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Les Blank

American documentary filmmaker

0.77body-of-work score · ranked #1022 of 2631 directors · 4 films in our library

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Born
November 27, 1935
Died
April 7, 2013 · Berkeley
Nationality
United States
Work
documentary filmmaker, film producer, film director, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Les Blank
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Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    Chulas Fronteras

    1976 · United States · documentary

    National Film Registry (inducted 1993)

    0.231 citation
  2. 2
    Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers

    1980 · United States · documentary

    National Film Registry (inducted 2004)

    0.231 citation
  3. 3
    A Poem Is A Naked Person

    1974 · United States · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #805

    0.161 citation
  4. 4
    Burden of Dreams

    1982 · United States · documentary

    Criterion Collection spine #287

    0.161 citation

Complete filmography

All 15 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.