The Soul of a Man

For other uses, see Soul of a Man (disambiguation).

Soul of a Man

Directed by	Wim Wenders
Produced by	Martin Scorsese
Written by	Wim Wenders
Music by	Skip James Blind Willie Johnson J. B. Lenoir
Cinematography	Liza Rinzler
Edited by	Mathilde Bonnefoy
Distributed by	PBS
Release dates	2003
Running time	103 minutes.
Country	United States Germany
Language	English

The Soul of a Man is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Wim Wenders, as the second instalment of the documentary film series The Blues, produced by Martin Scorsese. The film explores the musical careers of blues musicians Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir.

The film is narrated by Laurence Fishburne in character as Blind Willie Johnson, and features performances by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Beck, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, James 'Blood' Ulmer, T-Bone Burnett, Eagle Eye Cherry, Shemekia Copeland, Garland Jeffreys, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Los Lobos, Bonnie Raitt, Lou Reed, Marc Ribot, Lucinda Williams, and Cassandra Wilson. The film won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for Nonfiction Programming, and the Audience Award at the São Paulo International Film Festival. It was also screened out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Soul of a Man". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-11-10.

External links

Information on Wim Wender's official site
Information on the PBS site
The Soul of a Man at the Internet Movie Database
Excerpt of the film (QuickTime, 15 MB) Blind Willie Johnson (played by Chris Thomas King) performs "Trouble (Will) Soon Be Over"
Bransford, Steve. "Gold Records in Deep Space." Southern Spaces, November 3, 2008, http://southernspaces.org/2008/gold-records-deep-space.

Films directed by Wim Wenders

Summer in the City (1970)
The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)
The Scarlet Letter (1973)
Road Movie trilogy
- Alice in the Cities (1974)
- The Wrong Move (1975)
- Kings of the Road (1976)
The American Friend (1977)
Lightning Over Water (1980)
Room 666 (1982)
Hammett (1982)
The State of Things (1982)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Tokyo-Ga (1985)
Wings of Desire (1987)
Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989)
Until the End of the World (1991)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Lisbon Story (1994)
Beyond the Clouds (1995)
A Trick of Light (1995)
The End of Violence (1997)
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
"Twelve Miles to Trona" in Ten Minutes Older (2002)
The Soul of a Man (2003)
Land of Plenty (2004)
Don't Come Knocking (2005)
Palermo Shooting (2008)
"Person to Person" in 8 (2008)
Pina (2011)
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

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