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1. The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970)
Not Rated | 31 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Mance Lipscomb, Ruth Ames
Votes: 650
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
2. God Respects Us When We Work, But Loves Us When We Dance (1968)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Documentation of 1967 Los Angeles Easter Sunday Love-In.
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Star: Ken Patterson
Votes: 291
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
3. The Sun's Gonna Shine (2014)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A lyrical recreation of Lightnin' Hopkins' decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank's stunning and ... See full summary »
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Stars: Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Bizor, Wendell Anderson
Votes: 148
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
4. Mr. Charlie, Your Rollin' Mill Is Burnin' Down (1969)
8 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Director: Les Blank | Star: Lightnin Hopkins
Votes: 43
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
5. Lightnin' Les (1969)
4 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Hopkins made up this song and performed it for Les Blank after deciding to make the documentary The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins.
Director: Les Blank | Star: Lightnin Hopkins
Votes: 40
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
6. Spend It All (1972)
Not Rated | 41 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Portrait of the Cajun lifestyle in Southwest Louisiana.
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Stars: Nathan Abshire, Glenn Allensan, Savy Augustine, Dewey Balfa
Votes: 306
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
7. A Well-Spent Life (1971)
Not Rated | 44 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A deeply moving tribute to the Texas songster, Mance Lipscomb, considered by many to be the greatest guitarist of all time.
Directors: Les Blank, Skip Gerson | Stars: Mance Lipscomb, Elnora Lipscomb, Hattie Franklin, Alfred Franklin
Votes: 410
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
8. Dry Wood (1973)
Not Rated | 37 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A portrait of black Creole life in the Louisiana Delta, accompanied by the hot sounds of Zydeco music.
Directors: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling | Stars: Alphonse Ardoin, Gustave Ardoin, Morris Ardoin, Lawrence Ardoin
Votes: 224
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
9. Sprout Wings and Fly (1983)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A documentary about Tommy Jarrell, a fiddler from North Carolina. This films shows a bit of his current life and those around him and includes a lot of his Appalachian Old-Time music.
Directors: Les Blank, Cece Conway, Alice Gerrard | Stars: Tommy Jarrell, Julie Jarrell Lyons, Togie McGee, Edith Hicks
Votes: 217
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
10. Lagniappe (2006)
25 min | Documentary, Short, Music
Additional footage shot during the making of the 1978 documentary "Always For Pleasure".
Directors: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling | Stars: Art Ryder's Electric Street Band, Danny Barker, Blue Lu Barker, Henry 'Professor Longhair' Byrd
Votes: 26
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
11. Safeguarding Military Information (1942)
9 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary short depicting the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of secret military information, showing the unintended and disastrous results of careless conversation and improper maintenance of secret records.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ian Hunter, Walter Huston, Ginger Rogers
Votes: 112
The Palm Beach Story
12. My Old Fiddle: A Visit with Tommy Jarrell in the Blue Ridge (1995)
18 min | Documentary, Short, Music
The long-awaited sequel to Sprout Wings and Fly is a gentle celebration of mountain living, a once-thriving American way of life.
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Tommy Jarrell, Julie Jarrell Lyons
Votes: 52
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
13. Julie: Old Time Tales of the Blue Ridge (1991)
12 min | Documentary, Short
80-year-old Julie Lyon, sister of Old Time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, lights up this gem of a film as she spins tales of her Appalachian childhood in North Carolina - and her first romance. Color. 11 minutes. 1983/1991.
Director: Les Blank | Star: Julie Jarrell Lyons
Votes: 56
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
14. Gap-Toothed Women (1987)
Not Rated | 31 min | Short, Documentary
A charming valentine to women born with a space between their teeth.
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Teresa Peacock, Sherry Dorst, Tobe Melora Correal, Susie Bruder
Votes: 329
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
15. Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of the Cajun and Creole Cooking of Louisiana (1990)
Not Rated | 31 min | Documentary, Short
"Les Blank marries his passion for spicy, down home food and his love for Cajuns and Creoles in this mouth-watering, exploration of the cooking, and other enthusiasms, of French-speaking ... See full summary »
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, Margaret Chenier, Ida Guillory
Votes: 226
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
16. Sworn to the Drum: A Tribute to Francisco Aguabella (1995)
Not Rated | 35 min | Documentary, Short, Music
A documentary about the music and influence that Francisco Aguabella has had on the world.
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Bill Graham, Francisco Aguabella, John Santos, Carlos 'Patato' Valdés
Votes: 107
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
17. The Maestro Rides Again! (2005)
30 min | Documentary, Short
A follow-up to Blank's "The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists". Les Blank continued filming the Maestro after the original film was completed.
