Movies: Richard Leacock

  • 1948
    Louisiana Story

    Louisiana Story (1948)

    Louisiana Story

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    The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home....

    Louisiana Story
  • 2014
    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy

    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy (2014)

    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy

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    In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! With the flair of a...

    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy
  • 1992
    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992)

    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

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    An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the movement with insight on the lives and works of Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut and other princip...

    Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
  • 1958
    Brussels Loops

    Brussels Loops (1958)

    Brussels Loops

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    A collection of twenty short films, averaging 2-3 minutes, by various filmmakers depicting American life, intended to be shown in a continuous loop at the American Pavilion of the 1958 Brussels World’s Fair. Some releases of the film include ten extr...

    Brussels Loops
  • 1999
    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter (1999)

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

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    Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful. She speaks of her way of looking, the impact of landscape, and a new sense of narrative and composition...

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter
  • 1962
    Jane

    Jane (1962)

    Jane

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    Documentary focusing on 25 year-old actress Jane Fonda as she and her director Andreas Voutsinas prepare a stage play called The Fun Couple for Broadway....

    Jane
  • 1935
    Canary Island Bananas

    Canary Island Bananas (1935)

    Canary Island Bananas

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    Filmed on his father's plantation, Leacock’s sophisticated use of pans and tilts described the process of planting, harvesting, and shipping Canary Island bananas made with a little help from Polly Church and Noel Florence. This film was shown to fam...

    Canary Island Bananas
  • 1967
    A Stravinsky Portrait

    A Stravinsky Portrait (1967)

    A Stravinsky Portrait

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    This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra rehearsal. Includes conversations with a variety of friends and musical collaborators. Includes footage...

    A Stravinsky Portrait
  • 1960
    Primary

    Primary (1960)

    Primary

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    Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to use light equipment in order to follow their subjects in a more intimate filmmaking style. This unconve...

    Primary
  • 1960
    Christopher and Me

    Christopher and Me (1960)

    Christopher and Me

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    Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race....

    Christopher and Me
  • 2008
    Morris Engel: The Independent

    Morris Engel: The Independent (2008)

    Morris Engel: The Independent

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    Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel...

    Morris Engel: The Independent
  • 1987
    Jimi Plays Monterey

    Jimi Plays Monterey (1987)

    Jimi Plays Monterey

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    Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever. Virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, even though he was already an established entity in ...

    Jimi Plays Monterey
  • 1970
    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo (1970)

    Queen of Apollo

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    In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth and I went to visit some friends of mine whose teenager daughter was to be Queen of a fancy Mardi Gras ball. I ...

    Queen of Apollo
  • 1989
    Message to Man

    Message to Man (1989)

    Message to Man

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    In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its events, guests and participants, such as the American director Leo Hurwitz, the Latvian director Iva...

    Message to Man
  • 1968
    Chiefs

    Chiefs (1968)

    Chiefs

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    Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch demonstrations of gruesome anti-riot weapons, sing patriotic songs, and defend their policies in front of...

    Chiefs
  • 1962
    Nehru

    Nehru (1962)

    Nehru

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    The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru....

    Nehru
  • 1957
    American Football

    American Football (1957)

    American Football

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    A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an early experiment by Drew and his Associates to capture real life happening in front of the cameras. They ha...

    American Football
  • 1968
    RainForest

    RainForest (1968)

    RainForest

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    Leacock and Pennebaker filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance “RainForest” as part of the 1968 Buffalo Arts Festival’s program “Whose Afraid of the Avant-Garde” presenting experimental art, music, dance, poetry and theater. The dance composit...

    RainForest
  • 1981
    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House (1981)

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

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    Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and shipped to Boston Children's Museum. This first-hand observation of traditional tools and woodworking te...

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House
  • 1968
    French Lunch

    French Lunch (1968)

    French Lunch

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    Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City....

    French Lunch