Film Festival: Summertime Blues Time to join William Faulkner on the veranda with a washtub full of cold beers icing down in the corner, on a long, hot summer’s day. “Hey. I never move and work in the same day.”—Ben When I think of summer in the South, I inevitably think of William Faulkner and…
1958
Lisa’s Home Bijou: “St. Louis Blues”
Film Festival: Summertime Blues Although his exact place in the pantheon of blues greats is debated, W. C. Handy was important for his early role in the popularization and publishing of the blues. “St. Louis Blues” is the 1958 Hollywood version of Handy’s life, formulated as a vehicle for the music as opposed to an…