How To Smell A Rose: A Visit with Ricky Leacock at his Farm in Normandy (2014)
• August 31st, 2014 • 1h 5min
Documentary
Overview
In the year 2000, Les Blank, along with co-filmmaker Gina Leibrecht, visited Richard Leacock (1921-2011) at his farm in Normandy, France and recorded conversations with him about his life, his work, and his other passion: cooking! With the flair of a seasoned raconteur, Leacock recounts key moments in his seventy years as a filmmaker and the innovations that he, D.A. Pennebaker, Albert Maysles and others invented that revolutionized documentary filmmaking, and explores the mystery of creativity. With the passing of both Blank and Leacock, the documentary is a moving insight into the lives of two seminal figures in the history of film.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Who's Afraid of the Bogeyman
Released on: 1989-11-01
Documentary
Portrait of a private coal company in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district in 1988/89. The feisty ...
Tango Dream
Released on: 1985-12-12
Documentary
Sitting at her typewriter, listening to tango music, she dreams. Buenos Aires and Montevideo are far...
Butch Jamie
Released on: 2008-11-18
Comedy, Documentary, Romance
The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a ...
Election Day
Released on: 2007-03-10
Documentary
Forget the pie charts, color-coded maps and hyperventilating pundits. What's the street-level experi...
Alone
Released on: 2017-01-14
Documentary
This investigation into the layers of mass incarceration and its shaping of the modern black America...
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Released on: 2006-10-27
Music, Documentary
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
Released on: 2004-04-23
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda ...
The Pixar Shorts: A Short History
Released on: 2007-11-06
Animation, Family, Documentary
The story of Pixar's early short films illuminates not only the evolution of the company but also th...
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Released on: 1991-11-27
Documentary
A chronicle of the production problems — including bad weather, actors' health, war near the filming...
Misconception
Released on: 2014-04-21
Documentary
For almost 50 years, the world's population has grown at an alarming rate, raising fears about strai...
Art and Craft
Released on: 2014-09-19
Documentary
For several decades, gifted and incredibly prolific forger Mark Landis compulsively created impeccab...
I Want to See
Released on: 2008-05-16
Documentary, Drama, History
July 2006. Another war breaks out in Lebanon. The directors decide to follow a movie star, Catherine...
Visions of Europe
Released on: 2004-05-01
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
The Yes Men
Released on: 2003-09-07
Comedy, Documentary
A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they ga...
Prisoner
Released on: 2017-08-10
Documentary
While working at Uruguay's largest prison construction site, Miguel is leading a double life. When h...
The 11th Hour
Released on: 2007-08-17
Documentary, Drama, Crime
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...
You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know...
Released on: 1986-08-27
Documentary
Short directed by Agnès Varda in 1986 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the French Cinemath...
There's Something in the Water
Released on: 2019-09-06
Documentary
Elliot Page brings attention to the injustices and injuries caused by environmental racism in his ho...
The Ringleader: The Case of the Bling Ring
Released on: 2023-10-01
Documentary, Crime
In a candid, first-time interview with Rachel Lee, the so-called teenage mastermind behind a string ...
Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community
Released on: 1983-07-13
Documentary
This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Cove...