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1 P.M. (1971)

1 P.M. (1971)

Documentary
Release Date: 1971, June 8
Directors: Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker
Countries: United States of America
Production: Leacock-Pennebaker
Cast: Rip Torn, Grace Slick, Jack Casady, Tom Hayden, Marty Balin, Spencer Dryden, Jorma Kaukonen, Paul Kantner, Eldridge Cleaver, Carol Bellamy, Paula Madder

Overview:

Lighter and livelier than the films Jean-Luc Godard had made in France, his U.S. collaboration with Direct Cinema documentarian D. A. Pennebaker was meant to be One A.M., as in “one American movie”; but Godard quit the project and the U.S., where to his dismay he discovered that revolution wasn’t imminent, and Pennebaker edited Godard’s material, to which he and Richard Leacock even added a bit more, releasing the result as One P.M., as in “one parallel movie.” It’s a stunning mixture of cinéma-vérité, political theater, and interviews of key sixties figures.