Catalogue des films de « Dick Fontaine »
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Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1994
Betty Carter, not only the hippest singer in jazz, but also, now Art Blakey has gone, the most committed teacher, attempts to turn boyz into men.
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1987
Portrait of the great jazz drummer Art Blakey, with his students Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis Brothers, Terence Blanchard and a new generation of extraordinarily talented musicians and dancers.
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1985
Leaving the Bronx, the founders of hip-hop culture, deliver their message to Britain’s ghettos. With the graffiti artist Brim Fuentes and the Drum ‘n’ Bass icon, Goldie, mainly known at the time for his work as an artist in Birmingham and...
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1983
The origins of hip-hop and DJing in the run-down Bronx of the 70s, through stock footage of numerous musicians: the pioneer of pioneers, Kool DJ Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Cold Crush Brothers…
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1980
Dick Fontaine returns to the civil rights movement in the USA and takes a fresh look at their ideals twenty years on. In the cities of the South, the hotspots of the struggle, he meets former activists, follows the writer James Baldwin, and...
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1972
An evocation of the life and ideas of Soledad Brother George Jackson after his assassination in San Quentin Prison, with Huey Newton and Bobby Seale.
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre | 1971
The filmmaker’s ironic autobiography mixes real and imaginary characters, to the music of Pete Townshend. Featuring stars such as Norman Mailer, Pat Hartley and Amanda Lear.
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre, États-Unis | 1968
AA portrait of the legendary jazzman Sonny Rollins during his self-exile from stage performance. He plays with students in Harlem, in the countryside and on NewYork’s Williamsburg Bridge, accompanying the passing trains.
Auteur-Réalisateur | Angleterre, États-Unis | 1968
After Norman Mailer’s novel, Armies of the Night, Dick Fontaine explores the writer’s involvement in the anti-war protest and the October 1967 march on the Pentagon. The film also shows behind-the-scenes footage of Mailer’s second feature...