Richard Leacock Movies

  • 1981
    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House

    01981HD

    Five Japanese carpenters came to Boston that summer to reconstruct a Kyoto silkweaver's 150 year old townhouse that had been packed in crates and...

    Rebuilding an Old Japanese House
  • 1984
    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock

    01984HD

    A portrait of the two documentary filmmakers Jerzy Bossak and Richard Leacock.

    Ein Film für Bossak und Leacock
  • 1983
    Community of Praise

    Community of Praise

    Community of Praise

    01983HD

    This documentary examines one family's desperate search for faith and religious meaning in Muncie, Indiana.

    Community of Praise
  • 2011
    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales

    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales

    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales

    02011HD

    Colleagues, friends and specialists pay tribute to the filmmaker Mario Ruspoli in a portrait that mixes encounters, archive images and film excerpts....

    Mario Ruspoli, Prince of the Whales
  • 1984
    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

    Lulu in Berlin

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    Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks....

    Lulu in Berlin
  • 1968
    Chiefs

    Chiefs

    Chiefs

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    Filmed at the October 1968 meeting in Hawaii of several hundred police chiefs of the International Association of Chiefs of Police as they watch...

    Chiefs
  • 1957
    American Football

    American Football

    American Football

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    A coach’s whole career depends upon winning this football game, the U.S. Air Force Academy against the University of Colorado. The film was an...

    American Football
  • 1975
    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    Solstice and Solyanka

    01975HD

    Super 8 film. Observations of the Institute on Film, Video & Photography, Amherst, MA, summer 1975. Among the cast of characters, in order of...

    Solstice and Solyanka
  • 1999
    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter

    01999HD

    Flora Natapoff, known for her large collages of urban and industrial motifs, due to MS begins to work on a smaller scale that is no less powerful....

    Flora Natapoff - An American Painter
  • 1967
    A Stravinsky Portrait

    A Stravinsky Portrait

    A Stravinsky Portrait

    71967HD

    This documentary follows composer and conductor Igor Stavinsky at his home in California, in London, and in Hamburg where he conducts an orchestra...

    A Stravinsky Portrait
  • 1961
    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs

    01961HD

    The documentary traces Eddie Sachs (one of the most popular drivers in the history of the Indianapolis 500) in a behind-the-scenes look at the race...

    On the Pole: Eddie Sachs
  • 1962
    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost

    01962HD

    A film by the Drew-Leacock team.

    Kenya: Land of the White Ghost
  • 1970
    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    Queen of Apollo

    01970HD

    In 1970 I went to New Orleans with Noel Parmentel to shoot fragments of the “The Moviegoer.” While we were down there my daughter Elspeth...

    Queen of Apollo
  • 1962
    Nehru

    Nehru

    Nehru

    01962HD

    The first candid film made on a foreign chief of state, three weeks in the life of Jawaharlal Nehru.

    Nehru
  • 1965
    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary

    Elizabeth and Mary

    01965HD

    A film focusing on a day in the life of two identical twin girls, one of whom is blind and mentally handicapped

    Elizabeth and Mary
  • 1956
    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp

    01956HD

    Filmed amidst the Arensberg collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where 35 works by Marcel Duchamp are gathered, this 1956 NBC interview...

    A Conversation with Marcel Duchamp
  • 1961
    The Children Were Watching

    The Children Were Watching

    The Children Were Watching

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    A harrowing portrait of the struggle for school desegregation in New Orleans against the violent protests of white parents.

    The Children Were Watching
  • 2011
    BodySongs

    BodySongs

    BodySongs

    02011HD

    The classical nude as video in four male/female duets

    BodySongs
  • 1977
    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    Centerbeam

    01977HD

    Film produced and directed by Ricky Leacock, Edward Pincus, and MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies documenting the Centerbeam kinetic sculpture...

    Centerbeam
  • 1991
    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock

    01991HD

    Inspired by both new love and Gulliver's Travels, Les Oeufs à la Coque (aka Richard Leacock's Soft-Boiled Eggs), is a ravishingly beautiful,...

    Les oeufs à la coque de Richard Leacock