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STF Fall Season Tribute to D.A. Pennebaker & Chris Hegedus Begins. This fall Stranger Than Fiction Docs at NYC’s IFC Center is screening eight films from Pennebaker Hegedus. This is the first time that STF has devoted its entire season to one filmmaking team.
Feb 10, 1972 · 1 P.M.: Directed by Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, D.A. Pennebaker. With Marty Balin, Amiri Baraka, Carol Bellamy, Eldridge Cleaver. Impressions of resistance and revolution in America, as shot on both coasts by visiting director Godard in the pivotal year of 1968, but not completed and not shown, after being taken over by local ...
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D. A. Pennebaker. Donn Alan Pennebaker ( / ˈpɛniːbeɪkər /; July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects.
After shooting the film, Godard and Leacock both decided to leave town, Godard going off with Gorin to start a new leftist cinema and Leacock to teach at MIT. I was left to deliver something to Public Television or face severe contractual coercion.
Sep 26, 2019 · Legendary documentarist Donn Alan Pennebaker (D.A.) died Aug. 1, 2019, at age 94. Pennebaker had been a central figure in the evolution of documentary filmmaking as we know it today in terms of craft, style, and impact. In its Aug. 3 obituary The New Times heading read “D.A. Pennebaker, pioneer of Cinema Verite in America, dies at ...
Mar 24, 2011 · The London-born Leacock, whose list of collaborators included Robert Flaherty on “Louisiana Story” and D.A. Pennebaker, died peacefully at his home, according to a report posted on the Flaherty...
Jun 4, 2012 · Pennebaker and Leacock left Drew Associates in June 1963 and started their own company, Leacock Pennebaker Inc., which lasted until the early 1970s, and was arguably one of the most productive periods of Pennebaker's life.
