The
Soul of a Man - on DVD
Feb 23 2005, in 5.1 Surround Sound
Director Wim Wenders explores the lives of his favourite blues
artists — Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson, and J. B.
Lenoir — in a film that is part history and part personal
pilgrimage. The film tells the story of these artists' lives
in music through a fictional film-within-a-film, rare archival
footage, and covers of their songs by several contemporary
musicians, including Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams, Lou Reed,
and Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds.
Says Wenders: "These songs meant
the world to me. I felt there was more truth in them than
in any book I had read about America, or in any movie I
had ever seen. I've tried to describe, more like a poem
than in a 'documentary,' what moved me so much in their
songs and voices."
Performances in The Soul of a Man
T-Bone Burnett
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Shemekia Copeland
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Alvin Youngblood Hart |
Skip James
Garland Jeffreys
Chris Thomas King
J.B. Lenoir
Los Lobos
John Mayall |
Bonnie Raitt
Lou Reed
Vernon Reid
Marc Ribot
James "Blood" Ulmer
Lucinda Williams
Cassandra Wilson |
DVD Extras Include:
* Five new and extended performances not seen in the film:
- Lou Reed - "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean"
- Cassandra Wilson - "Slow Down"
- Alvin Youngblood Hart - "Mama Talk To Your Daughter"
- Marc Ribot - "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground"
- Chris Thomas King - "Revelations"
* Outtake from the film - Keith Brown - "The Visit
To The Plantation" (silent)
* On-Camera Interview with Wim Wenders
* Director Commentary with Wim Wenders
* Q&A with Wim Wenders
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