The Heart and the Hips of a City: Films consider New Orleans culture through its groove.


What gives New Orleans music its singular sound and unmatched allure? Many films have addressed this question. Few answer as compellingly as Always for Pleasure, Les Blank’s 1978 love letter of a documentary. As plot, that film follows second-line parades and other processions that run like river currents through city streets, punctuated with private revelations. Trumpeter...

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