Movies: Les Blank

  • 1982
    Fitzcarraldo

    Fitzcarraldo (1982)

    Fitzcarraldo

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    Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of th...

    Fitzcarraldo
  • 1991
    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)

    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

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    A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued the filming of Apocalypse Now, increasing costs and nearly destroying the life and career of Francis Ford Coppola...

    Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
  • 1982
    Burden of Dreams

    Burden of Dreams (1982)

    Burden of Dreams

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    The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dr...

    Burden of Dreams
  • 1980
    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980)

    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

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    Directors Werner Herzog and Errol Morris make a bet which results in Herzog living up to his promise that he would eat his shoe if Errol Morris ever completed the film Gates of Heaven....

    Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
  • 1980
    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980)

    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

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    A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose features chef Alice Waters of Chez Panisse, and a flavorful musical soundtr...

    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
  • 1968
    The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins

    The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1968)

    The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins

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    Les Blank's portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002....

    The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins
  • 1978
    Always for Pleasure

    Always for Pleasure (1978)

    Always for Pleasure

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    An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live music from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers and more. This glorious...

    Always for Pleasure
  • 2007
    All In This Tea

    All In This Tea (2007)

    All In This Tea

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    During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He's a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman's mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand p...

    All In This Tea
  • 1974
    A Poem Is a Naked Person

    A Poem Is a Naked Person (1974)

    A Poem Is a Naked Person

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    Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period (1972-1974)....

    A Poem Is a Naked Person
  • 1972
    Spend It All

    Spend It All (1972)

    Spend It All

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    Another short documentary of "Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do!", Spend It All is Les Blank's spirited look at the French-speaking Cajun community of southwest Louisiana. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 20...

    Spend It All
  • 2014
    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy

    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy (2014)

    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy

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    In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! With the flair of a...

    How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy
  • 1969
    The Arch

    The Arch (1969)

    The Arch

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    A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter....

    The Arch
  • 1987
    Gap-Toothed Women

    Gap-Toothed Women (1987)

    Gap-Toothed Women

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    A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women...

    Gap-Toothed Women
  • 1994
    My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge

    My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1994)

    My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge

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    The long-awaited sequel to Sprout Wings and Fly is a gentle celebration of mountain living, a once-thriving American way of life....

    My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge
  • 1968
    God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

    God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1968)

    God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance

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    Les Blank's poetic documentation of 1967's Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2002....

    God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance
  • 1973
    Hot Pepper

    Hot Pepper (1973)

    Hot Pepper

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    Thrilling musical portrait of Zydeco King Clifton Chenier, who combines the pulsating rhythms of Cajun dance music and black R&B with African overtones, belting out his irresistible music in the sweaty juke joints of South Louisiana....

    Hot Pepper
  • 1995
    The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists

    The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists (1995)

    The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists

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    What happens when a dedicated husband and father quits his job, adopts the persona of a Western-Movie Singing Cowboy, takes on the entire art establishment (including Christo and Andy Warhol), and refuses to accept money for his art ? Meet Gerry Gaxi...

    The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
  • 1987
    Huey Lewis and the News: Before!

    Huey Lewis and the News: Before! (1987)

    Huey Lewis and the News: Before!

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    Huey Lewis And The News: BEFORE! follows one of the world’s top rock-and-roll bands of the 80’s and a crew of fifty technicians to the Bahamas for the making of a music video for their number one hit single, “Stuck With You” for their album, “FORE!” ...

    Huey Lewis and the News: Before!
  • 1991
    Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge

    Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)

    Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge

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    80-year-old Julie Lyon, sister of Old Time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, lights up this gem of a film as she spins tales of her Appalachian childhood in North Carolina - and her first romance....

    Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge
  • 1976
    Chulas Fronteras

    Chulas Fronteras (1976)

    Chulas Fronteras

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    A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the Texas-Mexican border, including Flaco Jimenez and Lydia Mendoza. Video includes bonus feature, Del Mero Corazon....

    Chulas Fronteras