Tell Them Who You Are Bound for Glory

Tell Them Who You Are is Mark Wexler's attempt to understand his larger-than-life father, award-winning cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Stay for the second feature, and see Haskell Wexler's work in Bound for Glory, Hal Ashby's portrait of Woody Guthrie.

Second feature start time: 8:45 pm. As a cinematographer, Haskell Wexler has a reputation for brilliance, winning two Academy Awards and working with such giants as George Lucas, Elia Kazan, Mike Nichols, and Francis Ford Coppola. Now 82, Wexler was also a political activist, accompanying Jane Fonda to Vietnam during the height of the war.

Wexler's son Mark is himself an accomplished photojournalist and documentarian. In Tell Them Who You Are, he produces an expansive and intimate portrait of his father through film clips and interviews with such collaborators as Jane Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Paul Newman, among many others. Mark Wexler provides a unique glimpse into Hollywood family ties in the context of a son's attempt to understand and reconcile himself with his larger-than-life father. (95 mins.)

Haskell Wexler won his second Academy Award for Bound for Glory, an evocative look at Depression-era America through a portrait of leftist songwriter Woody Guthrie (David Carradine). (Hal Ashby, 1976; 147 mins.)