Les Blank Movies
- 1982
Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo7.6381982HD
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 Dreams7.61982HD
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems...
- 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...
- 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,...
- 1969
The Arch
The Arch7.21969HD
A widow upholds feudal virtue by suppressing her love for a cavalry captain in favor of her daughter.
- 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...
- 2019
Tattoo Uprising
Tattoo Uprising02019HD
An examination of the artistic and historical roots of today's tattoo explosion.
- 1973
Dry Wood
Dry Wood6.11973HD
Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait...
- 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...
- 1980
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe
Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe6.9521980HD
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...
- 1974
A Poem Is a Naked Person
A Poem Is a Naked Person7.61974HD
Les Blank's first feature-length documentary captures music and other events at Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three-year period...
- 1965
Seven Second Love Affair
Seven Second Love Affair01965HD
Les Blank's first documentary cinematography job shooting Drag Racers in Long Beach, CA, driving everything from hopped up "Mercs" to Supercharged...
- 1987
Gap-Toothed Women
Gap-Toothed Women6.71987HD
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
Poto and Cabengo
Poto and Cabengo6.81980HD
Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.
- 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...
- 1983
Sprout Wings and Fly
Sprout Wings and Fly5.91983HD
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,...
- 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...
- 1973
Hot Pepper
Hot Pepper6.6251973HD
A musical portrait of Zydeco King Clifton Chenier, who combines the pulsating rhythms of Cajun dance music and black R&B with African overtones,...
- 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...