#808: DREW, Robert: The Kennedy Films Of Robert Drew & Associates (Various)
DREW, Robert (United States)
The Kennedy Films Of Robert Drew & Associates [Various]
Spine #808
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Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he found to be rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought to filmmaking the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent in the late 1950s. 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 presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, filming him first on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three feature 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, which are early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema and feature the greatest close-up footage we have of this American icon.
Primary
53 minutes
Adventures On The New Frontier
52 minutes
Crisis
52 minutes
Faces Of November
12 minutes
Black & White
Monaural
1:33:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2016
Director
Robert Drew
The Films
The Films
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The Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by documentary film curator and writer Thom Powers.
Commentary
On Primary, featuring excerpts from a 1961 conversation between filmmaker Richard Leacock, Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, and film critic Gideon Bachmann.
Robert Drew in His Own Words
A documentary featuring archival interview footage.
Conversation 1
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.
Conversation 2
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.
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.
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The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-eight page booklet featuring an essay by documentary film curator and writer Thom Powers.
Commentary
On Primary, featuring excerpts from a 1961 conversation between filmmaker Richard Leacock, Drew and D.A. Pennebaker, and film critic Gideon Bachmann.
Robert Drew in His Own Words
A documentary featuring archival interview footage.
Conversation 1
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.
Conversation 2
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.
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.
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