D. A. Pennebaker is an acclaimed documentary filmmaker and one of the
American pioneers of Direct Cinema/Cinéma vérité. His films have
documented the cultural and political currents since the early
1960s. Among his most celebrated films are Monterey Pop, Don't
Look Back, The War Room
and Al Franken: God Spoke.

Blog Entries by D.A. Pennebaker

Mods And Rockers Festival: Inside Pennebaker's Soul

Posted July 21, 2007 | 01:13 PM (EST)


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This weekend the Mods & Rockers Film Festival - presents a five-film salute to soul music and the 50th anniversary of Stax Records. The opening event is a special screening of "Only The Strong Survive" made by filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker...

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Mods And Rockers Festival: Pennebaker on "Pop"

Posted July 17, 2007 | 11:25 AM (EST)


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Pioneering documentary maker D.A. Pennebaker is being saluted in-person with a three-day retrospective at the Mods & Rockers Film Festival in L.A. - including screenings of "Monterey Pop" (his film of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival), his two Dylan documentaries (the...

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