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WARMING BY THE DEVIL'S FIRE

13-6-09

WARMING BY THE DEVIL'S FIRE - 2003; Vulcan Productions, Inc. - DVD; 106 Min. - MARTIN SCORSESE PRESENTS: THE BLUES .

Charles Burnett explores his own past as a young boy who was shuttled back and forth between Los Angeles and Mississippi, torn between an uncle who loved the blues and a mother who believed that the blues was the devil's music. Burnett's film boldly mixes fictional storytelling with documentary footage of a host of blues legends in a tale about a young boy's encounter with his family in Mississippi in 1955, dramatizing the tensions between the heavenly strains of gospel and the devilish moans of the blues.


Music/Dance
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