Most Popular Dick Fontaine Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
The Souvenir Trailer (2019)
17 May 2019
A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.
Bombin' Trailer (1987)
01 January 1987
First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zulu nation bringing American hip-hop culture to the UK for first time.
David, Moffett, and Ornette: The Ornette Coleman Trio Trailer (1966)
01 January 1966
In Paris in the spring of 1966, Ornette Coleman, controversial Free Jazz composer, wrote and recorded the soundtrack for a Living Theatre project, a film entitled Who's crazy? This documentary short is a record of the two days Ornette spent in the studio making music with collaborators, virtuoso bass player David Izenson (formerly of the NBC Symphony Orchestra) and drummer Charles Moffett.
Heroes Trailer (1967)
01 January 1967
A satire on celebrity with a cacophony of gossip merchants, publicists, and “a host of stars.”
The Face on the Cover Trailer (1964)
10 May 1964
The life of the world’s top model Jean Shrimpton and her svengali photographer David Bailey.
Beat This!: A Hip Hop History Trailer (1984)
05 January 1984
Beat This: A Hip-Hop History is a 1984 BBC documentary film about hip-hop culture, directed by Dick Fontaine.
The Sun Trailer (1964)
15 September 1964
The end of the 'Daily Herald' and the beginning of a new daily paper, 'The Sun'. Also a portrait of its first editor, Hugh Cudlipp.
Double Pisces, Scorpio Rising Trailer (1970)
12 September 1970
One of the human trio is Dick Fontaine, the director, a thin, long-haired youth who has put together this highly personal exercise on something or other that runs, mercifully, for 58 minutes and comes from an English group of movie folk called the Tattooists.
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
Portrait of Norman Mailer at the time of the Pentagon demonstrations in 1967, documenting Mailer's involvement and arrest, together with two TV appearances and shooting on the set of his second film 'Beyond the Law'.
Death of a Revolutionary Trailer (1972)
01 January 1972
Report on the death in San Quentin prison, California, on 21 August 1971 of six men including black militant, George Jackson, whose funeral was an occasion for oration by Black Panther leaders including Bobby Seale and Huey P.
Tativille Trailer (1966)
08 May 1966
Interview with Jacques Tati on the set of his 1967 film "PlayTime". Produced for the British television program "Tempo International".
I Heard It Through the Grapevine Trailer (1982)
03 March 1982
Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and insight on the passage of more than two decades.
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes Trailer (2012)
01 January 2012
Sonny Rollins: Beyond the Notes uses his 80th birthday concert to look into the man and his music.
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
A portrait of inspirational jazz drummer and teacher Art Blakey with Dizzy Gillespie, many pupils including Wayne Shorter, the Marsalis brothers, and a surprising new generation of musicians and dancers.
Sound?? Trailer (1966)
09 February 1966
Although Rahsaan Roland Kirk and John Cage never actually meet in this film (Cage's enigmatic questions about sound are intercut with some of Kirk's more ambitious experiments with it) these two very different musical iconoclasts share a similar vision of the boundless possibilities of music.
Who Is Sonny Rollins? Trailer (1968)
01 January 1968
A portrait of jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins during a period of self-exile, filmed practicing and reflecting on music, politics, and artistic independence across New York City.
Norman Mailer vs. Fun City Trailer (1970)
31 December 1970
Dick Fontaine documents Norman Mailer’s 1969 bid for the Mayor’s office in New York City. Accompanied by his running mate, Jimmy Breslin, Mailer charismatically works the press and the public with a provocative platform that ultimately fails.
