Movies: Richard Leacock
- 1948
Louisiana Story (1948)
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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....
- 2014
How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy (2014)
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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...
- 1992
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992)
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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...
- 1958
Brussels Loops (1958)
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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...
- 1999
Flora Natapoff - An American Painter (1999)
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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...
- 1962
Jane (1962)
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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....
- 1935
Canary Island Bananas (1935)
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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...
- 1967
A Stravinsky Portrait (1967)
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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...
- 1960
Primary (1960)
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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...
- 1960
Christopher and Me (1960)
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Twins Christopher and David gets into an untethered sailboat and inadvertently gets involved in a nearby sailboat race....
- 2008
Morris Engel: The Independent (2008)
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Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel...
- 1987
Jimi Plays Monterey (1987)
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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 ...
- 1970
Queen of Apollo (1970)
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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 ...
- 1989
Message to Man (1989)
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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...
- 1968
Chiefs (1968)
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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...
- 1962
Nehru (1962)
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The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru....
- 1957
American Football (1957)
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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...
- 1968
RainForest (1968)
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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...
- 1981
Rebuilding an Old Japanese House (1981)
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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...
- 1968
French Lunch (1968)
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Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City....