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Barbara Kopple Shadows Woody Allen, Jazz Musician Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple has a stellar list of accomplishments behind her including "Harlan County U.S.A." and "American Dream," both of which earned her Academy Awards, making her the only female documentary filmmaker ever to have won two Oscars. Kopple says of the film, "It's funny and its wild and you can see a lot of his neurosis and his claustrophobia. Kopple: One is David Rabe's "In the Boom Boom Room" which is a play he did in the 70s. www.indiewire.com /people/int_Kopple_Barbara_980417.html   (1430 words)

Interview with Barbara Kopple Barbara Koppl.e, director of the seminal union documentary, Harlan County, USA., has added another important piece to her canon of union films. Despite the inevitable delay, Kopple said at a recent Boston University luncheon, "I think it is a perfect time for it [the film] to come out." She cited the pertinence of the film to the current election year climate, with jobs and the economy such important issues. In person Kopple is very friendly, cheerful and energetic, characteristics which have obviously served her well as a documentarian, along with her determination. pages.emerson.edu /organizations/fas/latent_image/issues/1992-04/kopple.htm   (1008 words)

Barbara Kopple - Biography - Moviefone Documentarian Barbara Kopple is best known for Harlan County, USA (1986), her Academy Award-winning chronicle of a Kentucky miner's strike. When she was 26, Kopple moved to Harlan County to film a union conflict at the Brookside mine. Kopple has also directed fictional works: in 1983, her first fictional feature, Keeping On (1983), an examination of the attempts for Southern textile workers to organize, was shown on PBS. movies.aol.com /celebrity/barbara-kopple/97885/biography   (258 words)

Barbara Kopple - Films as Director:, Other Films: According to Kopple, recording sound brought her "deeper into what was happening"; she was "hearing" and participating in the filmic process on multiple levels. Kopple was influenced by the Maysles brothers and D. Pennebaker, exponents of Direct Cinema. Kopple thinks that being a woman may have contributed to the local police letting her film in jail. www.filmreference.com /Directors-Jo-Ku/Kopple-Barbara.html   (2243 words)

indieWIRE: indieWIRE INTERVIEW: Barbara Kopple, co-director of "Shut Up & Sing" Barbara Kopple is anything but a stranger to the world of documentary film, having accomplished notoriety in the genre, directing "Harlan County, U.S.A.," which won the Academy Award for best documentary feature in 1977. Kopple again took the Oscar for best doc (shared with Arthur Cohn) in 1991 for "American Dream." Both films delve into the plight of workers, in the case of "American Dream" at a meat-packing plant in Minnesota, while "Harlan" focuses on a bitter miners strike in Kentucky. Kopple and Peck explore the aftermath of CD burnings, censorship, insults and death threats in addition to how the mayhem impacted the band's personal lives. www.indiewire.com /people/2006/10/indiewire_inter_33.html   (2138 words)

Cabin Creek Films: Barbara Kopple Biography Barbara Kopple, a two-time Academy Award winning filmmaker, recently completed directing the narrative feature Havoc, written by Stephen Gaghan, about a group of wealthy teenagers coming of age and searching for an identity in Los Angeles. Kopple produced the documentary feature Bearing Witness, which tells the story of women war correspondents in Iraq and around the world, was produced for AandE and opened the 2005 Full Frame Film Festival. Kopple currently serves as a board member for the American Film Institute and the American Univesity Center for Social Media, and actively participates in organizations that address social issues and support independent filmmaking. www.cabincreekfilms.com /meet_main.html   (432 words)

Barbara Kopple Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) In the late 1970s Kopple began work on her first non-documentary film, a fictionalized account of textile mill worker Crystal Lee Jordan's five-year struggle to unionize the factory where she worked; the project was aborted when it conflicted with Martin Ritt's "Norma Rae" (1979), loosely based on the same incidents. Kopple, however, used much of her research for the 1983 TV film "Keeping On", also about textile mill workers' attempts to organize. Kopple's second documentary, "American Dream" (1990), which tracks the course of a bitter meat-packers' strike at the Hormel plant in Minnesota, became legendary for the length of time it took to complete. www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/189903   (972 words)

Barbara Kopple's The Hamptons: as disappointing as the place itself. - By Virginia Heffernan - Slate Magazine This is the opening vista of Barbara Kopple's documentary miniseries, The Hamptons (June 2 and 3, ABC, at 9 ET). Kopple's still got it: the knack for verisimilitude, the willingness to invade cliques, the passion for installing cameras among the natives. Kopple had either caught the event on film or she hadn't, but the fallout would be her bonanza: a golden opportunity to dramatize and spell out the presumed themes of her show—entitlement and resentment. www.slate.com /?id=2066356   (1707 words)

