A Poem Is a Naked Person

A free-associative trip through the golden years of rhythm and blues, Les Blank’s long-lost Leon Russell doc unfolds like a southern-fried Almost Famous that’s been stitched together from all of the little observations that a scripted film would leave out. Shot between 1972…

davidehrlich

Swampy, sweaty, and stitched together with pure groove. Less a documentary, more of a vibe. Les Blank films life the way music feels: messy, raw, transcendent.

CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️

Give Americana back to the hippies.

Neill Shaughness

hippies should rule America. As i was watching this, i realised that i was loving it more and more each time. The soundtrack is gold tier, “Take Me” may be one of my favourite songs of all time, no joke. Directors should start making movies like this one again🥹  For all…

dari 𓋹

"I know your image of me is what I hope to be, I've treated you unkindly but can't you see, No one more important to me, Darling can you please see through me, 'Cause we're alone now and I'm singin' this song with you..."

Daniel

☆"I'm here to enjoy people, and Leon Russell also."☆ NOPEtober 2020 Film #30 of 31 Filmed from 1972 to 1974, A Poem is a Naked Person took another four decades to finally be released, what the International Documentary Association once called "perhaps the greatest…

🐱Andrew Chrzanowski🐱

Les Blank poked a camera into the America that exists in songs and album artwork

reilly

Full disclosure: I’m a bit of an ignoramus when it comes to the style of countrified bluegrass honky-tonk Americana(??) that Leon Russell plays. I don’t dislike it; it’s just not the kind of music I tend to throw on. That being said, A Poem Is A Naked Person is a rambling…

JakubM

In this documentary we get a portrait of the musician Leon Russell in concert and the studio, sure, but we also get a portrait of the time and place, one that Les Blank paints so naturally. He seems to let his gaze fall on things which interest him, like the way the clouds…

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