Richard Leacock Movies
- 1971

Maidstone
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Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the...
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- 1954

Jazz Dance
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Few films wield the awesome spiritual power of Jazz Dance, on which Leacock was one of two cameramen charting the slow, smoldering build of a...
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- 1991

Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock
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Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful,...
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- 1947

To Hear Your Banjo Play
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A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
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- 1935

Canary Island Bananas
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Filmed on his father's plantation, Leacock’s sophisticated use of pans and tilts described the process of planting, harvesting, and shipping...
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- 1964

Campaign Manager
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This brief portrait follows 28-year-old campaign manager John Grenier as he maps out strategies for Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential run and...
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- 1961

The Children Were Watching
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A harrowing portrait of the struggle for school desegregation in New Orleans against the violent protests of white parents.
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- 2008

A President to Remember: In the Company of John F. Kennedy
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Bringing to life an American President who was widely respected by his countrymen and celebrated around the world. Composed from four break through...
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- 1975

Solstice and Solyanka
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Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...
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- 1992

Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
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An intimate window into one of the great movements in film history that brought about an evolution in the art of cinema. The documentary portrays the...
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- 2011

BodySongs
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The classical nude as video in four male/female duets
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- 1987

Jimi Plays Monterey
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Jimi Hendrix's debut American set at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival is generally considered one of the most radical and legendary live shows ever....
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- 1977

Centerbeam
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Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...
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- 2000

The Last Documentary
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Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.
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- 1987

Working Girls
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A lesbian college graduate, trying to bankroll her own photography business, works as a high-priced New York City escort.
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- 1983

Community of Praise
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This documentary examines one family's desperate search for faith and religious meaning in Muncie, Indiana.
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- 2012

Ricky on Leacock
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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...
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- 1968

Chiefs
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Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch...
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- 1984

Lulu in Berlin
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Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....
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- 1960

Yanki No!
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After the US forces Cuba out of the OAS, demonstrations erupt in Venezuela. In Cuba Castro addresses a rally of one million people.
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