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By Mike Barnes Cinematographer  Haskell Wexler , the socially conscious two-time Academy Award winner who lensed  Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? ,  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest  and many other masterpieces, has died. He was 93. Wexler died in his sleep Sunday at Providence Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica, his son, Oscar-nominated sound man  Jeff Wexler , told  The Hollywood Reporter . On his  website , Jeff posted: "It is with great sadness that I have to report that my father, Haskell Wexler, has died. Pop died peacefully in his sleep, Sunday, December 27th, 2015.  Accepting the Academy Award in 1967, Pop said: 'I hope we can use our art for peace and for love.' An amazing life has ended but his lifelong commitment to fight the good fight, for peace, for all humanity, will carry on." One of the most influential American cinematographers of all time, Wexler nabbed his first Oscar for making  Elizabeth Taylor  look haggard in black and whi

Somente hoje, com alguns meses de atraso, soube da morte do grande realizador italiano Francesco Rosi, mestre de um cinema de preocupações políticas. Sem conseguir copiar o interessante obituário que li sobre ele em The Guardian, transcrevo abaixo uma matéria postada sobre a esnobada totalmente desmerecida que a Academia de Hollywood deu ao não inclui-lo em sua homenagem as personalidades do cinema falecidas recentemente. ***** T he Academy Awards' annual "in memoriam" tribute on Sunday night left out a man who is widely considered one of Italy’s greatest directors,   Francesco Rosi . The snub, which came in addition to snubs of the likes of Elaine Stritch  and  Joan Rivers , drew criticism in the Italian media. Italy’s  Cinecitta News  commented that Rosi was forgotten by the Academy.  Rai News  also ran a story about the snub and used the headline “Oscar Shame.”  La Repubblica  and  Il Messaggero  called the oversight a gaffe. And numerous people on Twitter, who we

Albert Maysles , who collaborated along with his late brother  David  in a documentary career that included the troubling 1970 concert film  Gimme Shelter , has died. He was 88. The director and cinematographer, an Oscar nominee, died Thursday at his home in Manhattan of natural causes,  Stacey Farrar , marketing director at the Maysles Center in New York, confirmed to  The Hollywood Reporter . He had been battling cancer.  Gimme Shelter  — which chronicled the 1969 Rolling Stones tour that culminated in the Altamont Free Concert, at which a fan brandishing a gun was stabbed to death by a Hells Angels security man — stood as a stark and more enduring counterpoint to the documentary  Woodstock , a depiction of the glorified 1969 free concert whose own dark side was left out in its preconceived, celebratory style. Their most well-known film,  Grey Gardens  (1975), was a profile of  Jacqueline Onassis ' eccentric cousins — mother and daughter  Big Edie  and  Little Edie B