Explore the story of director, screenwriter and producer Blake Edwards, known for cinema classics such as “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” “Days of Wine and Roses” and the “Pink Panther” series. (Source: American Masters)
Giant of Documentary Film, Robert Drew Completed a Feature About Wife Before His Death
By Gregory Crofton Robert Drew, who invented a new way to tell stories with a camera called American cinéma vérite, also known as direct cinema, kept working right up until his death at 90. “His mind was clear until the…
Robert Drew Taught Everyone Else How to Catch Life on Camera
Robert Drew (left), president and founder of Drew Associates, an independent documentary film producer, explains to an interviewer, Alfred Norrins, the new concept of journalistic filmmaking he pioneered in the late 1950s, which came to be known as American cinema…
Hal Ashby: A Man Out of Time
A short documentary on the great American filmmaker Hal Ashby made after his death. Included in the “Coming Home” DVD extras.
