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.
