The Blues Brothers

Director: John Landis
Starring: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Carrie Fisher, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, James Brown, Can Calloway
Runtime: 133’
Year of Production: 1980

Two delinquent musician brothers, one of whom has just been released from prison, are on a mission from God: to reunite their old blues band in order to raise the money they need in order to save the orphanage where they grew up. This is the absolutely elementary script occasion for John Landis to fabricate hilarious, extremely comic musical sketches in the form of a movie, as if "The Blues Brothers" were the most successful episode of “Saturday Night Live” never shot.

From the delirium car chase in the finale, the image of Carrie Fisher with the rocket launcher in hand, James Brown and Ray Charles summoning the audience voluptuously in a frantic disorder and, of course, A-R-E-T-H-A to the effortless coolness of John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the list of unforgettable moments would never end if we tried to make one. The film defies any notion of physical wear, any suspicion of fatigue and often every expectation of the audience, delivering one display of greatness after the other to a truly rare sample of pure, immaculate, impeccably entertaining gift in film. John Landis was, clearly, on a mission from God when he was making this movie. Thodoris Dimitropoulos

Ιn collaboration with the Region of South Aegean and the Municipality of Serifos