The Soul of a Man
In "The Soul of A Man," director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of '20s and '30s events - shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James "Blood" Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.
Year: 2003
Genre: Documentary, Music
Studio: Jigsaw Productions
Director: Wim Wenders
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Chris Thomas King, Keith B. Brown, J.B. Lenoir, Skip James, T Bone Burnett
Crew: Mathilde Bonnefoy (Editor), Wim Wenders (Director), Alex Gibney (Producer), Lisa Rinzler (Director of Photography), Paul Marcus (Line Producer), Margaret Bodde (Producer)
Runtime: 103 minutes
Release: May 16, 2003
IMDb: 6.46/10 by 22 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Germany, United States of America
Language: English, Italiano
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Keyword : blues
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