Bright Leaves (2004)
Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.
Watch nowDocumentary
Cast
Where to watch Bright Leaves
Philo, OVID, Cineverse Amazon Channel, Kanopy, Cineverse
More like this
- More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011)
- Naqoyqatsi (2002)
- Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013)
- Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (2017)
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2019)
- I Am Heath Ledger (2017)
- The Mole: Undercover in North Korea (2020)
- The Crystal Calls - Making The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019)
- I Know That Voice (2014)
- 180° South (2010)
- The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
- American Boy: A Profile of Steven Prince (1978)
- Being James Bond (2021)
- Above Majestic (2018)
- Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics (2013)
- Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)
- Beyoncé: Life Is But a Dream (2013)
- Embrace the Panda: Making Turning Red (2022)
- Cameraperson (2016)
- The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends (2019)