Les Blank Movies
- 1991
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse7.9041991HD
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming locations, and more — which plagued...
- 1982
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo7.61982HD
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...
- 1982
Burden of Dreams
Burden of Dreams7.5451982HD
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1994
My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge
My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge5.81994HD
The long-awaited sequel to Sprout Wings and Fly is a gentle celebration of mountain living, a once-thriving American way of life.
- 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.
- 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 Normandy52014HD
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...
- 1969
The Arch
The Arch7.21969HD
A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
- 1971
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion
Delusion of the Fury: A Ritual of Dream and Delusion01971HD
Conjoined fables are told, one Japanese, the other African, a ghost story colliding with farcical folklore.
- 2019
Tattoo Uprising
Tattoo Uprising02019HD
An examination of the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion.
- 1989
I Went to the Dance
I Went to the Dance7.51989HD
The definitive film on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana. Includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats,...
- 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,...
- 1984
In Heaven There Is No Beer?
In Heaven There Is No Beer?6.51984HD
A joyous romp through the dance, food, music, friendship, and even religion of the Polka. The explosive energy and high spirits of the polka...
- 1994
Hole in the Soul
Hole in the Soul5.21994HD
A self-portrait documentary of Dusan Makavejev who travels to former Yugoslavia, and charts the changes of the society which parallels to his own...
- 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...
- 2007
All In This Tea
All In This Tea72007HD
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...