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Donn Alan Pennebaker ( / ˈpɛniːbeɪkər /; July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subjects.
D.A. Pennebaker was a director and cinematographer known for his documentaries on music, politics and culture. He died in 2019 at the age of 94. See his credits, photos, videos and trivia on IMDb.
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Aug 3, 2019 · D. A. Pennebaker, the groundbreaking documentary filmmaker best known for capturing pivotal moments in the history of rock music and politics, including Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England and Bill...
Aug 5, 2019 · Groundbreaking film-maker DA Pennebaker, who captured pivotal moments in the history of rock music and politics, has died aged 94. He was best known for the Bob Dylan documentary Don't Look...
- Primary (1960) Departing from Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s cinéma vérité technique by eschewing narration and interviews to tell its story solely through action, this groundbreaking account of the 1960 Wisconsin primary battle between Democratic candidates John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey was very much a team effort, involving Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Terence Macartney-Filgate and D.A.
- Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1967) Following the jazz profile Lambert & Co. (1964), Pennebaker was invited to produce a behind-the-scenes account of Bob Dylan’s 1965 UK tour.
- Monterey Pop (1968) Pennebaker always acknowledged there was a lot of luck involved in documentary making, and this record of the 1967 Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a case in point, as he dispatched camera operators like Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles around the arena in the hope they would strike 16mm gold.
- The War Room (1993) Almost as if he had remembered the forensic nature of his camerawork inside Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy’s inner sanctum in Robert Drew’s Crisis (1963), Democratic hopeful Bill Clinton opted to keep Pennebaker at a distance in this chronicle of his 1992 presidential run-off against incumbent George H.W.
Aug 3, 2019 · D.A. Pennebaker, a director and cinematographer known for his documentaries, including the classic “Dont Look Back” (1967), “Monterey Pop” (1968) and “The War Room” (1993) and “Elaine Stritch...
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Aug 4, 2019 · D.A. Pennebaker, a pioneering filmmaker who chronicled key moments in music as well as politics, has died at age 94. Pennebaker helped create the cinéma vérité, or direct cinema style of ...
