This film was not officially released in 1974 and shown only at non-profit institutions with Les Blank appearing in person. After Les Blank's death in 2013, Les'son Harrod Blank and Leon Russell came to an agreement to remaster and release the film. Janus Films and Criterion are currently distributing the film in North America.... (Full plot summary below)
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This film was not officially released in 1974 and shown only at non-profit institutions with Les Blank appearing in person. After Les Blank's death in 2013, Les'son Harrod Blank and Leon Russell came to an agreement to remaster and release the film. Janus Films and Criterion are currently distributing the film in North America.
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| NonficsLandon PalmerAnd this is A Poem is a Naked Person's accomplishment: composing a symphonic harmony of seemingly dissociated activities and subjects into one comprehensive, elegantly organized and, yes, even poetic whole. |
| Time OutDavid EhrlichIn the '70s, this would've been an unusually intimate tour portrait. Now, it's a newly unearthed time capsule, the remarkable clarity of Blank's portrait compounded by the distance from which we're looking at it. |
| The SkinnyPhilip ConcannonA glorious time capsule bursting with life. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesShot in the early 70s but shelved for 40 years, this portrait of R&B great Leon Russell (1974) immediately takes its place among the best rock docs. |
| Tulsa WorldMichael SmithA Poem is a Naked Person is a trippy time-capsule celebration of Russell and his music and of Oklahoma and its people. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelRussell embodies history of Southern rock, with roots proudly showing. . .Cultural heritage [as] living, breathing, rocking and rolling inspiration, is wonderfully preserved. |
| Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlWhiskery and restless, grooving and grotesque, the documentarian Les Blank's long-suppressed film A Poem Is a Naked Person plays like your memories of some mad, stoned last-century summer. |
| Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA time capsule capturing the flavor of early-'70s bohemian life in Oklahoma and Texas. |
| VarietyAndrew BarkerEven the less immediately engaging material here helps build an uncannily cohesive snapshot of a very specific time and place, and the past decades have only given it a bittersweet edge. |
| CineVueMatthew AndersonRussell is the magnetic epicentre of a much broader contemplation on the nature of being, creation and self-truth at a time of peace and love. |
