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Title:
The Kennedy films of Robert Drew & Associates [DVD video] : Primary
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Edition:
DVD edition.
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
[New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (approximately 170 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 unnumbered pages, black and white portraits, 19 cm)
ISBN:
9781681431376
Abstract:
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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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.
Performers:
Primary and Adventures on the New Frontier narrated by Joseph Julian; Crisis narrated by James Lipscomb.
Contents:
Primary (53 minutes) (1960) -- Adventures on the new frontier (52 minutes) (1961) -- Crisis (53 minutes) (1963) -- Faces of November (12 minutes) (1964).
Technical Details:
DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen; mono sound.
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Language:
English
Additional Language:
English audio; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH)
Added Uniform Title:
Container of (work): Primary.
Container of (work): Adventures on the new frontier.
Container of (work): Crisis.
Container of (work): Faces of November.
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