Films by Les Blank

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5:24 Dizzie Gillespie (1964) Fliefer 158 views 10 months ago Les Blank's earliest music film focuses on the trumpet player himself, who, along with Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and others sparked the change from Jazz into Bop int h...
3:12 A Well Spent Life (1971) Fliefer 754 views 10 months ago A deeply moving tribute to the Texas songster Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be one of the greatest guitarists of all time.
2:06 Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980) Fliefer 4,795 views 10 months ago In 1979, Les Blank took a detour to film German filmmaker Werner Herzog honoring a vow he made to Errol Morris that he (Herzog) would eat his shoe if Morris ever actually m...
3:53 ChickenRealUpload Fliefer 24 views 10 months ago
3:58 Chulas Fronteras (1979) Fliefer 1,822 views 10 months ago A Les Blank documentary that explores the music of the Texas-Mexican border region.
4:19 J'ai Été Au Bal (I Went to the Ball) (1989) Fliefer 6,297 views 2 years ago "J'ai Été Au Bal is such an infectious music film on Louisiana French and Zydeco music that it's hard to stay seated. . .It is a feast of folkloric scholarship, human histo...
3:03 God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1968) Fliefer 3,419 views 2 years ago "An original rock music score accentuates this film panorama of the action and more meditative moments occurring at Los Angeles' memorable 1967 Easter Sunday Love-In. Earma...
3:30 Puamana (1991) Fliefer 841 views 2 years ago Puamana is a portrait of one of Hawaii's best loved and most prolific songwriters, Irmgard Farden Aluli, Auntie Irmgard, as she is affectionately known. Auntie Irmgard's mo...
2:56 Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart (1987) Fliefer 724 views 2 years ago In Les Blank's film about Serbians in America, he capitalizes on the sensuous elements of the culture — the music, the dance, the food, the parties — and makes the necessar...
4:28 Marc and Ann (1991) Fliefer 10,311 views 2 years ago Marc Savoy and Ann Allen Savoy are an extraordinary Cajun musical couple, and work to promote Cajun culture with equal helpings of passion, humor and talent.

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