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Always for Pleasure

Movie
1978
58m
English
Documentary
An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live music from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers and more. This glorious, soul-satisfying film is among Blank's special masterworks. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.
Rating
WATCHMODE
7.2
IMDB
Always for Pleasure (1978) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
65

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Kid Thomas Valentine
Self - Band Leader, Trumpet Player
Charles Neville
Self - The Neville Brothers
Directed By: Les Blank

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miguelreina says...
4 years ago
The second-line parade celebrates the arrival of death, but it is a funeral without the dead. Mardi Gras has elements of the dances that the slaves celebrated. They are two faces of the same coin. Freedom is celebrated: that of a path to a perhaps better place and that of brief moments of independence. Les Blank captures the essence of these celebrations in New Orleans, representing music as a meeting between life and death.
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