D. A. Pennebaker
Also Known As: Donn Alan Pennebaker, D.A. Pennabaker, DA Pennebaker, Don Alan Pennebaker, D.A. Pennebaker, D. A. Pennabaker
Biography: Donn Alan Pennebaker (July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Evanston, Illinois, USA
Birthday: July 15, 1925
Deathday: August 01, 2019
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Gender: Male
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Ricky on Leacock
Overview: A 38-year journey that the director began in 1972 as a young filmmaker and, shooting off and throughout many years, the director filmed many and various encounters between Ricky, his friends and contemporaries including Henri Langlois, Jean Rouch, Jean-Luc Godard, DA Pennebaker, Robert Drew, and others. Mixing her own footage with film clips and rare images from Leacock's personal film archives, this film pays homage to the director's mentor and, most importantly, allows him to tell us the story of his long film making career in his own words.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-10
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Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales
Overview: Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts. With testimonies from Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Edgar Morin, D.A. Pennebaker and others.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Wild 90
Overview: Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-08
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Overview: With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage. Born in 1932 in Brooklyn, busking through the South and West in the early 50s, a year with Woody Guthrie, six years flatpicking in Europe, a triumphant return to Greenwich Village in the early 60s, mentoring Bob Dylan, then life on the road, from gig to gig, singing and telling stories. A Grammy and the National Medal of Arts await Jack near the end of a long trail. What will Aiyana find for herself?
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-08-16
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A Venue For The End Of The World
Overview: Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-09-14
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Janis: Little Girl Blue
Overview: Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-09
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Morris Engel: The Independent
Overview: Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-08
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1 P.M.
Overview: Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in “one American movie”; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his dismay he discovered that revolution wasn’t imminent, and Pennebaker edited Godard’s material, to which he and Richard Leacock even added a bit more, releasing the result as One P.M., as in “one parallel movie.” It’s a stunning mixture of cinéma-vérité, political theater, and interviews of key sixties figures.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-08
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Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
Overview: A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
Overview: In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-20
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Overview: A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-09
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Overview: A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-21
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Up Your Legs Forever
Overview: The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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World Tour 1966: The Home Movies
Overview: With a set of drums and an 8mm color home movie camera, Mickey Jones toured the world in 1966 with Bob Dylan and The Band. He captured on film what became known as "The tour that changed Rock and Roll forever." The booing crowds, the scathing reviews, the stomping feet, the infamous catcall of "Judas!" ... all of this in response to Dylan trading in his acoustic folk guitar for an electric sound. Now, for the first time, drummer-turned-actor Mickey Jones (Sling Blade, Home Improvement), with the help of Director Joel Gilbert, chronicles the legendary 1966 Bob Dylan World Tour through his recently discovered home movies. The updated release includes new, exclusive full-length interviews with Charlie Daniels, Johnny Rivers, 1966 World Tour and Gaslight tapes sound man Richard Alderson, and new insights and revelations by Mickey Jones.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Godard Made in USA
Overview: Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-11
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Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Overview: The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and truly unusual outsider artist was the biggest star in the world.
Genres: Animation Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-20
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