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Spend it All is one of those films that makes you happy that Blank had a camera and decided to walk outside on those days and point it at things. What he captures is so real, so vivid, raw, visceral, and alive. The vibrancy of the people and the palpableness of the subtle wonders of regular things seeps through that gives this film a thick flavor of life in cajun country; richly mingled with horses and livestock, catching crawdads in the creek with your dad, the smell of freshly cut grass, horse races on a dirt track, live radio broadcasts of a local cajun fiddle player, the whiskey flowin a might regular. This is good, country livin’, simple, unfettered and borderline ecstatic.

Blank documents the creole people of Cajun country, Lousiana. They explore the food, go fishin’, shuck shrimp, and have some barn dances. If you haven’t seen it, you ain’t seen nothing like it on film before.

684MB | 43m 16s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/923E1CB074CA2D8/Les_Blank_-_(1971)_Spend_It_All.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/76cec1b4dc27b968928db7413f867ede/Les_Blank_-_(1971)_Spend_It_All.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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Innocents Abroad is a delightful, lighthearted film about forty American tourists visiting ten European countries in a whirlwind two weeks. Globus Gateway Tours allowed Les Blank and his film crew complete and uncensored access to “European Horizons” tour #KH1009A. The tour closely follows the nineteenth century traditional “Grand Tour”, starting in London and visiting Amsterdam, Heidelberg, The Black Forest, Lucerne, Innsbruck, Venince, Rome, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, and Paris. The film chronicles a diverse group of Americans experiencing Europe for the first time, struggling with and laughing about cultural differences, and seeing ancient sites and legendary cities, all led by witty and inimitable Englishman Mark Tinney. For some of the tourists, this is their first venture out into the world; for others, it is the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

Innocents Abroad takes an amusing look at European and American stereotypes of each other and also examines the validity of high speed, high traffic twentieth century mass tourism. It is a glimpse into an important industry which is vital to the European economy, but which has also taken a very real toll on the continent, both culturally and ecologically.

Innocents is not a typical travelogue, but an exploration of the experience of travel, celebrated with Les Blank’s perceptive and unmistakable touch. As with his highly-acclaimed Burden of Dreams and the playful Gap-Toothed Women, he achieves human interest and sociological insight and, at the same time, immensely entertains.

1.63GB | 1h 23m | 706×529 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/41CE625C9283715/Innocents.Abroad.1991.DVDRip.x264.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/CE214936FF7B995/Innocents.Abroad.1991.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/C458BDC10E5EB60/Innocents.Abroad.1991.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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During the 1990s, David Lee Hoffman searched throughout China for the finest teas. He’s a California importer who, as a youth, lived in Asia for years and took tea with the Dali Lama. Hoffman’s mission is to find and bring to the U.S. the best hand picked and hand processed tea. This search takes him directly to farms and engages him with Chinese scientists, business people, and government officials: Hoffman wants tea grown organically without a factory, high-yield mentality. By 2004, Hoffman has seen success: there are farmer’s collectives selling tea, ways to export “boutique tea” from China, and a growing Chinese appreciation for organic farming’s best friend, the earthworm.

1.50GB | 1h 09m | 706×529 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/21B2423C5149891/All.In.This.Tea.2007.DVDRip.x264.mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/B86B70E1E65DA82/All.In.This.Tea.2007.DVDRip.x264.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/99707D5EE08CEBC/All.In.This.Tea.2007.DVDRip.x264.part2.rar

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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“Les Blank made A Poem Is A Naked Person during 1972-74, while living at the Russell/Shelter records recording studio compound on Grand Lake Of The Cherokees in NE Oklahoma. While the film has had few public showings as, apparantly, Mr. Russell is not keen on sharing it with his public.

According to Les’s contract, He is legally able to show his own copy if personally presenting it and a non-profit organization is sponsoring the showing. There are presently no such screenings in the works.

It is feature-length, with appearances by Willy Nelson, George Jones and some amazing characters in Oklahoma, where much of it was shot. At least two major critics have declared it the best film ever made on Rock and Roll.

Les Blank spent nearly two years filming Russell in his studio and environs when he and Denny Cordell were running Shelter Records out of Los Angeles and Tulsa in Russell’s native Oklahoma. Blank’s film “A Poem Is a Naked Person,” which Russell financed, was never released commercially. “I paid for it and I own it but I didn’t care for it,” Russell says. “I’m not sure what the purpose was – it’s not my idea of a documentary. It’s not supposed to be released, but one never knows.”

2.03GB | 1h 30mn | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/7518F522E1AD616/Les_Blank,_A_Poem_Is_A_Naked_Person_(1974)_-_BluRay_576p.mkv

Language:English
Subtitles:English

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The definitive film on the history of the toe-tapping, foot-stomping music of French Southwest Louisiana. Includes many Cajun and Zydeco greats, featuring Michael Doucet and Beausoleil, Clifton Chenier, Marc and Ann Savoy, D.L. Menard, and many others

1.51GB | 1 h 21 min | 710×532 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C50348B5E63B1CB/Jai.ete.au.bal.AKA.I.Went.To.The.Dance.1989.ReRip.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

https://rapidgator.net/file/e0cf41a089db82ef5e31d07493e9c377/Jai.ete.au.bal.AKA.I.Went.To.The.Dance.1989.ReRip.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English hardcoded

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A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth, ranging from lighthearted whimsy to a deeper look at issues like self-esteem and societal attitudes toward standards of beauty. Interviews were conducted with over one hundred women, including model Lauren Hutton and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

494MB | 31mn 13s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/10AAB94F4F7ECDD/Les_Blank_-_%281987%29_Gap-Toothed_Women.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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“Chulas Fronteras” is a documentary about the music of the Mexican community on both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, particularly of migrant farmers. It includes material about the roots of the music, but devotes principal attention to the music as a form of social protest against oppression and racism.

1.28GB | 58 min 29 s | 710×532 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/B6AF3DB85D786A3/Les_Blank,_Chulas_Fronteras_(1976).mkv https://nitro.download/view/0369550680E1BE8/Les_Blank,_Chulas_Fronteras_(1976)_Bonus_Footage.mkv

Language(s):English, Spanish
Subtitles: English (both films have subs, but feature has them hardcoded)

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