Chapter
9: Movies and documentaries
THE
SOUL OF A MAN ("Soul of a Man")
In The Soul
of a Man, filmmaker Wim Wenders examines the dramatic tension of Blues, between
the sacred and the profane, to explore the life and music of three of your
favorite artists of Blues: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and JB Lenoir.
With a
share of historical and other personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of
these lives music, through an extensive sequence of fiction, a rare archive
pictures, documentaries and current reproduction of their songs by contemporary
artists such as: Shemekia Copeland, Garland Jeffreys, Nick Cave, Los Lobos,
Eagle-Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James Blood Ulmer, Lou Red, Bonnie Raitt, Marc
Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T Bone Burnett.
Wender
explains: "These songs have great meaning to me. I feel that there is more
truth in any of them than in any book I read about America, or any movie you've
seen. Tried to describe, more like a poem that as a documentary, what struck me
most in their songs and voices”
THE
WAY OF MEMPHIS ("Road to Memphis")
The
Filmmaker Richard Pearce traces the musical odyssey of the great legend of
Blues, BB King, a film that is a tribute to the birthplace of a new style of
Blues. Pearce also leads us down the road to the backstage of Blues, with
veterans of Memphis, Bobby Rush and Rosco Gordon. A tribute to the Memphis
Pearce presents original performances by BB King, Bobby Rush, Rosco Gordon, Ike
Turner, Rev. Gatemouth Moore and Little Milton, and includes a sequence of
archival footage of Howlin 'Wolf, BB King, Rufus Thomas, Little Richard, Fats
Domino, The Coasters, among others.
Pearce
explains: "The Blues are a chance to celebrate one of the most primitive
forms of American art before everything disappears absorbed in their entirety,
by the generation of Rock 'n' Roll. Luckily we arrived before it was too
late."
HEATED
BY THE DEVIL'S FIRE ("Warming by the Devil's Fire")
Charles
Burnett explores his own past as a young man who moves from one side to the
other, between Los Angeles and Mississippi, swinging between an uncle who loves
the Blues and a mother who believes the Blues music of the devil. Burnett's
film makes a bold mixture of imaginary histories with documentary images of a
host of legends of Blues, a story about the reunion of a young man with his
family in Mississippi in 1955, dramatizing the tensions between the gospel and
spiritual trend the diabolical lamentations of Blues.
Burnett
explains: "The sound of the Blues was a part of my environment, I accepted
as true. Nevertheless, over the years, the
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