The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins
Les Blank’s portrait of the great Texas bluesman, ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
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Genre: Documentary, Music, Short
Director: Les Blank
Actors: Lightnin Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb
That’s Sexploitation!
Documentary on popular exploitation sub genre, sexploitation.
Prince of Muck
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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
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Guy Martin vs. The Robot Car
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Stewart
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The Loving Story
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Finding Fela!
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A man at three disparate moments in his life: as a member of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island, alone in the wilderness of Northern Finland and as…