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Title Buena Vista Social Club / Road Movies Filmproduktion presents ; a film by Wim Wenders ; a Road Movies production ; in association with Kintop Pictures, Arte, and ICAIC ; produced by Ry Cooder ; produced by Ulrich Felsberg and Deepak Nayar ; directed by Wim Wenders.

Publication Info. [New York, New York] : Criterion Collection, [2017]

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  DVD BUENA DISCS 1-2    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  CRI DVD BUE    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (105 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Playing Time 014500
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in. stamping rda
Description digital optical surround Dolby Digital 5.1 rda
NTSC rda
video file region 1 rda
DVD video
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection ; 866
Criterion collection ; 866.
System Details DVD, NTSC, region 1; widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio); Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Language Spanish and English dialogue; sung in Spanish; with optional English SDH subtitles.
Performer Buena Vista Social Club; featuring Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ry Cooder, Joachim Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Rubén González, Orlando "Cachaíto" López, Amadito Valdés, Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal, Barbarito Torres, Pío Leyva, Manuel "Puntillita" Licea, Juan de Marcos González.
Credits Editor, Brian Johnson ; director of photography, Jörg Widmer.
Note Originally released in 1999.
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.
Note 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.
Contents Disc 1. [Feature film] -- disc 2. [Special features].
Subject Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group)
Popular music -- Cuba -- 1991-2000.
Dance music -- Cuba.
Jazz -- Cuba -- 1991-2000.
Latin jazz -- Cuba.
Musicians -- Cuba -- Havana -- Biography.
Musicians -- Cuba -- Havana -- Interviews.
DVDs.
Música popular -- Cuba.
Música bailable -- Cuba.
Música de jazz -- Cuba.
Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group) (OCoLC)fst01777894
DVDs. (OCoLC)fst00886643
Dance music. (OCoLC)fst00887533
Jazz. (OCoLC)fst00982165
Latin jazz. (OCoLC)fst00993123
Musicians. (OCoLC)fst01030837
Popular music. (OCoLC)fst01071422
Cuba. (OCoLC)fst01205805
Cuba -- Havana. (OCoLC)fst01205198
Chronological Term 1991-2000
Genre/Form DVD-Video discs.
Documentaries and Factual Films (DNLM)D019499
Interview (DNLM)D017203
Biographical films. (OCoLC)fst01710277
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Concert films. (OCoLC)fst01710271
Documentary films. (OCoLC)fst01710390
Feature films. (OCoLC)fst01710384
Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
Video recordings for the hearing impaired. (OCoLC)fst01710450
Concert films.
Documentary films.
Interviews.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Biographical films.
Feature films.
Nonfiction films.
Added Author Wenders, Wim, film director.
Cooder, Ry, film producer, performer.
Felsberg, Ulrich, film producer.
Nayar, Deepak, film producer.
Widmer, Jörg, director of photography.
Segundo, Compay, interviewee, performer.
Ochoa, Eliades, interviewee, performer.
Ferrer, Ibrahim, 1927-2005, interviewee, performer.
Portuondo, Omara, interviewee, performer.
González, Rubén, 1919-2003, interviewee, performer.
López, Orlando, 1933-2009, interviewee, performer.
Valdés, Amadito, interviewee, performer.
Mirabal Vázquez, Manuel, 1933- interviewee, performer.
Torres, Barbarito, interviewee, performer.
Leyva, Pío, interviewee, performer.
Licea, Manuel, 1927-2000, interviewee, performer.
Marcos González, Juan de, interviewee, performer.
Cooder, Joachim, performer.
Johnson, Brian (Film editor), editor of moving image work.
Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group), performer.
Road Movies Filmproduktion, presenter, production company.
Kintop Pictures (Firm), production company.
Association relative à la télévision européenne, production company.
Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográfica, production company.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
ISBN 9781681432847
1681432846
9780715515198
0715515195
Standard No. 715515195812
00715515195812 gtin-14
Music No. CC2747D Criterion Collection
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