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Jun 5, 2024 · For the next seven weeks, this chronicler of the cultural margins will become the center of attention at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), which is mounting a Blank retrospective that will showcase new restorations of his eclectic oeuvre.
Jun 2, 2024 · Maureen Gosling, filmmaker and film editor, discusses the films of noted documentary director Les Blank (1935-2013), which whom she collaborated for several years, along with her own career, in this interview with host Richard Wolinsky.
Jun 19, 2024 · Directed by the late legendary documentarian Les Blank, the award-winning “Burden Of Dreams” (1982) centers on German filmmaker Werner Herzog, actor Klaus Kinski, and the nearly disastrous making of their third collaboration, “Fitzcarraldo” (1982).
Jun 18, 2024 · As much a standard-bearer for behind-the-scenes docs as Hearts of Darkness––maybe there's something about watching famed auteurs lose their grip in the jungle––Les Blank's Burden of Dreams cuts through much mythos and memery that's defined Werner Herzog, burrowing deep into the making of his life-threatening (in some cases ...
Jun 10, 2024 · Les Blank's 1980 documentary 'Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers' is an ode to the stinking rose and a celebration of its culinary, cultural and historical joy.
Jun 20, 2024 · Argot Pictures has revealed a brand new re-release trailer for the documentary classic Burden of Dreams, one of the great behind-the-scenes looks at making an epic. Les Blank's doc is about...
Jun 12, 2024 · Excerpt from Les Blank: A Quiet Revelation, a film project by Harrod Blank and Gina Leibrecht New interviews with Blank’s sons, Harrod Blank and Beau Blank; Blank documentary subject Gerald Gaxiola (a.k.a. the Maestro); Blank’s friends and collaborators Skip Gerson, Maureen Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Werner Herzog, Susan Kell, Tom ...
