Dinner & A Movie: Les Blank Collection Sun, June 22

Start: Sunday, June 22, 2025 5:30PM
End: Sunday, June 22, 2025 9:00PM

Dinner & A Movie Les Blank Collection Sun, June 22 Dinner 5:30 Movie 7:00 Dinner: Expect copious amounts of garlic, mudbugs, red beans, dirty rice, bread pudding & more to shape this tribute to the delicious foods of New Orleans, chronicled by one of America’s greatest documentary filmmakers. Film: Three Les Blank films comprise this dinner.. Always For Pleasure (1978): Blank’s raucous tribute to the sights, sounds, and flavors of New Orleans is perhaps his most sustained representation of pure joy. Yum, Yum, Yum! A Taste of Cajun and Creole Cooking (1990): Les Blank marries his passion for spicy, down home food and his love for Cajuns and Creoles in this mouth-watering, exploration of the cooking, and other enthusiasms, of French-speaking Louisiana. Features tangy music, and food by Marc Savoy, Paul Prudhomme, and other greats. Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1980): As a result of a lost bet with his assistant, Errol Morris, director Werner Herzog must eat his own shoe. Menu subject to change based on seasonal availability of ingredients.