Haskell Wexler

…moviemaking was encouraged by cinematographer Haskell Wexler. In 1966 Lucas received a bachelor’s degree from the film department of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. While there, future director John Milius, a classmate, introduced Lucas to the work of Japanese director Kurosawa Akira, who would be an important…

…film-school-trained cinematographers (including Conrad Hall, Haskell Wexler, and William Fraker) as well as with the Hungarian-born cinematographers Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond, to bring the heightened cinematic consciousness of the French New Wave to the American screen. Their films frequently exhibited unprecedented political and social consciousness as well.

…because of director and cinematographer Haskell Wexler’s mixing of fact and fiction and his inclusion of actual footage he shot at the disastrous 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The film originally received an X rating, ostensibly because of its explicit language and nudity, but most critics felt the harsh…