Les Blank Movies
- 1982
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo7.641982HD
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...
- 1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse7.9131991HD
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued...
- 1982
Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams7.5381982HD
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...
- 1972
Spend It All
Spend It All6.61972HD
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...
- 1974
A Poem Is a Naked Person
A Poem Is a Naked Person7.71974HD
Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period...
- 1987
Gap-Toothed Women
Gap-Toothed Women6.61987HD
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...
- 1980
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe71980HD
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...
- 1969
The Arch
The Arch7.21969HD
A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
- 1964
Dizzy Gillespie
Dizzy Gillespie6.61964HD
This is Les Blank’s earliest music film, focusing on the renown trumpet player, Dizzy Gillespie, who along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk,...
- 1968
The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins
The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins7.81968HD
Les Blank's portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins. Preserved by the...
- 2008
Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank!
Oh My God! It's Harrod Blank!02008HD
An obsessively-made documentary, filmed over 16 years, exploring the creative life and adventures of the eccentric artist and entrepreneur Harrod...
- 1980
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers7.51980HD
A zesty paean of praise to the greater glories of garlic. This lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative...
- 1971
A Well Spent Life
A Well Spent Life6.41971HD
A tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.
- 1995
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists
The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists61995HD
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...
- 1976
Chulas Fronteras
Chulas Fronteras6.61976HD
A complex, insightful look at the Chicano experience as mirrored in the lives and music of the most acclaimed Norteño musicians of the...
- 1990
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana
Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana6.71990HD
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...
- 1978
Always for Pleasure
Always for Pleasure7.31978HD
An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features...
- 1980
Poto and Cabengo
Poto and Cabengo6.81980HD
Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.
- 1983
Sprout Wings and Fly
Sprout Wings and Fly5.71983HD
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,...
- 1988
Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball
Ry Cooder & The Moula Banda Rhythm Aces: Let's Have a Ball101988HD
Following a brief statement by Ry Cooder on his thoughts about performing - and improvising - on stage, this concert film depicts Cooder's 1987 live...