Honeydripper
John Sayles celebrates the moment the blues gave birth to rock ‘n’ roll with this affectionate musical drama set in the early fifties. The movie features a solid cast including Danny Glover, Stacy Keach, Mary Steenburgen and Gary Clark Jr. as Sonny Blake, the vagabond guitarist who shakes up the sleepy town of Harmony, Alabama.
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About Michael Schlesinger
Michael Schlesinger is widely acknowledged as the dean of classic film distributors, having worked for more than 25 years at MGM, Paramount and Sony, keeping hundreds of vintage movies in theatrical release (and later DVD), and instigating the restoration of many more, including the completion of Orson Welles' 1942 documentary It's All True some 50 years later. Behind the camera, he wrote and produced the American version of Godzilla 2000, co-produced such Larry Blamire parodies as The Lost Skeleton Returns Again and Dark and Stormy Night, and has written, produced and directed several short films featuring the faux-1930s comedy team of Biffle and Shooster. No power on Earth will ever convince him that It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is not the Greatest. Movie. Ever.
So glad I got to see this in a theatre when it came out, thankfully the programmers at our late, lamented rep house cinema Wormwood’s Dog & Monkey Theatre were big John Sayles fans. The gorgeous production design on the big screen, and the soundtrack played loud … what a treat.