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DA Pennebaker

June 2023

  • David Bowie performing in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

    Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars review – Bowie bids farewell to an icon in legendary gig

    DA Pennebaker’s documentary offers moving moments and raw immediacy as the musician takes on his final performance as Ziggy Stardust

September 2021

  • Elaine Stritch, centre, in Original Cast Album: Company.

    ‘Sweating out the notes’: the stunning portrait of Sondheim’s Company by DA Pennebaker

    A newly rereleased documentary captures tense scenes in the studio for the 1970 musical’s original cast recording – and reveals much about the songs and their singers

August 2019

  • Humping Hendrix … the poster for Monterey Pop, the documentary featuring 1967 festival acts Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and the Who.

    How we made
    'It felt like a wonderful dream' – DA Pennebaker on making Monterey Pop

  • Screengrab of Bob Dylan in Don’t Look Back

    DA Pennebaker: restless, brilliant film-maker plugged into the 1960s zeitgeist

  • DA Pennebaker (in the hat) with Bob Dylan, left, filming Don’t Look Back, 1965.

    DA Pennebaker obituary

  • DA Pennebaker at a New York screening of Dont Look Back in 2016.

    Film-maker DA Pennebaker dies aged 94

July 2019

  • Nick Fraser at his home in west London.

    Books interview
    Nick Fraser: ‘Documentaries can change the world’

    As his book on the history of factual film is published, the former Storyville editor reveals his favourite docs and books

January 2018

  • Kate Valk and Maura Tierney in The Wooster Group’s The Town Hall Affair

    The Town Hall Affair reopens raucous 1971 debate and touches a nerve in the era of #metoo

    Wooster Group’s latest play, in Sydney this month before heading to London, reimagines a seminal night in feminist history to tackle its unfinished business

March 2017

  • Norman Mailer and Germaine Greer debating in the 1979 documentary Town Bloody Hall

    Norman Mailer v Germaine Greer: how the Town Hall row still rages

  • David Bowie performs at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.

    Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars review – grainy rock-doc records Bowie's brightest moment

June 2016

  • Unlocking The Cage

    Unlocking the Cage review – exemplary animal rights documentary

    This well made film about an organisation fighting for the rights of animals with advanced cognitive abilities presents some fascinating legal and ethical issues

May 2016

  • Photo of Bob Dylan<br>Tour of Britain, 1966: Bob Dylan with D.A. Pennebaker in the background filming the documentary Don't Look Back. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

    Don't Look Back, Bob Dylan and the invention of the rockumentary

    DA Pennebaker’s landmark film is being celebrated with its own exhibition, and more than 50 years on, it still sets the standard for the rock documentary

January 2015

  • Making history … Bob Dylan in Columbia's studio A, New York City, in January 1965.

    Bob Dylan and the Subterranean Homesick Blues revolution

    How a two-minute, rickety-rackety masterpiece recorded in a single take changed music for ever. Richard Williams celebrates the 50th anniversary of Subterranean Homesick Blues

March 2013

  • D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus outside the Adelaide festival centre

    DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus: 'A film-maker needs to watch like a cat'

    He was recently awarded a lifetime achievement Oscar, in recognition of films such as Don’t Look Back and Monterey Pop. With his wife and collaborator Chris Hegedus, DA Pennebaker recalls shooting Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Bill Clinton

March 2011

  • Richard Leacock obituary

    Richard Leacock obituary

    Fine film-maker whose subjects ranged from Kennedy to Hendrix

January 2009

  • Film talk
    The Warroom and American politics

    As American politics enters a new era, a classic documentary looking at how Bill Clinton's presidential campaign changed US politics is updated and re-released. Directors DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus discuss the new version

September 2007

  • Reeling and rocking...

    For the next two weeks, The Observer will give away classic live DVDs by Prince and Talking Heads, two of the greatest ever concert movies . What else made our musical top 10?

July 2004

  • 24 hour party people

    Metallica in therapy, Janis Joplin on acid, and the Dandy Warhols at war. Is the rock documentary making a comeback? By Alexis Petridis.

September 2001

  • Startup.com

  • DA Pennebaker: 'A camera is like a big bagpipe...'

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