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Buena Vista Social Club
Title:
Buena Vista Social Club
Series Number:
866.
Summary:
In 1996, Ry Cooder went to Cuba, rediscovering talents of Cuba's foremost musicians and making a recording with them that sold millions and earned 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.
General Note:
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.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Geographic Term:
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Publication Date:
2017
ISBN:
9781681432847

0715515195812

9780715515198
Publication Information:
[New York, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2017]
Call Number:
DVD 781.65 BUENA
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