Amazon.com: Harlan County Usa / Documentary: Video: Barbara Kopple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Barbara Kopple's documentary camera looks at this forgotten corner of 1970s America, the site of some of the bitterest labor violence in American history. Filmmaker Barbara Kopple and her crew did a masterful job of capturing the lives and struggles of the mining families of Harlan County. www.amazon.com /Harlan-County-Documentary-Barbara-Kopple/dp/6303614639   (2701 words)

Lycos Movies - Celebrity - Barbara Kopple Kopple began making films in her clinical psychology class while at college in West Virginia and went to live among her coal-mining subjects in Kentucky to film her Oscar-winning debut, "Harlan County, U.S.A." (1976). The film chronicles the miners' violent struggle to join the United Mine Workers union and the effect of the strike on the lives of them and their families. Praised for putting a human face on a political issue, it was one of 25 films chosen by the Library of Congress to be placed on its Film Registry in 1990. entertainment.lycos.com /movies/celebrity.php?id=11684   (144 words)

Barbara Kopple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Kopple's most recent documentary film is WILD MAN BLUES (1998), which is an insider's view of Woody Allen's New Orleans Jazz Band's successful tour of Europe. In addition, Kopple recently completed DEFENDING OUR DAUGHTERS, a documentary about women's human rights for the Lifetime Channel which was honored with the Voices of Courage Award by the Women's Refugee Committee. Kopple has been honored with the Cannes Film Festival Critics Chioice Award, the National Society of Film Critics Award, and the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award. theoscarsite.com /whoswho6/kopple_b.htm   (401 words)

Cyndi Greening / Cynematik: Documentarian Barbara Kopple The act of pointing the camera in a specific direction, capturing some audio (while ignoring other), and editing the material together inevitably created a subjective portrait. Kopple went on to say that documentary filmmakers should endeavor to capture and present the subject matter honestly and accurately, knowing that it would come from their particular point of view. Notice how Kopple pointed the camera at the women watching the explosions rather than the explosions themselves. www.cyndigreening.com /2003/09/documentarian_barbara_kopple.html   (307 words)

TwinCities IMC: Interview: Filmmaker Barbara Kopple The fact that the film’s director, Barbara Kopple, traveled from New York City to Appalachia to document our struggles awakened something in me. The way she did it— having the people in the town tell their own story—electrified me and revealed the possibilities of what art can do. I was struck by the fact that while the miners in Harlan County faced down pistol-toting thugs and infuriating levels of injustice, they kept singing songs and cracking jokes—even at the tensest moments on the picket line. Without a doubt, Kopple made her reputation on that film for which she won an Oscar in 1977, the first of two Academy Awards she has received. twincities.indymedia.org /newswire/display/22230/index.php   (1580 words)

ToxicUniverse.com - Barbara Kopple - 1976 - Harlan County, U.S.A. Movies Review Kopple attempts to get management views recorded on film, but they decline for the most part. She attempts to stay out of the conflict herself, only drawn in noticeably twice—once when a local gun-toting thug boss asks for her press pass and during a chaotic shootout where she is pushed to the ground. Since Kopple gains such intimate access, she films a few items that the workers certainly would edit out if they could. www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10004673   (906 words)

Barbara Kopple Biography, Photos, News for Barbara Kopple | TVGuide.com There are no blog posts for Barbara Kopple. There are no group posts for Barbara Kopple. There are no forum posts for Barbara Kopple. www.tvguide.com /detail/celebrity.aspx?tvobjectid=180657   (33 words)

Filmmaker Magazine | Summer 2003: TRUE TALES FROM THE GLOBAL CRISIS Veteran documentarian Barbara Kopple – whose films, notably Harlan County, U.S.A. and American Dream, are themselves models for a new generation of nonfiction filmmakers – spoke with Kennedy. Kopple: Would you ever be inclined to make a movie, if somebody calls you up and says, "Hey, you want to do a film about ballet dancers?" Kopple: But he also said, "I’m sorry I can’t help you." As a strong, macho man in that culture, he must have felt so powerless that he wasn’t able to help his daughter. www.filmmakermagazine.com /summer2003/features/global_crisis.php   (2394 words)

The Hamptons | Barbara Kopple | tv : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Documentarian Barbara Kopple reveals the sociological shenanigans of a ritzy summer enclave in ''The Hamptons.'' by Troy Patterson The filmmaker Barbara Kopple first saw the Hamptons -- the string of resort towns at the tail of Long Island -- in the mid-'60s, when she was in her early teens and her parents dragged her along on fishing vacations. And on a Tuesday morning in May, her decidedly girlish self-presentation -- a succession of head tosses and hair flips that set her interlocutors at ease -- are in evidence as she works to finish ''The Hamptons,'' a two-part film shot last summer and airing on ABC June 2 and 3. www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,249632_3_0_,00.html   (545 words)

