Roger Graef was an American-born British documentary filmmaker known for such films as One of Them is Brett (1965) and Why Save Florence? (1968).
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RIP D. A. “direct cinema” Pennebaker (1925 – 2019)
D. A. Pennebaker was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Documentaries about performing artists and politics were his primary subjects. He was known for his hand-held camera aesthetic.
Pennebaker was an important chronicler of sixties counterculture.
To the general audience, he is probably best-known for the film clip to “Subterranean Homesick Blues“, in which Dylan displays and discards a series of cue cards bearing selected words and phrases from the lyrics of the song.
Domina Catherine Robbe-Grillet
The Ceremony (2014) is a documentary film directed by Lina Mannheimer which examines Catherine Robbe-Grillet as dominatrix.
RIP Albert Maysles (1926 – 2015)
Albert Maysles was an American documentary filmmaker best-known for the documentaries Gimme Shelter (1970) Grey Gardens (1975).
He is best known for the direct cinema/cinéma vérité – documentaries he made with his brother.
You can watch Gimme Shelter[1] and Grey Gardens[2] in their totalities on YouTube. And Salesman[3] too (practically).
If your new to the Maysles, I’d start with Grey Gardens, the story of an eccentric mother and daugther.
The Love Life of the Octopus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzclhRnlC08
The Love Life of the Octopus (1965, French: Amours de la pieuvre) is a film on octopi by Jean Painlevé, who is also the narrator. The music is by Pierre Henry.
Last year, or two years ago, I saw Microcosmos and for a while I was very much into the love lives of animals[1].
The Love Life of the Octopus has also a scene of lovemaking of octopi.