Always for Pleasure

1978

Documentary / Music

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 60% · 4 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60%
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 627 627

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Plot summary

An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live music from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers and more. This glorious, soul-satisfying film is among Blank's special masterworks. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 1999.

Director

Les Blank Photo
Les Blank

Top cast

Dr. John Photo
Dr. John as Self
Allen Toussaint Photo
Allen Toussaint as Self
Professor Longhair Photo
Professor Longhair as Self
Amos Landry Photo
Amos Landry as Self
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529.23 MB
1280*960
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 57 min
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982.77 MB
1440*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 57 min
Seeds 7

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SnoopyStyle 7 / 10

a place a time for living

It's a slice-of-life documentary of New Orleans. First, it follows a funeral parade with some cooking and a demonstration of how to eat crawfish. There is also a St. Patrick's Day street party and then of course, there is Mardi Gras. This is a perfect good street level documentary and it has the partiest city in America. There is loads of dancing in the streets. You learn to eat crawfish and a bit of black history. It's party time. Laissez les bons temps rouler.
Reviewed by tiffydoodles 10 / 10

Best Doc Ever!

You will be completely transported through time & space, back to La Belle Nouvelle Orleans circa the 70's. The banging beat of Mardis Gras plays in the background as happy faces second line down the street. This documentary shows New Orleans the way it REALLY WAS!!!! Learn all about The Mardis Gras Indians with Big Chief Landry & The Wild Chopitulous, and how not to burn read beans by Irma Thomas. Beautifully shot & completely honest, this film is the most accurate portrayal of a once thriving, unique, beautiful, bewitching city & it's carefree jubilant inhabitants. Watch, you'll have a cry too! Hopefully historians have this film in their archives as evidence to the magic that was, and hopefully one day will be again - New Orleans!
Reviewed by gbill-74877 7 / 10

The wonderful spirit of N'awlins

Not terribly deep as a documentary, but watchable for its images of the beautiful people of New Orleans, their fabulous Mardi Gras costumes, and infectious spirit. Not deep, but then again there's something pretty profound about dancing at a funeral as a catharsis and to honor the dead. There's so much joy here in the face of such pain; we see the historic site of Congo Square where slaves were allowed to dance on Sunday, and it would have been interesting to get at least a glimpse of the present struggles of the community. But that's not what this is about. It's about enjoying life to the full, good times, and continuing traditions. It's a film that made me smile over its 58 minutes, and I wish it was more completely developed, or had other layers.
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