KENNEDY FILMS OF ROBERT DREW & ASSOCIATES, THE [BLU-RAY]

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• Genre: Documentary
• Plot: Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he found to be rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought to filmmaking the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent in the late 1950s. He did this by assembling an amazing team—including such eventual nonfiction luminaries as Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, and Albert Maysles—that would transform documentary cinema. In 1960, the group was granted direct access to presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, filming him first on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three feature films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy—Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis—and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles, which are early exemplars of the movement known as Direct Cinema and feature the greatest close-up footage we have of this American icon. ;
• Runtime: 2:50
• Media Format: Movie