D.A. Pennebaker to Direct the National

D.A. Pennebaker is an 84-year-old documentary filmmaker, known for the notorious Dylan-in-1965 tour film Don't Look Back, the festival doc Monterey Pop, and David Bowie's concert film Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. Octogenarian filmmaking legends don't usually mess with things like YouTube webcasts, but Pennebaker is doing just that for the National. That's just how big a deal those guys are now. On May 15, the National will play a show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It'll be a be...

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