Richard Leacock Movies

  • 2012
    Ricky on Leacock

    Ricky on Leacock

    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...

    Ricky on Leacock
  • 1977
    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    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...

    Centerbeam
  • 1962
    Mooney vs. Fowle

    Mooney vs. Fowle

    Mooney vs. Fowle

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    The doc brings us back to a 1961 football game played in front of 40,000 people at the Orange Bowl. A high school football game, pitting Miami High...

    Mooney vs. Fowle
  • 1954
    Toby and the Tall Corn

    Toby and the Tall Corn

    Toby and the Tall Corn

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    Toby is a heartwarming and entertaining portrait of one of the last travelling variety shows in the United States. Every summer, Toby, the troupe's...

    Toby and the Tall Corn
  • 2000
    The Last Documentary

    The Last Documentary

    The Last Documentary

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    Documentary by Jan Sebening and Daniel Sponsel.

    The Last Documentary
  • 1989
    Message to Man

    Message to Man

    Message to Man

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    In January 1989 the first Message to Man International Film Festival took place in Leningrad. This film, made during the festival, is a record of its...

    Message to Man
  • 1961
    The Children Were Watching

    The Children Were Watching

    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.

    The Children Were Watching
  • 1964
    Campaign Manager

    Campaign Manager

    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...

    Campaign Manager
  • 1965
    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire

    01965HD

    A documentary on the KKK

    Ku Klux Klan—The Invisible Empire
  • 1968
    RainForest

    RainForest

    RainForest

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    Leacock and Pennebaker filmed choreographer Merce Cunningham’s dance “RainForest” as part of the 1968 Buffalo Arts Festival’s...

    RainForest
  • 1970
    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

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    In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth...

    Queen of Apollo
  • 1968
    French Lunch

    French Lunch

    French Lunch

    01968HD

    Documentary look behind the scenes of La Caravelle, an acclaimed French restaurant in New York City.

    French Lunch
  • 1957
    American Football

    American Football

    American Football

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    A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an...

    American Football
  • 1965
    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary

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    A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped

    Elizabeth and Mary
  • 2011
    BodySongs

    BodySongs

    BodySongs

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    The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

    BodySongs
  • 2011
    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales

    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales

    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales

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    Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales
  • 2008
    Morris Engel: The Independent

    Morris Engel: The Independent

    Morris Engel: The Independent

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    Short documentary on the life and work of photographer and filmmaker Morris Engel

    Morris Engel: The Independent
  • 1962
    Nehru

    Nehru

    Nehru

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    The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

    Nehru
  • 1981
    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

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    Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House
  • 1980
    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan

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    This 23-minute, 16mm color film by Nancy V. Raine (Producer/Co-Director) and Richard Leacock (Co-Director/Cinematographer) is a poetic, lyrical,...

    Light Coming Through: A Portrait of Maud Morgan