April 23, 2020 – Paris Blues (1961) Criterion Channel
Paris Blues is the story of two American Jazz musicians, Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier, and the two visiting American tourists, Joanne Woodward and Diahann Carroll, who they fall in love with. It is a charming but slight movie. The most memorable part of Paris Blues is the music, composed and performed (off-camera) by Duke Ellington with a guest appearance (in the soundtrack and on-camera) by Louis Armstrong. This is the third movie about jazz (also: A Song is Born and Chico and Rita) and the second movie directed by Martin Ritt (also: The Spy Who Came In From The Cold) I have watched since the pandemic started.
I would write more, but I have to shed my identity as Lee Winkelman, mild-mannered community organizer and blogger, and take up my secret identity as Sisyphus the dishwasher.
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