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Mount Meru: Climbing the Shark’s Fin

This short documentary chronicles the ordeal of three mountain climbers attempting one of the most elusive first ascents in the Himalayas.

Pilot Tex Johnson Performs Barrel Roll of Boeing 707

The Dash-80 was scheduled to perform a simple flyover, but Boeing test pilot Alvin “Tex” Johnston instead performed a barrel roll to show off the jet airliner. The next day, Allen summoned Johnston to his office and told him not…

Werner Herzog on the Work of Documentary Filmmaker Les Blank

From The Criterion Collection, a New York City company that restores, preserves and distributes many of the best films ever made in special edition packages, comes Werner Herzog out of the gate on Les Blank. Herzog, an accomplished filmmaker who…

GENOCRACY

[iframe id=”https://player.vimeo.com/video/132050082″] GENOCRACY focuses on the recent advancements of genetic technologies as well as the socio-political and cultural implications that follow. The private company 23andMe offers a low cost, genetic testing product that markets itself as empowering the individual with…

Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws

In the 1960s, Hunter S. Thompson spent more than a year living and drinking with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club, riding up and down the California coast. What he saw alongside this group of renegades on Harleys, these…

‘A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON’: Documentary on Leon Russell is Finally Released and It’s a Masterpiece

By Gregory Crofton This movie is more about Les Blank and his eye behind the camera than it is about Leon Russell, a long-haired, Kool cigarette-smoking, Rock ‘n’ Soul piano man from Oklahoma. Blank, a highly regarded documentary filmmaker (BURDEN…

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