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Cinema Eye Honors Recognizes 5 Broken Cameras, Bully, Detropia and The War Room

Kristin McCracken | Posted 03.24.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: American Museum of the Moving Image, Awards Season, Chris Hegedus, Documentary Filmmaking, Bully, Awards, D.A. Pennebaker, Detropia, Cinema Eye Honors 2013, Cinema Eye Honors, Entertainment News
Kristin McCracken

With only two categories rewarding documentary filmmaking at the annual Academy Awards, the nonfiction film community realized it had a void to fill in recognizing the outstanding work in their field.

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D.A. Pennebaker Gets an Oscar, Talks About Vermeer

Allan M. Jalon | Posted 02.03.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Chris Hegedus, Da Pennybaker, Da Pennebaker Oscar, Da Pennebaker Documentary, Da Pennebaker Films, Da Pennebaker Lifetime Achievement Award, Da Pennebaker, D.A. Pennebaker, Donn Alan Pennebaker, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Documentary Films, Entertainment News
Allan M. Jalon

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The First Awards Of Oscar Season

AP | SANDY COHEN | Posted 02.01.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Fyc, Hal Needham, The Oscars, D.A. Pennebaker, Governors Awards 2012, Governors Award, Video, Oscars Governors Awards, Oscars, Governors Awards, The Oscars 2013, Jeffrey Katzenberg, George Stevens, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — Tom Hanks. Quincy Jones. Kristen Stewart. Warren Beatty. Quentin Tarantino. George Lucas. Steven Spielberg. Kirk Douglas. Amy Adam...

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First Oscars Of The Season Get Awarded

AP | Posted 11.17.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Gold Rush 2012, Fyc, Video, Oscars 2013, Honorary Oscars 2013, Hal Needham, Academy Awards 2013, 85th Annual Academy Awards, Honorary Academy Awards, Jeffrey Katzenberg, D.A. Pennebaker, Honorary Oscars, George Stevens, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES -- The first Oscars of the season have been awarded. The film academy's board of governors voted Wednesday to present honorary Academy Aw...

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If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother: At the Athena Awards

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Diablo Cody, Caroline Hirsch, Nekisa Cooper, Lorene Scafaria, Laura Ziskind, Theresa Rebeck, Julia Barry, Rachael Horovitz, Lizz Winstead, Geoffrey Fletcher, D.A. Pennebaker, Kathryn Kolbert, Katie Couric, Melissa Silverstein, Julie Taymor, Liz Meriwether, Jeffrey Toobin, Athena Awards, Athena Awards 2012, Home News
Regina Weinreich

Recipients are asked to adhere to only one caveat: they must speak about a woman who has influenced or inspired them, not their mother. An act of rebellion, this rule was immediately violated.

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'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Revisiting the Monterey International Pop Festival Through A Perfect Haze

Holly Cara Price | Posted 02.19.2012 | Books
Read More: Bob Weir, Rock Festivals, Santa Monica Press, Kenneth Kubernik, Monterey International Pop Festival, Alex Gibney, Lou Adler, Zeitgeist, Magic Trip, Roger Daltrey, New Books, Ravi Shankar, Al Kooper, Pop Culture, D.A. Pennebaker, Otis Redding, Pete Townshend, Big Brother & the Holding Company, The Who, Woodstock, Altamont, Booker T. Jones, Harvey Kubernik, Books News, Book Publishing, Alison Ellwood, Ken Kesey, Simon & Garfunkel, Hippies, Music News, Counterculture, Steve Cropper, 1967, Sixties, Monterey Pop, Merry Pranksters, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Books News
Holly Cara Price

The Monterey International Pop Festival took place at such a guileless time that the promoters used the word "pop" in its title. Not long after this would have been unthinkable, after the lines were drawn between "pop" music and rock and roll.

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"Screw the Tripod!" Remebering Ricky Leacock (1921 - 2011)

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.26.2011 | Media
Read More: Documentary Filmmaking, Albert Maysles, Cinema Verite, Charlotte Zwerin, Bill Lichtenstein, Documentary, Documentary Film, Documentaries, D.A. Pennebaker, Ricky-Leacock, Richard Leacock, Leacock, Media News
Bill Lichtenstein

It's rare to work in an established art form where you can work with and be influenced by those who invented the genre. Not so for documentary filmm...

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Jack Goes Boating and Kings of Pastry: What Can Go Wrong in the Kitchen

Regina Weinreich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Kings of Pastry, Jack Goes Boating, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

If you are a cook, there is a nail-biting sequence in the new movie, Jack Goes Boating, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman under his own direction, adapt...

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How Sweet It Is: Kings of Pastry

Kristin McCracken | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Competition, Mof, Kings of Pastry, Chris Hegedus, Tribeca Film, Documentary, French, Lyon, Pastry Chefs, D.A. Pennebaker, Jacquy Pfeiffer, Pastry, Baking, Food, Home News
Kristin McCracken

It may not sound like your typical thriller: a labor of love documentary about 16 pastry chefs who have risen to the top of their field, invited to compete against themselves.

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Finally -- Locavore Candy at the Farmers Market

Flora Lazar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: French Pastry, Candy, Kings of Pastry, Chris Hegedus, Fruit, Local Food, Sustainable Food, Chocolate, Green City Market, Green Market, French Food, D.A. Pennebaker, Locavores, Local Farmers, Style News
Flora Lazar

What does a French-inspired chocolatier make for a tightly-regulated farmers market such as Chicago's Green City Market without chocolate, hazelnuts, and almonds?

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What Do Bob Dylan, Bill Clinton, and French Cream Puffs Have in Common?

Flora Lazar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Cinema Verite, Chris Hegedus, Culinary Education, Jean-Philippe Maury, Meilleurs Ouvriers De France, Vocational Education, D.A. Pennebaker, The Collar, French Pastry, Flashpoint Academy, Jacques Torres, Chicago Education, French Pastry School, Jacquy Pfeiffer, Pennebaker Hegedus Films, Sebastien Canonne, Bill Clinton, Bob Dylan, Don't Look Back, Nicolas Sarkozy, Cream Puffs, Artisanal, Artisan, Food, Chicago News
Flora Lazar

Legendary filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus were at Flashpoint Academy this week for a screening of a new film they're making about the coveted "Meilleurs Ouvriers de France."

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