Format:
2 DVD-Video (53 min + 52 min + 52 min + 12 min)
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schwarz-weiß
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1 Beiheft (26 ungezählte Seiten)
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12 cm
ISBN:
9781681431376
Series Statement:
The Criterion collection 808
Content:
"Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties. He did this by assembling an amazing team—including such eventual nonfiction luminaries as Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles—that would transform documentary cinema. In 1960, the group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. [...]" [criterion.com]
Note:
two-DVD special edition features: new 2K digital restorations of all four films ; alternate, twenty-six-minute cut of Primary, edited by filmmaker Richard Leacock ; audio commentary on Primary, featuring excerpts from a 1961 conversation between Leacock, filmmakers Robert Drew and D. A. Pennebaker, and film critic Gideon Bachmann ; Robert Drew in His Own Words, a new documentary featuring archival interview footage ; new conversation between Pennebaker and Jill Drew, general manager of Drew Associates and Robert Drew’s daughter-in-law ; outtakes from Crisis, along with a discussion by historian Andrew Cohen, author of Two days in june ; new conversation about Crisis featuring former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder and Sharon Malone, Holder’s wife and the sister of Vivian Malone, one of the students featured in Crisis ; new interview with Richard Reeves, author of President Kennedy: profile of power ; footage from a 1998 event at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, featuring Drew, Pennebaker, Leacock, and filmmaker Albert Maysles ; plus: an essay by documentary film curator and writer Thomas Powers
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Original: USA 1960-1964
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Bildformat 1.33:1
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Englisch
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Drew, Robert 1924-2014
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Humphrey, Hubert H. 1911-1978
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Wallace, George C. 1919-1998
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Kennedy, Robert F. 1925-1968
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Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963
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Dokumentarfilm
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Film
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Biografie
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DVD-Video
Author information:
Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963
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