A legendary Director is recorded while filming an ambitious feature in Director Les Blank’s 1982 documentary, Burden of Dreams. Burden of Dreams follows Director Werner Herzog and his cast and crew as ...

Filmmaker Les Blank might be best known for his documentary portraits of American musicians, but many critics believe his masterpiece is Burden of Dreams, which catalogued the filming of Werner Herzog ...

Documentary filmmaker Les Blank died in his Berkeley home Sunday after a yearlong fight with cancer. He was 77. Blank was known for his films on American food and music and produced 42 films in a ...

PORTLAND, Ore (KOIN)- We are celebrating Documentary Week this week on Everyday Northwest. Tonight, the Clinton Street Theater welcomes viewers to experience Creole culture through a screening of two ...

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.

“With the international membership now representing more than 20 percent of the total voters, this year all five documentary nominees were international,” Thompson wrote, tying the trend to numerous ...

REUTERS - Filmmaker Les Blank, whose documentaries explored U.S. jazz, polka and Cajun music and also delved into more eccentric subjects including gap-toothed women and Chinese tea, died on Sunday, ...

Documentary filmmaker Les Blank, known for highly personal docus such as “Burden of Dreams” and “Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers,” died Sunday at his home in Berkeley, Calif., according to the New ...

Sixty-one years ago, celebrated Berkeley director Les Blank ventured into the Mojave with a camera, two rolls of Ektachrome film and his best friend, Scientologist-slash-motorcyclist Captain Bill ...

Ogden Museum of Southern Art, 925 Camp St., 569-9600; www.ogdenmuseum.org General admission $10, free for Ogden members Music and food. These twin themes characterize the work of celebrated ...

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.