Dick Fontaine

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Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
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Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

Sep 12, 1970

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970 58 min 1 vues
One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or other that runs, mercifully, for 58 minutes and comes from an English group of movie folk called the Tattooists. The second visitor to the animal abattoir is a pretty girl. The third is a porky, middle-aged man addicted to the expression, "Ya know?" The two men carry on a running argument about whether they should make a picture about pigs. "Are we making a movie, ya know?" says Fatso. "Where is it, ya know?" Then a bit later: "I'm making a movie about pigs, ya know?"
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The Sun
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The Sun

Sep 15, 1964

The Sun
1964 30 min 1 vues
The end of the 'Daily Herald' and the beginning of a new daily paper, 'The Sun'. Also a portrait of its first editor, Hugh Cudlipp.
Documentary
The Sun
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The Sun

Sep 15, 1964

The Sun
1964 30 min 1 vues
The end of the 'Daily Herald' and the beginning of a new daily paper, 'The Sun'. Also a portrait of its first editor, Hugh Cudlipp.
Documentary
Sound??
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Sound??

Feb 09, 1966

Sound??
1966 25 min 3 vues
Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music.
David, Moffett, and Ornette: The Ornette Coleman Trio
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David, Moffett, and Ornette: The Ornette Coleman Trio

Jan 01, 1966

David, Moffett, and Ornette: The Ornette Coleman Trio
1966 26 min 2 vues
In Paris in the spring of 1966, Ornette Coleman, controversial Free Jazz composer, wrote and recorded the soundtrack for a Living Theatre project, a film entitled Who's crazy? This documentary short is a record of the two days Ornette spent in the studio making music with collaborators, virtuoso bass player David Izenson (formerly of the NBC Symphony Orchestra) and drummer Charles Moffett. Ornette plays alto, violin, trumpet and piano and introduces his haunting ballad "Sadness." When not performing, the artists discuss the precariousness of the musical life, the price of artistic freedom and personal fulfillment, and in the cases of Ornette and Moffett, the pain of discrimination.
Documentary
Beat This!: A Hip Hop History
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Beat This!: A Hip Hop History

Jan 05, 1984

Beat This!: A Hip Hop History
1984 137 min 1 vues
Beat This: A Hip-Hop History is a 1984 BBC documentary film about hip-hop culture, directed by Dick Fontaine. The cast includes Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Kool Herc — the film includes footage from Herc's original dance parties — The Cold Crush Brothers, Jazzy Jay, Brim Fuentes, and The Dynamic Rockers. It is narrated by Imhotep Gary Byrd. Originally part of the Arena television series, it was among the first crop of documentaries about hip-hop.
Documentary
Who Is Sonny Rollins?
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Who Is Sonny Rollins?

Jan 01, 1968

Who Is Sonny Rollins?
1968 28 min 1 vues
Portrait of the jazz great during his self-enforced exile from his audience as protest against the war in Vietnam. Filmed playing with students in Harlem, in the countryside, and on the Williamsburg Bridge, Rollins' melodic sense throughout the film is as probing as soulful as ever.
Documentary
Heroes
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Heroes

Jan 01, 1967

Heroes
1967 30 min 1 vues
A satire on celebrity with a cacophony of gossip merchants, publicists, and “a host of stars.”
Documentary
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Mar 03, 1982

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 92 min 1 vues
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.
Documentary
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

Sep 12, 1970

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970 58 min 1 vues
One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or other that runs, mercifully, for 58 minutes and comes from an English group of movie folk called the Tattooists. The second visitor to the animal abattoir is a pretty girl. The third is a porky, middle-aged man addicted to the expression, "Ya know?" The two men carry on a running argument about whether they should make a picture about pigs. "Are we making a movie, ya know?" says Fatso. "Where is it, ya know?" Then a bit later: "I'm making a movie about pigs, ya know?"
Music
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising

Sep 12, 1970

Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising
1970 58 min 1 vues
One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or other that runs, mercifully, for 58 minutes and comes from an English group of movie folk called the Tattooists. The second visitor to the animal abattoir is a pretty girl. The third is a porky, middle-aged man addicted to the expression, "Ya know?" The two men carry on a running argument about whether they should make a picture about pigs. "Are we making a movie, ya know?" says Fatso. "Where is it, ya know?" Then a bit later: "I'm making a movie about pigs, ya know?"
Music
Who Is Sonny Rollins?
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Who Is Sonny Rollins?

Jan 01, 1968

Who Is Sonny Rollins?
1968 28 min 1 vues
Portrait of the jazz great during his self-enforced exile from his audience as protest against the war in Vietnam. Filmed playing with students in Harlem, in the countryside, and on the Williamsburg Bridge, Rollins' melodic sense throughout the film is as probing as soulful as ever.
Documentary
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Mar 03, 1982

I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982 92 min 1 vues
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades. From Selma and Birmingham and Atlanta; to the battleground beaches of St. Augustine, Florida, with Chinua Achebe; and back north for a visit to Newark with Amiri Baraka, Baldwin lays bare the fiction of progress in post–Civil Rights America, wondering “what happened to the children” and those 'who did not die, but whose lives were smashed on Freedom Road'.
Documentary
Death of a Revolutionary
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Death of a Revolutionary

Jan 01, 1972

Death of a Revolutionary
1972 30 min 1 vues
Report on the death in San Quentin prison, California, on 21 August 1971 of six men including black militant, George Jackson, whose funeral was an occasion for oration by Black Panther leaders including Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton.
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
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Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger

Jan 01, 1988

Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
1988 78 min 1 vues
A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and a surprising new generation of musicians and dancers.
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Oct 12, 1998
1998 min 1 vues
World in Action was a British investigative current affairs programme made by Granada Television from 1963 until 1998. Its campaigning journalism frequently had a major impact on events of the day. Its production teams often took audacious risks and gained a solid reputation for its often unorthodox, some said left-wing, approach. Cabinet ministers fell victim to its probings. Numerous innocent victims of the British criminal justice system, including the Birmingham Six, were released from jail. Honouring the programme in its fiftieth anniversary awards, the Political Studies Association, said: "World in Action thrived on unveiling corruption and highlighting underhand dealings. World in Action came to be seen as hard-hitting investigative journalism at its best." In its heyday World in Action drew audiences of up to 23 million in Britain alone, equivalent to almost half the population.
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