- Buena Vista Social Club (film)
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name =Buena Vista Social Club
caption =
director =Wim Wenders
producer =Rosa Bosch Ulrich Felsberg Deepak Nayar
writer =Wim Wenders
starring =Luis Barzaga Joachim Cooder Ry Cooder Juan de Marcos González Julio Alberto Fernández Ibrahim Ferrer
Carlos GonzálezRubén González Salvador Repilado Labrada Pío Leyva Manuel "Puntillita" Licea Orlando "Cachaito" López Benito Suárez Magana Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal Eliades Ochoa Omara Portuondo Julienne Oviedo Sánchez Compay Segundo Barbarito Torres Alberto 'Virgilio' Valdés Amadito Valdés Lázaro Villa
music =
cinematography =
editing =Monica Anderson Brian Johnson
distributor =
released =February 17 1999 (Berlin International Film Festival)
runtime =105 min.
language =English / Spanish
budget =
imdb_id =0186508|"Buena Vista Social Club" (1999) is a documentary
film byWim Wenders about themusic of Cuba . It is named for theBuena Vista Social Club inHavana , a hotspot for Cuban music in the 1940s.The film documents how
Ry Cooder , long-time friend of Wenders, brought together legendaryCuba n musicians to record an album (also called "Buena Vista Social Club"), and to perform a concert in theUnited States . Although they are geographically close, travel betweenCuba and the United States is restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes interviews with each of the main performers.It made the musicians, some of them already in their nineties, known to a worldwide audience, and some went on to release popular solo albums; these included
Ibrahim Ferrer ,Compay Segundo ,Rubén González and Elíades Ochoa.The film was nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary feature in 2000. It won as best documentary in the
European Film Awards as well as many others. The album "Buena Vista Social Club" features studio versions of the music heard in the movie.Musicians (in order of appearance)
* Francisco Repilado, aka
Compay Segundo (vocals andtres )
*Eliades Ochoa (vocals andguitar )
*Ry Cooder (slide guitar )
*Joachim Cooder , his son (percussion)
*Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals,conga s,claves , bongos)
*Omara Portuondo (vocals)
*Rubén González (piano )
*Orlando "Cachaito" López (Double bass )
*Amadito Valdés
*Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal (trumpet )
*Barbarito Torres (laud )
*Pío Leyva
*Manuel "Puntillita" Licea (vocals)
*Juan de Marcos González (güiro )ongs in the film (in order of appearance)
* "Chan Chan" (Francisco Repilado)
* "Silencio" (Rafael Hernandez)
* "Chattanooga Choo Choo " (Harry Warren andMack Gordon )
* "Dos Gardenias" (Isolina Carillo )
* "Veinte Años" (María Teresa Vera ),
* "Y Tu Que Has Hecho" (Eusebio Delfin),
* "Black Bottom" (Ray Henderson ,Lew Brown and B. G. De Sylva)
* "Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona ),
* "El Carretero" (Guillermito Portulez )
* "Cienfuegos (tiene suguaguanco )" (Victor Lay )
* "Begin The Beguine " (Cole Porter )
* "Buena Vista Social Club" (Orestes Lopez , inventor of the mambo in 1937)
* "Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
* "Candela" (Faustino Oramas ),
* "Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the father ofCachaito )
* "El cuarto de Tula" (son/descarga , Sergo Siaba),
* "Guateque Campesino" (Celia Romeo "Guateque"),
* "Nuestra Ultima Cita" (Forero Esther)
* "Quizás, Quizás, Quizás " (boléro byOswaldo Farres ).External links
*imdb title|id=0186508|title=Buena Vista Social Club
* [http://www.pbs.org/buenavista/film/index.html Comprehensive PBS Site about the film]
*fr icon [http://michbuze.club.fr/burdi/buena_vista_social_club.htm Site about Buena Vista Social Club]
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