Directed by: Les Blank
Year: 1968-1995
Time: 564 total min.
 
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 737
Release Date: November 25 2014
MSRP: $124.95
 
Blu-ray
3 Discs | BD-50
1.33:1 ratio
English 1.0 PCM Mono
English 2.0 PCM Stereo
Subtitles: English
Region A
 
 Excerpt from Les Blank: A Quiet Revelation, a film project by Harrod Blank and Gina Leibrecht   New interviews with Blank’s sons, Harrod Blank and Beau Blank; Blank documentary subject Gerald Gaxiola (a.k.a. the Maestro); Blank’s friends and collaborators Skip Gerson, Maureen Gosling, Taylor Hackford, Werner Herzog, Susan Kell, Tom Luddy, David Silberberg, and Chris Simon; and chef and author Alice Waters   Related shorts by Blank: The Sun's Gonna Shine (1968), More Fess (1978), Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991), My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1994), and The Maestro Rides Again (2005)   Two outtake performances from The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins   A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Andrew Horton