Les Blank

German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic “Fitzcarraldo” but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting problems ...

A look at the spirit of New Orleans. First a funeral: Allen Toussaint explains that you arrive slow and cut up afterwards. Then it’s food, ...

A documentary short by Les Blank about the beauty of gap teeth in women. Release: Gap-Toothed Women DVD x264 AAC MVGroup General: mp4 | 2082 Kbps ...

Having lost a bet with documentarian Errol Morris, Werner Herzog eats his shoe. Release: Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe 1980 iNTERNAL BDRip ...

Documentary about noted Zydeco artist Clifton Chenier. Based out of New Orleans, Chenier was the self-crowned “King” of Zydeco (a New ...

This documentary from Les Blank follows the indomitable Gerald “The Maestro” Gaxiola, who turned to a life of prolific art making ...

A tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time. Release: A Well Spent Life 1972 ...

The polka culture in the United States is presented. Largely associated as being Polish in nature, the strong polka culture today is primarily an ...

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 ...

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

Using music of the genre, a short look at Tex-Mex music, how it expresses love found and love lost, and how it comes straight from the heart. ...

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

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 ...

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

During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He’s a California importer who, as a youth, lived in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Another short documentary of “Real Food, Roots Music, and People Full of Passion for what they do,” Spend It All is Les Blank’s ...

Documentation of 1967 Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In. Release: God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us When We Dance 1968 Criterion ...

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