Unreleased Leon Russell Documentary “A Poem is a Naked Person” to be Screened at the Ace Hotel on July 8th

Unreleased for over 40 years, Les Blank’s first feature-length documentary captures the eccentric microcosmos of Leon Russell's Oklahoma recording studio during a three year period in the early 70's. The film features concert footage from Austin’s Armadillo World Headquarters and snippets from Hank Wilson's Nashville studio sessions, cameos from a transcendent George Jones, a clean-shaven Willie Nelson and a dust-up with folkie Eric Anderson, plus Blank's signature and visually resplendent footage of an intimate and incantatory America — including Pentecostal churches, hippie weddings and Texas surrealist Jim Franklin feeding a mouse to his pet snake.