Haskell Wexler

For Haskell Wexler, the director of Medium Cool, and the Oscar-winning cinematographer of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Bound for Glory, writing about his ten favorite Criterion films became a trip down memory lane. His responses, made up of the impressions he associates with each film, remind us that our opinions on movie are inextricable from our own personal experiences of them. Of selecting these titles, Wexler told us, “This is my gut memory of films I liked a lot. The reasons will be obscure to you, because they certainly are to me.”

Biography via Criterion.