My good friend Les Blank, who in my view is one of America's best documentary filmmakers, turned 74 on Friday.
Blank is known for making films about the film-making process as well as docs which focus on either a music genre or a specific musician like the late blues legend Lightning Hopkins who was the subject of a film that Blank made.
He is best known for his film "Burden of Dreams" (1982) about the making of the epic Werner Herzog film "Fitzcarraldo," which is perhaps the most difficult film title to spell (we double-checked it here in fact). The German film was filmed in the Amazon jungles of Peru and many things went wrong on the set, including a plot by some natives to actually kill the film's star Klaus Kinski!
Other Blank films include "Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe" (1980), "Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers" (1980), "In Heaven, There Is No Beer?" (1984), "Gap-Toothed Women" (1987) and his most recent film "All This Tea" (2007).
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