The Soul of a Man
16/05/2003
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.
Movie Information
Laurence Fishburne
as Self - Narrator
Chris Thomas King
as Blind Willie Johnson
Keith B. Brown
as Skip James
J.B. Lenoir
as Self (archive footage)
Skip James
as Self (archive footage)
T Bone Burnett
as Self
John Mayall
as Self (archive footage)
Lucinda Williams
as Self
Bonnie Raitt
as Self
Marc Ribot
as Self
Cassandra Wilson
as Self
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