Tell Them Who You Are

"What I do for a living, which is making movies, is not me," Haskell Wexler lectures his exasperated middle-aged son Mark, a documentarian, even though movies like WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF (1966), ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1975) and AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) made Haskell famous. A moment of silence for Leo Tolstoy, please: Mark's portrait of his father, the Academy Award-winning cinematographer and director, is one more bit of proof that Tolstoy was right on the nose about unhappy families. Despite their fractious relationship rooted in the uniquely unhappy Haskell-family dynamics, Mark managed to produce a creditable overview of his father's illustrious ...