A Poem Is a Naked Person Full Movie

Andrew Barker 01 Jul 2015

Even the less immediately engaging material here helps build an uncannily cohesive snapshot of a very specific time and place, and the past decades have only given it a bittersweet edge.

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Nora Lee Mandel 11 Jul 2015

Russell embodies history of Southern rock, with roots proudly showing. . .Cultural heritage [as] living, breathing, rocking and rolling inspiration, is wonderfully preserved.

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Peter F 02 Jul 2015

Les Blank's abstract documentary was something truly radical for it's time, and it's easy to see why it's taking the film over 40 years to get a proper release. Rather than simply play as a concert film (although it does at times), Les Blank seems more intrigued to capture the musings of Russel and cohorts, while also getting some really nice shots of nature. Fans of the Maysles brothers will really get a kick out of this.

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Phillip O 19 Aug 2015

If it's a Leon Russell film you want, you might be disappointed. If it's a Les Blank film you want, there's one here fighting to get out. But Blank's one of my all-time faves, and, boy oh boy, are there moments: George Jones knocking out a masterful off-the-cuff "Take Me"; scorpions, snakes eating chicks, demolitions; Charlie McCoy, who played amazing shit on, um, HIGHWAY 61, BLONDE ON BLONDE, & JOHN WESLEY HARDING; the Olympia Brass Band (?); a Socratic inquisition on the nature of paranoia; glass-eating; and Eric Anderson nailing Russell's hustle. Like any Blank film, fascinating, but I've never bought Russell solo (um, who was the other session pianist gone weird vocalist?).

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John DeFore 28 Jun 2015

A time capsule capturing the flavor of early-'70s bohemian life in Oklahoma and Texas.

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