This 37-minute retrospective documentary provides a pretty engrossing and illuminating portrait on the making of the Leon Russell documentary "A Poem Is a Naked Person" by Les Blank. Among the things we find out are that Blank was specifically hired by Russell to make the documentary, Blank lived on a houseboat during the making of the film, Blank's son Harrod did drawings of Russell with sharpie pens, Blank had two assistant cameramen for the concert and recording sessions, and that Russell was initially dissatisfied with the documentary because he thought he wasn't in it enough. Moreover, Harrod Blank points out that Russell really bared himself and made himself quite vulnerable as a person in the documentary, which was probably another reason why Russell was originally reluctant about giving the documentary a wide release. Worth a watch.
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