Title: Buena Vista Social Club (Criterion Collection)
Format: Blu-ray
Label: Criterion Collection
Genre: Music Video (Concert/Performance), Special Interest-Documentary
UPC: 715515195713
Release Date: 2017
Traveling from the streets of Havana to the stage of Carnegie Hall, this revelatory documentary captures a forgotten generation of Cuba’s brightest musical talents as they enjoy an unexpected brush with world fame. The veteran vocalists and instrumentalists collaborated with American guitarist and roots-music champion Ry Cooder to form the Buena Vista Social Club, playing a jazz-inflected mix of cha-cha, mambo, bolero, and other traditional Latin American styles, and recording an album that won a Grammy and made them an international phenomenon. In the wake of this success, director Wim Wenders filmed the ensemble’s members—including golden-voiced Ibrahim Ferrer and piano virtuoso Rubén González—in a series of illuminating interviews and live performances. The result is one of the most beloved music documentaries of the 1990s, and an infectious ode to a neglected corner of Cuba’s prerevolutionary heritage.
PLUS: An essay by author and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro"
GENRE: Documentary
LANGUAGE: Spanish, English
English Subtitles
AUDIO: 5.1 Surround DTS-HD Master Audio
COLOR
TIME: 105 Minutes
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