ISBN 978-0-8026-0640-2
Price:$260.00**Academic and Institutional price including Public Performance rights for non-paying audiences.
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"…COMPELLING. AN OVERVIEW OF A GREAT ARTIST’S LIFE AS WELL AS THE POWERFUL STORY OF A FATHER AND SON STRUGGLING TO CONNECT."
-Vanity Fair
"…A STUNNING PERSONAL DOCUMENT – FUNNY, TOUCHING, VITAL."
-Rolling Stone
"ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST FILMS. FUNNY, INTIMATE AND SUPRISINGLY POIGNANT."
-Associated Press
"FASCINATING! THE RICHEST DOCUMENTARY OF ITS KIND SINCE TERRY ZWIGOFF’S ‘CRUMB’."
-New York Times
SummaryTwo-time Academy Award® winner (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bound for Glory), Haskell Wexler was director of photography on some of the most significant films of the last forty years, including In the Heat of the Night,/i>, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and Coming Home.
In Tell Them Who You Are, Mark Wexler masterfully blends biography and autobiography centering on his relationship with his father, throughout the legendary filmmaker's illustrious career, including the collaborations with such world-class filmmakers as Elia Kazan, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.
Haskell Wexler is a larger-than-life character who challenges his son’s choices about camera placement, lighting and storytelling while announcing with complete conviction that he could have done a better job directing most of the films he’s shot. As these two men swap positions on camera and behind it – sometimes shooting one another simultaneously – the film explores the specifics of this particular father/son dynamic, while also revealing more universal truths about how our parents teach us to see the world and how legacies, both personal and artistic, are created.
