Paul Pena Genghis Blues
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 20 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 5, 2000
- Originally Released: 1999
- Label: New Video Group
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Featured: | B.B. King, Roko Belic & Adrian Belic | |
Directed by | Adrian Belic & Roko Belic | |
Screenwriting by | Roko Belic | |
Produced by | Adrian Belic & Roko Belic | |
Director of Photography: | Roko Belic & Adrian Belic |
Entertainment Reviews:
...An enchanting documentary on a magnificent obsession....The story it tells couldn't be more charming...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: A- - Entertainment Weekly Recommends
Entertainment Weekly
...This is the kind of story that has to be true, because no novelist would dare to dream it up....The heart of GENGHIS BLUES is in the music and its singers...
Chicago Sun-Times
...[A] good-hearted, wonderfully revealing film....[It] reminds us music is a universal language that can go a long way toward bridging cultural and linguistic gaps...
New York Times
Product Description:
In 1995, blind bluesman Paul Pena, who has played with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Garcia, and Merl Saunders and wrote the Steve Miller Band hit "Jet Airliner," traveled to Tuva, a small land in Northern Mongolia, with a small film crew and radio DJ Mario Casetta. Pena had become fascinated with the Tuvan practice of harmonic throat singing, in which singers are able to make incredible, almost magical sounds flow from deep in their throats. Pena's tour of the country leads him to the 1995 Throat singing Competition and Symposium, in which he competes in the kargyaa section, and the crowd is thrilled to see an American blues musician throat singing and talking to them in the Tuvan language. Brothers Adrian and Roko Belic document the trip, alternating between scenes of Pena's experiences with the people and shots of the beautiful Tuvan landscape and culture, from lush fields, stunning mountains, and hot deserts to dancing, a form of sumo-like wrestling, and a brutal sheep slaughtering ceremony. This majestic film won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 1999 Academy Awards as well as the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The music in the film is literally incredible and it has to be seen and heard to be believed.
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Product Info
- ISBN: 0767031350
- UPC: 767685947234
- Shipping Weight: 0.31/lbs (approx)
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