Jim White,
The Handsome Family,
Johnny Dowd,
David Johansen,
Lee Sexton
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Musician and songwriter Jim White acts as a tour guide for this documentary which explores the strange and soulful heart of the American South. As White shares his own story of dealing with the legacy... read more
DVD Release Date: March 14, 2006
Stats: 127 reviews
Documentary, or is it? Well crafted story of the narrator's travels through his deep south, from the bayous of Louisiana to the mountain coal mines in W. VA. Engaging, original music throughout, and a lot of nutty characters he meets along the way.
Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is one of those movie-long non sequiturs where, though one thought does not logically follow another, we know what is meant. Full Review
Douglas has crafted a beautifully shot and edited film that treats its subjects fairly. Full Review
Ultimately, pic feels very much like a romanticized, outsider's view of the South that willfully seeks out the culture's strangest, most weirdo aspects for other outsiders' gleeful delectation. Full Review
While the camera does capture some terrific images of a part of the country that seems to have been stopped in time some decades ago, too often the condescending tone and pretentiousness undercut the ...
Gradually, though, White pushes the film toward significance by encouraging a deeper examination of two primary preoccupations of the region: sin and penance. Full Review
Jim White, the songwriter and hero of alt-country music, conducts a highly selective back-roads tour of the rural Deep South in this richly lyrical documentary. Full Review
The atmosphere that Andrew Douglas' documentary captures so poetically is checkered with rocking Pentecostal churches and abandoned school buses, but you won't encounter any of the smirking condescens... Full Review
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