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
History
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
History