: American Cinema Verite and, This page was last edited on 8 October 2020, at 21:19. [1], Pennebaker has been described as "arguably the pre-eminent chronicler of Sixties counterculture". A crucial moment in the development of direct cinema, the collective produced documentary films for clients like ABC News (for their television series, Close-up) and Time-Life Broadcast (for their syndicated television series, Living Camera). Pennebaker, obit, Obituary. In, Jeanne Hall. : The Nonhuman Rights Project, "D.A. So I filmed him talking to people and listening to people. : The Nonhuman Rights Project", "D.A. [34], His style has also been spoofed by Weird Al Yankovic[35] and the Emmy-nominated mockumentary series Documentary Now. The documentary got attention in Europe,[9][10] and a few weeks later, Bob Dylan's manager, Albert Grossman, approached Pennebaker about filming Dylan while he was touring in England. Pennebaker) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema.

[16], He also collaborated with Jean-Luc Godard, who had been impressed by Primary. Then in 1963, Pennebaker and Leacock left the organization to form their own production firm, Leacock-Pennebaker, Inc. Pennebaker would direct a number of short films over the course of two years. By Press Association 2020. “Dylan was important — that was the first thing I was convinced of,” the filmmaker recalled. [7], In 1959, Pennebaker joined the equipment-sharing Filmakers’ Co-op and co-founded Drew Associates with Richard Leacock and former LIFE magazine editor and correspondent Robert Drew. The two soon became collaborators and then married in 1982. They’re made the way music is written, or books. Asking questions was no good; I wanted to watch Dylan in as intimate a way as possible.”. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, who have turned their lenses on public figures as diverse as Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan and . "The Class of 101". 60–65. Widely considered to be the first candid and comprehensive look at the day-by-day events of a Presidential race, it was the first film in which the sync sound camera could move freely with characters throughout a breaking story, a major technical achievement that laid the groundwork for modern-day documentary filmmaking. The first of these films, Monterey Pop, was released in 1968 and was later ranked at No. Pennebaker!

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[6] It was even used as the theatrical trailer. “But it wouldn’t be as much fun to do.”, Pennebaker received his only Emmy nomination in 2004 for, , and the following year the International Documentary Association awarded him with its Career Achievement Award. Drew, Leacock and Pennebaker, as well as photographers Albert Maysles, Terrence McCartney Filgate and Bill Knoll, all filmed the campaigning from dawn to midnight over the course of five days.

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