WHEREAS, Les Blank was born in Tampa, Florida and attended Tulane University where he played football and has lived in Berkeley for more than 35 years, making independent documentary films, and ...

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Les Blank, the poetic documentary filmmaker who gave voice to the obscure and gap-toothed, died Sunday at his home in the Berkeley hills. He was 77 and the cause of death was bladder cancer, said his ...

Les Blank died on Sunday. The 77-year-old documentary film maker blazed a mark on his genre with his quirky, offbeat and poetic vision — one that suited him for life in Berkeley where he made his home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "Motorcycle Moment," a posthumous film by the Bay Area director Les Blank, is a time capsule of 1960s motorcycle culture. (Les ...

An image from filmmaker Les Blank's New Orleans documentary 'Always for Pleasure.' Blank's film, which focuses on the city's parade-happy ways, is one of 14 of Blank's films included in the new box ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — Les Blank, an acclaimed documentary maker who focused his camera on cultural corners ranging from blues music, to garlic lovers, to shoe-eating artists, died Sunday at age 77, his ...

Filmmaker Les Blank, known for his documentary depictions of American music and food, died in his Berkeley, Calif., home Sunday of bladder cancer, his family said. Blank was surrounded by his family ...

Who or what is Les Blank? A documentarian, but more than that. An impish, robustly bearded Pan figure, glimpsed occasionally in the forests of Marin County and at less pretentious film festivals. A ...

Les Blank is probably best known for his 20-minute film, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe. The filmmaker made dozens of documentaries, however, about people, places, food and especially music. He made ...

When Les Blank arrived in the lush, untamed Amazon in 1981 to make a documentary about Werner Herzog’s film, “Fitzcarraldo,” he knew the German’s reputation as a daredevil director. Herzog had chosen ...