Featuring the stories and music of seminal Cajun musicians "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray Fontenot, Dry Wood is a short, vibrant documentary portrait of life, food, music and festivity in the Louisiana Delta from the singular Les Blank. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
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Satyajit Ray's poetic documentary was commissioned by the Chogyal (King) of Sikkim at a time when he felt the sovereignty of Sikkim was under threat from both China and India.
The Amazon rain forest, 1979. The crew of Fitzcarraldo (1982), a film directed by German director Werner Herzog, soon finds itself with problems related to casting, tribal struggles and accidents, among many other setbacks; but nothing compared to dragging a huge steamboat up a mountain, while Herzog embraces the path of a certain madness to make his vision come true.
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A film by Les Blank and Maureen Gosling. Get entire film here: The featured music in this Les Blank film is that of “Bois ...
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A glimpse into the life food and Mardi Gras celebrations of black Creoles in French Louisiana featuring the stories and music of "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray ...
Dry Wood
A glimpse into the life food and Mardi Gras celebrations of black Creoles in French Louisiana featuring the stories and music of "Bois Sec" Ardoin and Canray ...
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