Movies: Richard Leacock

  • 1957
    American Football

    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...

    American Football
  • 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
  • 2012
    Ricky on Leacock

    Ricky on Leacock (2012)

    Ricky on Leacock

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    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, Je...

    Ricky on Leacock
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka (1975)

    Solstice and Solyanka

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    Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of appearance, are Robert Breer, John Terry, Steve Ascher, Richard Leacock, Jon Rubin, Frank Daniel, Ed Emshwi...

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1959
    A Magnet Laboratory

    A Magnet Laboratory (1959)

    A Magnet Laboratory

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    In the hands of another director, the inner-workings of a magnet laboratory could have caused a whole classroom to fall asleep of boredom. No so when Leacock was hired to produce this twenty-minute version of lab mayhem. Try this: six researchers in ...

    A Magnet Laboratory
  • 1971
    Maidstone

    Maidstone (1971)

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    Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and a...

    Maidstone
  • 2000
    The Last Documentary

    The Last Documentary (2000)

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    Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel....

    The Last Documentary
  • 1987
    Shake! Otis at Monterey

    Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987)

    Shake! Otis at Monterey

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    Renowned documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker captures Otis Redding in his ascendancy, singing at the historic Monterey International Pop Festival in June 1967. Comedian Tom Smothers introduces Redding to a crowd that is leaving -- until Redding gra...

    Shake! Otis at Monterey
  • 1963
    The Chair

    The Chair (1963)

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    Follows a crusading lawyer as he embarks on a campaign to save an African-American man, Paul Crump, from the electric chair. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 2007....

    The Chair
  • 1991
    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock (1991)

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

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    Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful, important film about nothing in particular, a love song dedicated to France, French women in general and one ...

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock
  • 1965
    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary (1965)

    Elizabeth and Mary

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    A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped...

    Elizabeth and Mary
  • 2023
    Monica in the South Seas

    Monica in the South Seas (2023)

    Monica in the South Seas

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    Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty, and seemingly the sole member of the family with a hands-on interest in continuing the directing legacy. Among the materials he found in the estat...

    Monica in the South Seas
  • 1992
    Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music

    Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music (1992)

    Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music

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    A pioneer in the world of rock-'n'-roll guitar, Chuck Berry has created a legacy that spans decades. Berry performs some of his greatest hits and all-time favorites in this concert video that was filmed on September 13, 1969 at 'Toronto Rock'n'Roll R...

    Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music
  • 1962
    Mooney vs. Fowle

    Mooney vs. Fowle (1962)

    Mooney vs. Fowle

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    The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High against their rivals from Edison High. The title refers to the coaches of each, and the film follows t...

    Mooney vs. Fowle
  • 1954
    Jazz Dance

    Jazz Dance (1954)

    Jazz Dance

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    Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a Manhattan dance club from idle space to explosive, carnal bacchanal. Employing handheld cameras, limited lig...

    Jazz Dance
  • 2011
    BodySongs

    BodySongs (2011)

    BodySongs

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    The classical nude as video in four male/female duets...

    BodySongs