Director: Les Blank | Stars: Gerald Gaxiola, Butch Anthony, Harrod Blank, Emily Duffy
Votes: 43
Les Blank: Always for Pleasure set
18. Six Men Getting Sick (1966)
4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A short continuously looping animation of six grotesque human figures vomiting.
Director: David Lynch
Votes: 5,482
Eraserhead set
19. The Alphabet (1969)
4 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter.
Director: David Lynch | Star: Peggy Lynch
Votes: 7,075
Eraserhead set
20. The Grandmother (1970)
Not Rated | 34 min | Animation, Short, Horror
A young boy plants some strange seeds and they grow into a grandmother.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Dorothy McGinnis, Richard White, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick
Votes: 6,233
Eraserhead set
21. The Amputee (1974)
9 min | Short, Comedy
A double leg amputated woman sits and writes a long meandering letter while her ineffective nurse attempts to attend to her stumps.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Catherine E. Coulson, David Lynch
Votes: 4,204
Eraserhead set
22.
The French as Seen by... (1988– )
Episode:
The Cowboy and the Frenchman
(1988)
26 min | Comedy, Drama
Little seen short film by David Lynch is set on a ranch in the turn-of-the-20th Century Wild West, USA and is a collision of cultures.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Harry Dean Stanton, Frederic Golchan, Jack Nance, Tracey Walter
Votes: 941
Eraserhead set
23. Out in the Woods (II) (2016 Video)
13 min | Short
Moments shot during the filming of Les Blank's A Poem Is a Naked Person, overlaid with Maureen Gosling's letters home.
Director: Maureen Gosling | Stars: Les Blank, Maureen Gosling, Leon Russell, Ambrose Campbell
Votes: 10
24. Neighbors (1920)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jack Duffy, The Flying Escalantes
Votes: 3,757
25. The Balloonatic (1923)
G | 22 min | Short, Comedy
A hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Phyllis Haver, Babe London
Votes: 2,648
26. The Scarecrow (1920)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short, Family
Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Luke the Dog, Joe Keaton
Votes: 3,641
27. The Paleface (1922)
G | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Votes: 2,702
28. The Goat (1921)
Not Rated | 23 min | Comedy, Short
A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair
Votes: 3,853
29. My Wife's Relations (1922)
25 min | Short, Comedy
By accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Monte Collins, Wheezer Dell
Votes: 1,910
30. The Boat (1921)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely
Votes: 2,933
31. The Love Nest (1923)
Unrated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
Directors: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline | Stars: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox, Steve Murphy
Votes: 2,044
32. Convict 13 (1920)
Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Votes: 2,786
33. Daydreams (1922)
Not Rated | 28 min | Short, Comedy
A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton
Votes: 2,166
34. Hard Luck (1921)
22 min | Short, Comedy
Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Bull Montana
Votes: 2,007
35. The Blacksmith (1922)
21 min | Comedy, Short
Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Votes: 2,391
36. The Electric House (1922)
TV-G | 23 min | Short, Comedy
After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton, Louise Keaton
Votes: 2,447
37. The Haunted House (1921)
Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Votes: 2,665
38. The Frozen North (1922)
Unrated | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Western
Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Bonnie Hill
Votes: 1,875
39. The Play House (1921)
23 min | Short, Comedy, Fantasy
After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Monte Collins, Virginia Fox
Votes: 3,779
40. Cops (1922)
Unrated | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox, Steve Murphy
Votes: 5,720
41. The 'High Sign' (1921)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Ingram B. Pickett
Votes: 2,636
42. One Week (1920)
TV-G | 25 min | Short, Comedy
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Votes: 7,108
43. Allez Oop! (1934)
Not Rated | 21 min | Short, Comedy
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, George J. Lewis, Harry Myers
Votes: 268
44. Jail Bait (1937)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Buster Keaton, Harold Goodwin, Matthew Betz, Bud Jamison
Votes: 248
45. Emotion (1966)
39 min | Fantasy, Short
Experimental short film depicting the life, perhaps real, perhaps a dream, of a young girl named Emi. Emi travels to the city where she encounters her counterpart, Sari, and falls in love with...a vampire?
Director: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi | Stars: Sari Akasaka, Kyôko Hanyû, Sakio Hirata, Jinichi Isizaki
Votes: 546
46. Les 3 boutons (2015)
11 min | Short
A 14-year-old girl opens a package containing a magical magenta ball dress ten times her teenage size. Jasmine enters the folds of the dress, into a modern anti-fairy tale and everyday empowerment.
Director: Agnès Varda | Stars: Jasmine Thiré, Michel Jeannès, Jacky Patin, Léon Mézard
Votes: 273