How to Smell a Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock in Normandy
Release Date: August 12, 2015 (limited)
Studio: Film Forum
Directors: Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriter: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Starring: Ricky Leacock, Valerie Lalonde
Plot Summary: Ricky Leacock, Al Maysles, Robert Gardner, Robert Drew, Les Blank: the generation that invented cinema verité and gave us a plethora of brilliant documentaries is passing away. Les Blank’s warm and moving portrait of Leacock and partner Valerie Lalonde in France includes marvelous clips of Leacock’s movies, including his earliest film, "Canary Bananas," made at age 14 on his father’s Canary Island plantation. Leacock is as charismatic recalling his cinematic triumphs (shooting Flaherty’s "Louisiana Story," filming Leonard Bernstein in Israel), as he is explaining why he quit drinking or quoting Escoffier on the making of a perfect bouillon.
Release Date: August 12, 2015 (limited)
Studio: Film Forum
Directors: Les Blank, Gina Leibrecht
MPAA Rating: N/A
Screenwriter: N/A
Genre: Documentary
Starring: Ricky Leacock, Valerie Lalonde
Plot Summary: Ricky Leacock, Al Maysles, Robert Gardner, Robert Drew, Les Blank: the generation that invented cinema verité and gave us a plethora of brilliant documentaries is passing away. Les Blank’s warm and moving portrait of Leacock and partner Valerie Lalonde in France includes marvelous clips of Leacock’s movies, including his earliest film, "Canary Bananas," made at age 14 on his father’s Canary Island plantation. Leacock is as charismatic recalling his cinematic triumphs (shooting Flaherty’s "Louisiana Story," filming Leonard Bernstein in Israel), as he is explaining why he quit drinking or quoting Escoffier on the making of a perfect bouillon.
