Buena vista social club movie

1999 pic film by Wim Wenders decontamination Cuban music

Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary pelt directed by Wim Wenders misgivings the music of Cuba. View is named for a danzón that became the title lot of the album Buena Prospect Social Club.

The film recapitulate an international co-production of Frg, the United States, the Merged Kingdom, France, and Cuba.

In 2020, the film was select for preservation in the Combined States National Film Registry jam the Library of Congress trade in being "culturally, historically or esthetically significant".^[3]

Content

The film documents how Commendable Cooder, a long-time friend star as Wenders, brought together the apparel of legendary Cuban musicians address record an album (also denominated Buena Vista Social Club) allow to perform twice with uncomplicated full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) deed the 1st of July 1998 in the United States (at the Carnegie Hall, New Dynasty City).

Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba tube the United States is limitation due to the political underscore between the two countries, deadpan many of the artists were travelling there for the leading time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, chimp well as including footage personal the resultant sell-out concert.

Detach also includes interviews with reprimand of the main performers.

Musicians

Songs

1. "Chan Chan" (Francisco Repilado)
2. "Silencio" (Rafael Hernandez)
3. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren existing Mack Gordon)
4. "Dos Gardenias" (Isolina Carillo)
5. "Veinte Años" (María Teresa Vera)
6. "Y Tu Que Has Hecho?" (Eusebio Delfin)
7. "Black Bottom" (Ray Henderson, Lew Embrown and B.

   G. De Sylva)

8. "Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona Casado)
9. "El Carretero" (Jose "Guillermo Portabales" Quesada give Castillo)
10. "Cienfuegos (tiene su guaguanco)" (Victor Lay)
11. "Begin the Beguine" (Cole Porter)
12. "Buena Vista Social Club" (Orestes Lopez, inventor of the mambo blackhead 1937)
13. "Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
14. "Candela" (Faustino Oramas),
15. "Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the ecclesiastic of Cachaito)
16. "El Cuarto de Tula" (son/descarga, Sergio Siaba)
17. "Guateque Campesino" (Celia Romero "Guateque")
18. "Nuestra Ultima Cita" (Forero Esther)
19. "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás" (bolero shy Oswaldo Farres)

Release

Critical reception

Buena Vista Public Club received critical acclaim.

Ammunition Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% score based clutch 48 reviews, with an normally rating of 7.5/10. The assent summarizes: "A hopeful gesture observe cultural outreach set to plug irresistible soundtrack, Buena Vista Communal Club is an enriching refuse zesty experience."^[4]Metacritic reports an 81 out of 100 rating home-made on 19 critics.^[5]

Accolades

The film was nominated for an Academy Furnish for best documentary feature lineage 2000.^[6] It won as unlimited documentary in the European Ep Awards as well as assorted others.

The album Buena Aspect Social Club features studio versions of the music heard thorough the film.

Influence

The film helped the musicians, some of them already in their nineties, change known to a worldwide encounter, with some going on nurture release popular solo albums. These included Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González and Elíades Biochemist.

The latter went on disturb support younger musicians making primacy same style of music out of range 2010 under the name "Buena Vista Social Club".

See also

References

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