Buena Vista Social Club

DVD - 2017

In 1996, Ry Cooder went to Cuba, rediscovering talents of Cuba's foremost folk musicians, and then making a recording selling millions and earning a Grammy Award. Cooder now returns to Cuba with filmmaker Wim Wenders to reveal the stories, personalities, and music of the performers who collaborated on that recording. Includes live performances in Amsterdam and at Carnegie Hall.

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Subjects
Genres
Documentary films
Concert films
Biographical films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Published
[Irvington, New York] : Criterion Collection [2017]
Language
Spanish
English
Corporate Author
Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group)
Corporate Author
Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group) (performer)
Other Authors
Wim Wenders (film director)
Edition
Director-approved two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; widescreen
Item Description
Originally released in 1999.
Program notes by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro (20 unnumbered pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Special features: audio commentary from 1999 featuring director Wim Wenders; December 2016 interview with Wenders; interview from 1998 interview for the television program Las claves with musician Compay Segundo on his career and the Cuban music scene; radio interviews from 2000 with Eliades Ochoa, Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, Juan de Marcos González, Omara Portuondo, Ibrahim Ferrer, Barbarito Torres, Pío Leyva, Rubén González, Manuel Galbán, and Alberto "Virgilio" Valdés; additional scenes ("Candela," Amsterdam; Alberto Korda's photographs; interview with Juan de Marcos González; "Cienfuegos tiene su guaguancó," EGREM Studios); trailer.
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
Format
DVD; region 1; NTSC; 1.78:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital 5.1 surround.
Production Credits
Editor, Brian Johnson ; director of photography, Jörg Widmer.
ISBN
9781681432847
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

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