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Release Date:
6 June 2003 (Italy) morePlot Keywords:
Guitar
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Blues Music
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Musician
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Delta Blues
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Gospel Music
Awards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Wenders's Self-Celebration moreCast
(Credited cast)| Beck | ... | Featured Performer | |
| James Blood Ulmer | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Joy Brashears | ... | Secretary | |
| Keith B. Brown | ... | Skip James | |
| T-Bone Burnett | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Nick Cave | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Eagle Eye Cherry | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Shemekia Copeland | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Laurence Fishburne | ... | Narrator | |
| Garland Jeffreys | ... | Featured Performer | |
| The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Chris Thomas King | ... | Blind Willie Johnson | |
| J.B. Lenoir | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Los Lobos | ... | Featured Performer | |
| John Mayall | ... | Perfomer (archive footage) | |
| Bonnie Raitt | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Lou Reed | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Vernon Reid | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Marc Ribot | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Shayne Tingle | ... | Recording engineer | |
| Lucinda Williams | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Cassandra Wilson | ... | Featured Performer | |
| Alvin Youngblood Hart | ... | Featured Performer |
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Argentina:103 min (Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente)Language:
EnglishCertification:
Australia:M | South Korea:All | Argentina:Atp | Germany:o.Al. | Netherlands:AL | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud)Filming Locations:
Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USAFun Stuff
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This film is deeply disappointing. Not only that Wenders only displays a very limited musical spectrum of Blues, it is his subjective and personal interest in parts of the music he brings on film that make watching and listening absolutely boring. The only highlight of the movie is the interview of a Swedish couple who were befriended with J.B. Lenoir and show their private video footage as well as tell stories. Wenders's introduction of the filmic topic starts off quite interestingly - alluding to world's culture (or actually, American culture) traveling in space, but his limited looks on the theme as well as the neither funny nor utterly fascinating reproduction of stories from the 30s renders this movie as a mere sleeping aid. Yawn. I had expected more of him.