Barbara Kopple - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Her first non-documentary feature film, Havoc, released straight to DVD in 2005, starred Anne Hathaway and Bijou Phillips as wealthy suburbanites who venture into East Los Angeles Latino gang territory. Kopple has recently ventured into advertising work that includes documentary-style commercials for Target Stores. In the fall of 2006, she released a documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing about the Dixie Chicks post-Bush controversy. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Kopple   (291 words)

Barbara Kopple Barbara Kopple made her name chronicling the history of the downtrodden, winning an Oscar for her devastating portrait of a Kentucky miners' strike with Harlan County, USA (1976) and revisiting the subject of labor struggles with American Dream (1990). Following Allen and his jazz band around Europe during a three-week tour, Blues delves deep into the life of the famously reclusive Allen, and includes some fascinating sequences of interaction between Allen and Soon-Yi Previn, his controversial bride and former foster daughter. Kopple, 51, is currently putting the finishing touches on Generations, a portrait of the Woodstock generation and their Woodstock 2-going offspring, and a pair of fiction features. www.citypaper.net /articles/052198/20q.shtml   (889 words)

Amazon.ca: Harlan County, USA (Criterion Collection): DVD: Barbara Kopple   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10) Sometimes ugly, always absorbing, this is an important, enlightening social record, one that serves the highest calling of the documentary filmmaker's art. Barbara Kopple’s Academy Award–winning Harlan County USA unflinchingly documents a grueling coal miners’ strike in a small Kentucky town. Featuring a haunting soundtrack with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reese, the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. www.amazon.ca /Harlan-County-USA-Criterion-Collection/dp/B000E5LEVU   (643 words)

Barbara Kopple's - Harlan County USA - Barbara Kopple Harlan County USA Barbara Kopple Harlan County USA Barbara Kopple ... With unprecedented access, Kopple and her crew captured the miners’ sometimes violent struggles with strikebreakers, local police, and company thugs. Featuring a haunting soundtrack—with legendary country and bluegrass artists Hazel Dickens, Merle Travis, Sarah Gunning, and Florence Reece—the film is a heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line. These can be the best commentaries as they are very honest with Barbara relaying details about the films unsuspected success. www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReviews21/harlan_county_usa_dvd_review.htm   (407 words)

Cyndi Greening / Cynematik: Sundance Collection: Barbara Kopple's Harlan County, U.S.A. @ Sundance 2005 Sundance Collection: Barbara Kopple's Harlan County, U.S.A. @ Sundance 2005 I am very excited to report that Documentarian Barbara Kopple's film Harlan County, U.S.A. will screen. The film focuses on the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky. www.cyndigreening.com /2004/12/sundance_collection_barbara_ko.html   (366 words)

Film Summary: American Dream, a film by Barbara Kopple   Kopple's voiceover: "Hormel's proposal keeps the base wage frozen for three years at 10:00, and any new employees would be paid two dollars less for the same work."  But that offer is rejected by both the local union and by the international union.   Kopple's Voiceover: "For the first time in 52 years, the Hormel Plant was about to be shut down by a strike."  Guyette meets with Hormel executive.   Kopple is heard interviewing a man in his truck as he waits to enter the plant. www.tc.umn.edu /~ryahnke/filmteach/dream-v.htm   (5835 words)

Barbara Kopple - Moviefone Barbara Kopple on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more... Kopple has recently ventured into advertising work that includes documentary-style... Barbara Kopple - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Barbara Kopple Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone. movies.aol.com /celebrity/barbara-kopple/97885/main   (114 words)

iraq: Barbara Kopple's “Bearing Witness” Doc: May 25, 2005 Barbara Kopple's “Bearing Witness” Doc: May 25, 2005 “Bearing Witness, which Kopple co-directed with Marijana Wotton, takes a critical look at wartime reportage, though it leaves control-room considerations aside in order to focus on the personal costs of unembedded frontline journalism. At 90 minutes, Bearing Witness is too short to go very deep into the lives of five women. www.camerairaq.com /2005/05/barbara_kopples.html   (413 words)

Oscar-Winning Director Barbara Kopple Returns to Commercial Field Following Success of 'Dixie Chicks' Feature ... Oscar-Winning Director Barbara Kopple Returns to Commercial Field Following Success of 'Dixie Chicks' Feature Documentary Bicoastal U.S. commercial production company Nonfiction Spots (http://www.nonfictionspots.com/) today announced the availability of two-time Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple to the commercial advertising community, following the successful completion of her most recent documentary feature, "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing," which she co-directed and co-produced with Cecilia Peck. One of the greatest documentary filmmakers of our time, Barbara has worked with Nonfiction Spots as a commercial director since 1995. www.elitestv.com /pub/2006/Sep/EEN450ebb4c4a056.html   (327 words)

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