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Film

Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 4

Thursday, July 23, 2009

7 p.m.

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Jingle Bells
D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 16 min., video

Campaign Manager
Richard Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr., 1964, 25 min., video

You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 12 min., video

Lambert and Co.
D. A. Pennebaker, 1964, 15 min., video

A Stravinsky Portrait
Richard Leacock and Rolf Lieberman, 1965, 58 min., video

Image: Richard Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr., Campaign Manager (still), 1964; photo courtesy of Pennebaker Hegedus Films

SFMOMA thanks Alex Cherian, San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive film archivist, for his assistance and support of this program.

This program explores a multifaceted slice of the America also captured in Avedon and Baldwin’s Nothing Personal. Stars like Sammy Davis Jr. and high-wattage politicians like Robert F. Kennedy celebrate Christmas with students (Jingle Bells). The Republicans go for Goldwater at their 1964 convention in San Francisco (Campaign Manager). Timothy Leary gets married (You’re Nobody Till Somebody Loves You). Jazz great Dave Lambert rehearses a new quintet, a few months before his accidental death (Lambert and Co.). And Igor Stravinsky reflects on his contribution to 20th-century art (A Stravinsky Portrait).