Interview. DA Pennebaker. 2.

"For [Monterey Pop], you have the emergence of two or three enormous talents that just defy description. You didn't have to go through the sociology of interviewing them to find out what their motivations were. The performance alone was enough.... [P]erhaps the form of the film was interesting for people. It's easy to watch. It's colorful and it moves fast but I think the fact is that most people go to it because of Hendrix or because of Janis or because of Otis."

The second part of Jonathan Marlow's interview with DA Pennebaker focuses on the concert films besides Don't Look Now and on the delightfully chaotic episode of his life that happens to star Jean-Luc Godard.

Posted by dwhudson at March 18, 2007 8:11 AM