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Always for Pleasure (1978)

Director: Les Blank

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From Time Out Film Guide

Les Blank continues to map the USA's rich heritage of regional cultures, bringing to New Orleans street parades, jazz funerals, and the Mardi Gras itself, the same kind of effusively enthusiastic documentary sensibility that has turned portraits of the lifestyles surrounding blues, Cajun, and Tex-Mex music into full-blooded celebrations. Good-time film-making, ethnography with rhythm: the title says all you need to know about Blank's unique movie on the tributaries of rock'n'roll.

Author: PT 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Cast & crew

Director: Les Blank

Cast: 'Blue Lu' Barker, Longhair Kid Thomas Valentine, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Wild Tchoupitoulas, Neville Brothers

Genre(s): Documentaries

Duration: 58 mins


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