DEEP BLUES
Special Features: Intro by filmmaker Robert Mugge. Mugge and Diana Zelman, his wife and filmmaking partner, will sell/sign copies of his book, "Notes from the Road: A Filmmaker's Journey Through American Music" in the lobby before and after the screening.
In 1990, Dave Stewart of the British band Eurythmics wanted to pay something back to the Mississippi blues artists who had influenced him growing up. He hired Robert Mugge as director and editor, and Robert Palmer as writer and music director, for a documentary film they later shot in Memphis, West Memphis, the Mississippi Delta and the North Mississippi Hill Country, with performances by such soon-to-be-legendary artists as Junior Kimbrough, R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Big Jack Johnson, Jack Owens and Bud Spires, Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes, Lonnie Pitchford and Booker T. Laury. The film, which had its world premiere at the Sydney Film Festival on June 9, 1991, received the following response from Michael Wilmington in The Los Angeles Times: "Robert Mugge's DEEP BLUES is a blues movie no blues lover, no popular music aficionado and no devotee of American culture and folkways should miss. It's a genuine document, deep and earthy; a peek into our national soul." Later, in The Washington Post, Richard Harrington wrote, "Documentary filmmaker Robert Mugge has become the most proficient chronicler of American music. Loaded with performance and history, DEEP BLUES is deep indeed." DIR Robert Mugge; PROD Eileen Gregory, John Stewart. UK, 1991, color, 91 min. NOT RATED
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 91 Minutes
Opening Date: Saturday, November 18, 2023
Genre: Documentary - music
