The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & associates.

Material type: Film

FilmSeries: Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]Description: 2 videodiscs (170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

9781681431376 :
1681431378

Other title:

Kennedy films of Robert Drew and associate

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Contents:

Primary (53 minutes) (1960) -- Adventures on the new frontier (52 minutes) (1961) -- Crisis (53 minutes) (1963) -- Faces of November (12 minutes) (1964).

Production credits:

Director, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker.

Summary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
DVD	Phillipsburg Free Public Library	DVDs	New Movies	DVD 973.922 KEN	Available		36748002484832

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In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy: Primary; Adventures on the New Frontier; and Crisis; and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema.

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Fullscreen (1.33:1).

Special features: Alternate, twenty-six-minutes cut of "Primary", edited by filmmaker Richard Leacock; Audio commentary on the Leacock edit of "Primary", featuring Leacock and filmmakers Robert Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, recorded in conversation with film critic Gideon Bachmann in 1961; Robert Drew in his own words, a new documentary featuring archival interview footage; Nw conversation between Pennebaker and Jill Drew, Robert Drew's daughter-in-law and the general manager of Drew Associates; Outtakes from "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 featuring 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.

Primary (53 minutes) (1960) -- Adventures on the new frontier (52 minutes) (1961) -- Crisis (53 minutes) (1963) -- Faces of November (12 minutes) (1964).

Director, Robert Drew, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, D.A. Pennebaker.

In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema.

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Library Journal Review

Filmed in a style later called Direct Cinema, which works with lightweight portable cameras, these four films about John F. Kennedy, produced by Drew and associates, provide a direct and intimate examination of the president and members of his family and administration. Primary covers the 1960 Wisconsin primary and the contest between Kennedy and Sen. Hubert Humphrey. The original full-length film and a shorter version edited by Richard Leacock are included. Adventures on the New Frontier gives viewers a look at the day-to-day workings of the Kennedy White House. Crisis reveals the standoff between Kennedy and Gov. George Wallace over the integration of the University of Alabama. Attorney General Robert Kennedy serves as the film's focal point. Without use of dialog, Faces of November reports the funeral of the slain president and public reaction. A bonus is the documentary Robert Drew in His Own Words. VERDICT This important and timely series is must-see viewing for individuals with an interest in politics. [See Trailers, LJ 3/1/16.]-Stephen L. Hupp, West Virginia Univ. Parkersburg Lib. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.