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Oscar Winning Music Documentary Maker DA Pennebaker has died

jackbarron

Chelsea, London
The documentary film-maker DA Pennebaker has passed away from natural causes at the age of 94. Lauded as a poet with a camera, he directed Bob Dylan's Don't Look Back, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Monterey Pop. https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...OtfxgUWclZefex7rh-k-1_SHNqyqIpYhpjpfjIo6PZ4p0

"Perhaps his most famous film is Dont Look Back (sic), released in 1967, which depicts Bob Dylan’s last acoustic concert tour of the UK in 1965. It broke box-office records at the time, and is considered a benchmark in rock documentary.

"The concert film Monterey Pop was a record of the 1967 Monterey International Pop festival that launched the careers of Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, while Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars captured on film the night in July 1973 that David Bowie “killed off” his alien alter ego.

"Pennebaker received a lifetime achievement award Oscar in 2013 – the first documentary-maker to do so."

Oddly enough I downloaded Eat The Document yesterday.

RIP Mr Pennebaker.

Jack
 


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