Les Blank

Registro das tumultuadas filmagens do épico 'Apocalypse Now', realizado pelo cineasta entre 1975 e 1978 nas Filipinas. Contém cenas do documentário...

27 de nov. de 1991

Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, Fitzcarraldo, fã do tenor italiano Enrico Caruso, sonha em construir uma casa de ópera na remota cidade de Iquitos, no al...

24 de jan. de 1983

The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems re...

01 de out. de 1982

19 de nov. de 1980

A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative ...

12 de out. de 1980

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 a...

17 de fev. de 1987

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

09 de mai. de 1974

An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features l...

02 de mai. de 1978

Les Blank's first documentary cinematography job shooting Drag Racers in Long Beach, CA, driving everything from hopped up "Mercs" to Supercharged ...

01 de jan. de 1965

This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk, Son...

01 de jan. de 1964

The definitive film on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana. Includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats, fe...

13 de out. de 1989

A joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka subcul...

23 de mai. de 1984

20 de dez. de 1968

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

18 de dez. de 1969

Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky,...

01 de out. de 1983

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 ye...

14 de abr. de 2007

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

01 de jan. de 1994

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 estab...

12 de out. de 1995

Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.

25 de mar. de 1980

A tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.

11 de mar. de 1971

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 t...

13 de mar. de 1972

A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the Texas-Mexica...

30 de dez. de 1976

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

01 de out. de 1968

A warmly amusing look at a bus-full of American tourists on a whirlwind tour of Europe. The eclectic soundtrack includes Mozart, Bob Dylan, Sandy D...

01 de jan. de 1991

Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait...

01 de out. de 1973

Thrilling musical portrait of Zydeco King Clifton Chenier, who combines the pulsating rhythms of Cajun dance music and black R&B with African overt...

22 de nov. de 1973

Les Blank marries his passion for spicy, down home food and his love for Cajuns and Creoles in this mouth-watering, exploration of the cooking, and...

08 de set. de 1990

Oakland bluesman Sonny Rhodes sings “Cigarette Blues”: a musical warning that compares cigarette smoking with playing with a loaded gun.

01 de out. de 1985

Les Blank's first student film, made while at USC, starring Gail Blank, Pieter Van Deusen and Les himself. This short pays homage to Ingmar Bergman...

01 de jan. de 1960

A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own l...

01 de jan. de 1994

In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and record...

31 de ago. de 2014

When you think of Latin percussion, think of Francisco Aguabella. Perhaps the finest Afro-Cuban master percussionist still living, he has become sy...

01 de out. de 1995

An examination of the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion.

12 de jul. de 2019

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 ...

12 de set. de 1987

A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Preserved by the Academy ...

02 de jan. de 1969

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 N...

01 de jan. de 1991

Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing - and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987 liv...

01 de jan. de 1988

Lightnin' Hopkins sings about playing cards with Les Blank and Skip Gerson - a card game he won which turned critical to the making of the film "Th...

01 de jan. de 1968

A lyrical journey through the heart of Chicano culture as reflected in the love songs of the Tex-Mex Norteña music tradition. Performers include, L...

01 de jan. de 1979

A film created by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling from footage that was cut from the documentary "Always for Pleasure" (1978) about Mardi Gras in New...

01 de jan. de 2006

Les Blank continued filming the Maestro after the original film “The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists” was completed. Here are the Maestro’s lat...

01 de jan. de 2005

This short film by Les Blank with Skip Gerson features the charismatic legendary blues icon Lightnin' Hopkins sing a beautiful song about a stutter...

01 de jan. de 1969

Legendary filmmaker Les Blank's toe-tapping film treats us to a portrait of a musical Louisiana couple committed to celebrating and preserving Caju...

01 de jan. de 1991

Anthology of six short films, including: Dizzy Gillespie Chicken Real Cigarette Blues God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance ...

01 de jan. de 1985

Conjoined fables are told, one Japanese, the other African, a ghost story colliding with farcical folklore.

01 de jan. de 1971

One of Les Blank's industrial films, which follows a Holly Farms "broiler" chicken from factory incubation to the county fair barbecue pit. A hilar...

01 de jan. de 1970

In 1967 Les Blank and Skip Gerson were hired to work in Thailand on a documentary about the B52 Bomber and its use in bombing campaigns over Vietnam.

18 de nov. de 2015

This little-known Blank gem is a portrait of the Serbian-American communities of Chicago and California, highlighting their history in this country...

12 de set. de 1987

This creative educational film by Pieter Van Deusen features a variety of string instruments performed by noted musicians such as Shamim Ahmed Kahn...

01 de jan. de 1969

This softball umpire training film was one of Les Blank's early industrial films made in 1962 prior to his independent filmmaking career. He made o...

01 de jan. de 1962

One of Les Blank's student films: a horror film following a young couple.

01 de jan. de 1961

The Ways of Water was made with the Earth Science Curriculum Project and the Environmental Studies Project of the American Geological Institute. A ...

01 de jan. de 1971

This film, photographed and edited by Les Blank, produced and directed by Pieter Van Deusen, documents a spontaneously improvised concert by musici...

01 de jan. de 1967

A short film looking at the early married life of a young couple.

01 de jan. de 1962

From Worldcat: Presents new musical sounds and new ways of treating old sounds. Includes examples of chance music, tape music, synthesizer music, a...

01 de jan. de 1968