If you click on the video below you will see the trailer for a brilliant film, LITTLE CHENIER. Filmed in the Bayous of Louisiana (co-written by Jace Johnson) and featuring Fred Koehler in a brilliant performance reminiscent of the great Charles Laughton in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. A Gothic tale filled with the most beautiful photography, the lilting dialect of the area (so well captured), and also the last views you will ever see of this gorgeous area. Thirty days after filming ended Hurricane Rita struck and totally wiped out this town.
While the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina remains with us Rita was no slouch in the devastation department and this area was never rebuilt.
In the film you will also hear the most beautiful Cajun music and a French version of Amazing Grace (which---you can also hear on TRADITIONS on March 9).
This is a film where the ending should not be revealed---so I won't. But do tune in to TABLETALK on March 16 at 8 A M Eastern Time or listen on the web at http://www.wfdu.fm/.
The film is now playing in only one theater in the NY area--The Quad. Having won numerous awards it will be in wider release shortly.
Just allow yourself to be engulfed by the music and the atmosphere and live once again in a place you will never see again. For good or ill.
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I would advise that course for all view the blog and see the comments. These are usually spam--and, frankly, if one has comment just write it and sign your name.
The anonymity of the internet merely creates people who are like the grafitti painters and stalkers who ply their non productive trade on the sly.
Perhaps I should do a piece on The Almost Daily Rooster on the mistaken idea of celebrating graffitti artists in museums and newspaper..
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Bill Hahn
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