DKTR AND CINEFAMILY PRESENTS: A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON WITH LEON RUSSELL IN PERSON
7/8/15
$18 - $35 - The Theatre at Ace Hotel, Los Angeles
Leon Russell and T-Bone Burnett will stick around after the show for an intimate conversation
Parking and Theatre info here.
Unreleased for over 40 years, Les Blank’s first feature-length documentary captures the eccentric microcosmos of Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three year period in the early 70's. The film features concert footage from Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters and snippets from Hank Wilson's Nashville studio sessions, cameos from a transcendent George Jones, a clean-shaven Willie Nelson and a dust-up with folkie Eric Anderson, plus Blank's signature and visually resplendent footage of an intimate and incantatory America — including Pentecostal churches, hippie weddings and Texas surrealist Jim Franklin feeding a mouse to his pet snake.
Blank’s son Harrod brokered an armistice after his father’s passing, and the re-mastered, streamlined result is a revelation. Recently asked at SXSW why he’d kept it out of circulation all these years, the white-haired Russell replied, “I really can’t remember.”
