The End of All Music presents Les Blank’s “Always for Pleasure”
One Night Only Film Screening
Wednesday, August 6th
Doors 6:30 / Movie 7 p.m. (sharp!)
New Orleans dinner served by Chicory Market (red beans & rice, jambalaya, slaw, cornbread, chocolate cake)
All Ages. Good dogs welcome.
Bring a lawn chair.
We’ll be starting the night off with a screening of Les Blank’s short film, “The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins.”
Total running time for both films: 1.5 hrs.
Ticket options:
1) Movie Only Ticket $8
2) Dinner & Movie Ticket $22
About Always for Pleasure:
Les Blank’s celebration of the spirit and social traditions of New Orleans, featuring Mardi Gras and St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. It is an intense insider’s portrait of New Orleans’ street celebrations and the unique cultural gumbo of Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, and the Jazz Fest. The film features live music by Professor Longhair, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers, Allen Toussaint, Kid Thomas Valentine and more. This glorious, soul-satisfying film is among Blank’s special masterworks.
About The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins:
The great Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins is captured brilliantly in this deeply moving film. Blank reveals Lightnin’s inspiration, and features a generous helping of classic blues. The film includes performances at an outdoor barbeque and a black rodeo, and a visit to his boyhood town of Centerville, Texas. This powerful portrait is among Blank’s special masterworks. Filmed in 1968.
A master of movies about the American idiom… one of our most original filmmakers.” – New York Times
Blank is a documentarian of folk cultures who transforms anthropology into art.” – New York Times
A brilliant filmmaker” – Roger Ebert
“I can’t believe that anyone interested in movies or America…could watch Blank’s work without feeling they’d been granted a casual, soft-spoken revelation.” – Time Magazine
