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Author Topic: Ricky Leacock Dead Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-24-2011 09:33 PM                        http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/arts/richard-leacock-innovative-documentary-maker-dies-at-89.html Richard Leacock, Innovative Documentary Maker, Dies at 89 By WILLIAM GRIMES Published: March 24, 2011 Richard Leacock, a filmmaker who helped create the documentary style known as direct camera or cinéma vérité, and who played a pivotal role in making some of the most innovative documentaries of the 1960s, died on Wednesday at his home in Paris. He was 89. His death was confirmed by his daughter Victoria Leacock Hoffman. Although overshadowed by colleagues like Albert and David Maysles and D. A. Pennebaker, Mr. Leacock was a seminal figure in developing the artistic theories and the small, lightweight camera and sound equipment that led to a new style of reportorial filmmaking, one that had a profound influence not just on nonfiction filmmakers but also on directors, like John Cassavetes, who were seeking a more immediate, spontaneous style.  |  IP: Logged Lionel Fouillen Expert Film Handler Posts: 230 From: Belgium Registered: Nov 2002 posted 03-24-2011 10:49 PM                     Also known as the inventor of Super8 as far as I remember.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2011 03:40 AM                        Very sad news. In addition to his other work, he directed what is probably my all-time favorite educational film: Frames of Reference. I'll have to dig out my 16mm print of this over the weekend....  |  IP: Logged Martin McCaffery Film God Posts: 2481 From: Montgomery, AL Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-25-2011 09:53 AM                        He, and the other founders of Cinema Verité, can also be unfairly blamed for the plague of shaky cam. These guys, of course, knew how to hold their cameras, but nonetheless shaky cam is a nod to verité.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 03-25-2011 11:36 AM                        They also knew how to use it judiciously as a tool and with restraint....today restraint is a word hardly anyone knows or understands. I ran MONTEREY POP at least 3 times over the past years, always in 4rk mag. Great film....great filmmakers.  |  IP: Logged

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