FILM SCREENINGS

Warming by the Devil’s Fire

2003. USA. Written and directed by Charles Burnett. With Tommy Redmond Hicks, Nathaniel Lee, Jr. Narrated by Carl Lumbly. Episode 4 from the PBS documentary series The Blues. This history of the blues includes much archival footage of Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, and many others. In Burnett’s hands, it becomes an autobiographical exploration of his own roots in the South. 106 min.