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“Riggs’s film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian’s eye for significant detail, a lyrical sensitivity, and homespun humor. The film, too, serves as a chronicle of people and places of Santa Fe in the early 1930s, when it earned the epithet ‘Greenwich Village of the West.’” – William M. Butler

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An artistic love ode to the town of Santa Fe in the form of a day in the life of this western art community in its creative heyday. Scenes from a time when Santa Fe still had vestiges of the Old West.

A Day in Santa Fe (1931, Lynn Riggs & James Hughes).mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	29 min 55 s
Size: 	570 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	660x480 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	2 437 kb/s
BPP: 	0.321
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 224 kb/s (Music by Neal Kurz)

https://nitro.download/view/8D963B5966F12A6/A_Day_in_Santa_Fe_(1931,_Lynn_Riggs_&_James_Hughes).mkv

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About the film
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In “The Soul of A Man,” director Wim Wenders looks at the dramatic tension in the blues between the sacred and the profane by exploring the music and lives of three of his favorite blues artists: Skip James, Blind Willie Johnson and J. B. Lenoir. Part history, part personal pilgrimage, the film tells the story of these lives in music through an extended fictional film sequence (recreations of ’20s and ’30s events – shot in silent-film, hand-crank style), rare archival footage, present-day documentary scenes and covers of their songs by contemporary musicians such as Shemekia Copeland, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Garland Jeffreys, Chris Thomas King, Cassandra Wilson, Nick Cave, Los Lobos, Eagle Eye Cherry, Vernon Reid, James “Blood” Ulmer, Lou Reed, Bonnie Raitt, Marc Ribot, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Lucinda Williams and T-Bone Burnett.

Says Wenders: “These songs meant the world to me. I felt there was more truth in them than in any book I had read about America, or in any movie I had ever seen. I’ve tried to describe, more like a poem than in a ‘documentary,’ what moved me so much in their songs and voices.”

The documentary is the first in a seven-part series called “The Blues,” which features films by Mike Figgis, Charles Burnett, Clint Eastwood, Marc Levin, Richard Pearce and Martin Scorsese (who also executive produced the series) and will air on TV in the U.S. this fall.
Indie Wire; Cannes Film Festival site

1.11GB | 1h 39m | 672×368 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/1751B9241E2BA36/Wim_Wenders_-_the_soul_of_a_man_(2003).avi

Language:English
Subtitles:None

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