A dark cultural day darkens still with the news that Richard Leacock, the prolific filmmaker who, with fellow directors D.A. Pennebaker, Robert Drew and the Maysles Brothers helped pioneer the nonfiction format known as “direct cinema,” has died at 89 . A sampling of his influential work — and a few valuable life lessons for the up-and-comers out there — after the jump.
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VIDEO: The Life Lessons of Doc Legend Richard Leacock, Dead at 89
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Judged on a curve, set by the testosterone-fueled raunch-a-thons that have dominated teen comedies from American Pie to Superbad and beyond, Easy A deserves an A+, with extra credit for lack of misogyny, cock talk, or flatulence. But curves or concessions aren’t necessary. Not when the film exhibits this much wit and intelligence, and not with Emma Stone casually owning the screen and turning this buoyant lark into a star-making vehicle of Pretty Woman proportions.
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REVIEW: Emma Stone Scores a 4.0 in Easy A
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Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline’s spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about Kings of Pastry, which opens this week in New York. The husband-wife filmmaking team of DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus have been on hand to witness more than a few historic dramas over the years, perhaps none more famous than that of the charismatic Clinton campaign engineers profiled in their Oscar-nominated 1993 documentary The War Room . Scale that intensity and those stakes down to one guy in a kitchen, however, and you wind up with something like their new film Kings of Pastry , about chef Jacquy Pfeiffer’s pursuit of one of France’s most hallowed culinary distinctions: that of M.O.F., or Best Craftsman in France.
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Moment of Truth: DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus Talk Kings of Pastry
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