Dick Fontaine
Dick Fontaine | |
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Born | 1939 |
Died | 10 October 2023 (aged 83–84) |
Alma mater | Filmmaker |
Spouse | Pat Hartley |
Children | Daniel Fontaine; Smokey Fontaine |
Dick Fontaine (1939 – 28 October 2023) was an English documentary filmmaker. He was Head of Documentary Department at the National Film and Television School from 1995 to 2012 (UK).[1][2]
Biography
Born in 1939,
Fontaine amassed a significant body of films on contemporary jazz, including on
Among the wide range of subjects he profiled in film are figures such as
Together with his wife, the
In 1993, Fontaine started a film production course at New York's School of Visual Arts, and from 1996 to 2012 he ran the Documentary Department at the postgraduate National Film and Television School (NFTS), where graduates he worked with included Nick Broomfield, Kim Longinotto, as well as a younger generation of documentarists such as Simon Chambers, Sandhya Suri, Daniel Vernon, Sam Blair and George Amponsah.[7]
Fontaine died on 28 October 2023.[11]
Selected films
- The Face On the Cover (1964)
- Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! AKA Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, New York Meets the Beatles (1964)
- Madam Six (1965)
- Temporary Person Passing Through (1965)
- Don't Mrs Worthington (1966)
- Tati in the Traffic (1966)
- Who's Crazy? AKA David, Moffett & Ornette (1966)
- Heroes (1967)
- Sound??? (1967)
- Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up! (1967)
- Who Is Sonny Rollins? (1968)
- Who Is Victor Vasarely? (1968)
- The Other Guys Are the Joke (1970)
- Double Pisces Scorpio Rising (1971)
- Death of a Revolutionary (1972)
- Who Killed Cock Robin? (1974)
- A Famous Soldier (1976)
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1980)
- Beat This! A Hip Hop-History (1984)
- Bombin' (1986)
- Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger (1987)
- Cleo Sings Sondheim (1988)
- New York Law (1989)
- Betty Carter: New All the Time (1994)
- Sonny Rollins – Beyond The Notes (2012)
References
- ^ "Dick Fontaine, website accessed 2016-07-13 at the Wayback Machine". Archived from the original on 13 June 2016. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ a b Beat This: a Hip Hop History screening at Saddlers Wells, www.britishhiphop.co.uk, , 12 April 2006. Accessed online 4 March 2007.
- ^ "I Heard It through the Grapevine". Berlinale. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ "Interview with Dick Fontaine: Alan Whicker, Me and the Future of TV", Whicker's World Foundation, 8 January 2016. Archived 2017-03-04 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ PAST: Black World TV: Rap & Hip-Hop Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, Blackworld, British Film Institute. Accessed online 4 March 2007.
- IMDbAccessed online 4 March 2007.
- ^ a b "Biography" at dickfontaine.com.
- ISBN 9780857120083. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ "Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley Collection". Harvard Film Archive. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
- ^ Larry Getlen, "A Better Vibe", Wesleyan (Wesleyan University alumni magazine), Issue IV, 2006, 28–32, p. 28.
- ^ "Remembering Dick Fontaine: 'Death of a Revolutionary'". The Whickers. 1 November 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
External links
- Dick Fontaine at IMDb
- An introduction of documentary film by Dick Fontaine (in traditional Chinese, written by Shih-Lun CHANG)
- "Dick Fontaine: 5 Records That Changed My Life" Archived 1 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine, 26 April 2013.
- Sandile Ngidi, "'I wanted to get to the soul': Dick Fontaine on his approach to documentary filmmaking", Mail & Guardian, 20 February 2021.
- Dick Fontaine & Pat Hartley Collection at Harvard Film Archive.