D. A. Pennebaker

D. A. Pennebaker

Born: July 15, 1925
Died: August 1, 2019
in Evanston, Illinois, USA
Donn Alan Pennebaker (July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker.

Movies for D. A. Pennebaker...

Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Title: Tiny Tim: King for a Day
Character: Himself
Released: August 20, 2020
Type: Movie
The story of Tiny Tim’s improbable rise to stardom is the ultimate fairytale - and so is that of his downfall. For a brief time, the shy and truly unusual outsider artist was the biggest star in the world.
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Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
Title: Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker
Character: Himself
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: Movie
A conversation between Jill Drew and D.A. Pennebaker.
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Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
Title: Robert Drew & Associates at the Museum of Tolerance
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 2016
Type: Movie
In 1998, documentary filmmaker Robert Drew and his associates attend the Museum of Tolerance.
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Janis: Little Girl Blue
Title: Janis: Little Girl Blue
Character: Himself
Released: September 9, 2015
Type: Movie
Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
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A Venue For The End Of The World
Title: A Venue For The End Of The World
Character: Himself
Released: September 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern entertainers, a filmmaker investigates the dangers of audience manipulation and leader worship.
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Ricky on Leacock
Title: Ricky on Leacock
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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, Jean-Luc Godard, DA Pennebaker, Robert Drew, and others. Mixing her own footage with film clips and rare images from Leacock's personal film archives, this film pays homage to the director's mentor and, most importantly, allows him to tell us the story of his long film making career in his own words.
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Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales
Title: Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts. With testimonies from Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Edgar Morin, D.A. Pennebaker and others.
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Godard Made in USA
Title: Godard Made in USA
Character: Self
Released: December 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Documentary by Luc Lagier exploring Godard's career as a filmmaker, the production of Breathless and his influence and his relationship with American cinema.
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Morris Engel: The Independent
Title: Morris Engel: The Independent
Character: Self
Released: May 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Title: No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Character: Self
Released: July 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
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World Tour 1966: The Home Movies
Title: World Tour 1966: The Home Movies
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
With a set of drums and an 8mm color home movie camera, Mickey Jones toured the world in 1966 with Bob Dylan and The Band. He captured on film what became known as "The tour that changed Rock and Roll forever." The booing crowds, the scathing reviews, the stomping feet, the infamous catcall of "Judas!" ... all of this in response to Dylan trading in his acoustic folk guitar for an electric sound. Now, for the first time, drummer-turned-actor Mickey Jones (Sling Blade, Home Improvement), with the help of Director Joel Gilbert, chronicles the legendary 1966 Bob Dylan World Tour through his recently discovered home movies. The updated release includes new, exclusive full-length interviews with Charlie Daniels, Johnny Rivers, 1966 World Tour and Gaslight tapes sound man Richard Alderson, and new insights and revelations by Mickey Jones.
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Title: The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
Character: Self
Released: August 16, 2000
Type: Movie
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage. Born in 1932 in Brooklyn, busking through the South and West in the early 50s, a year with Woody Guthrie, six years flatpicking in Europe, a triumphant return to Greenwich Village in the early 60s, mentoring Bob Dylan, then life on the road, from gig to gig, singing and telling stories. A Grammy and the National Medal of Arts await Jack near the end of a long trail. What will Aiyana find for herself?
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Title: Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Character: Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
Released: October 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
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Up Your Legs Forever
Title: Up Your Legs Forever
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
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Wild 90
Title: Wild 90
Character: Al
Released: January 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.