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A Poem Is a Naked Person is a 1974 American documentary film directed by Les Blank, filmed in 1972–1974 but not publicly released until 2015, after Blank's death.
A Poem Is a Naked Person. Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one of his greatest accomplishments. Yet it has not been released until now.
A Poem Is a Naked Person. Directed by Les Blank • 1974 • United States. Les Blank considered this free-form feature documentary about beloved singer-songwriter Leon Russell, filmed between 1972 and 1974, to be one of his greatest accomplishments.
Mar 29, 2016 · A poem, like a naked person, comes forth without alibis or excuses. It is a high-wire walk without a safety net, and it renounces all special privileges—it must earn its claim on us. The poem in question is, finally, the movie itself, which would have been just as alarmingly naked in 1974 as it was when it was finally released in 2015.
Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person—his 1974 documentary capturing musician Leon Russell’s recordings and performances over a 3-year period—never had an official release during the first four decades of its existence due to legal issues, only showing up at non-commercial, unadvertised screenings with Blank in attendance, his presence ...
Jul 1, 2015 · Whiskery and restless, grooving and grotesque, the documentarian Les Blank's long-suppressed film A Poem Is a Naked Person plays like your memories of some mad, stoned last-century summer.
Jun 30, 2015 · “A Poem Is a Naked Person” is a collaboration between filmmaker and subject, a sprawling, easily distracted jam session in which the camera functions as part of the ensemble. Not...
