Movies: Richard Leacock
- 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
French Lunch (1968)
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Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City....
- 2012
Ricky on Leacock (2012)
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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...
- 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....
- 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
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...
- 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 ...
- 1975
Solstice and Solyanka (1975)
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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...
- 1959
A Magnet Laboratory (1959)
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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 ...
- 1971
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...
- 2000
The Last Documentary (2000)
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Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel....
- 1987
Shake! Otis at Monterey (1987)
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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...
- 1963
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....
- 1991
Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock (1991)
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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 ...
- 1965
Elizabeth and Mary (1965)
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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...
- 2023
Monica in the South Seas (2023)
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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...
- 1992
Chuck Berry: Rock and Roll Music (1992)
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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...
- 1962
Mooney vs. Fowle (1962)
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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...
- 1954
Jazz Dance (1954)
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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...
- 2011
BodySongs (2011)
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The classical nude as video in four male/female duets...