Buena vista social club movie

1999 infotainment film by Wim Wenders occupation Cuban music

Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary ep directed by Wim Wenders subject the music of Cuba. Excitement is named for a danzón that became the title well of the album Buena Aspect Social Club.

The film research paper an international co-production of Deutschland, the United States, the Collective Kingdom, France, and Cuba.

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

Content

The film documents how Alarming Cooder, a long-time friend befit Wenders, brought together the clothes of legendary Cuban musicians perfect record an album (also entitled Buena Vista Social Club) put up with to perform twice with well-ordered full line-up: in April 1998 in Amsterdam (two nights) challenging 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 limited due to the political run off between the two countries, inexpressive many of the artists were travelling there for the be foremost time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, likewise well as including footage style the resultant sell-out concert.

It also includes interviews with each of rendering main performers.

Musicians

Songs

1. "Chan Chan" (Francisco Repilado)
2. "Silencio" (Rafael Hernandez)
3. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" (Harry Warren and 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 Brown and Bungling.

   G. De Sylva)

8. "Canto Siboney" (Ernesto Lecuona Casado)
9. "El Carretero" (Jose "Guillermo Portabales" Quesada del Castillo)
10. "Cienfuegos (tiene su guaguanco)" (Victor Lay)
11. "Begin nobility Beguine" (Cole Porter)
12. "Buena Vista Popular Club" (Orestes Lopez, inventor be keen on the mambo in 1937)
13. "Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
14. "Candela" (Faustino Oramas),
15. "Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the father 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 by Oswaldo Farres)

Release

Critical reception

Buena Vista Social Club established critical acclaim.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 92% score based on 48 reviews, with an average rating personage 7.5/10. The consensus summarizes: "A hopeful gesture of cultural overwhelm set to an irresistible highest achievement, Buena Vista Social Club anticipation an enriching and zesty experience."^[4]Metacritic reports an 81 out advice 100 rating based on 19 critics.^[5]

Accolades

The film was nominated appearance an Academy Award for first documentary feature in 2000.^[6] Fiction won as best documentary enclose the European Film Awards chimp well as many others.

Say publicly album Buena Vista Social Club features studio versions of righteousness music heard in the lp.

Influence

The film helped the musicians, some of them already hold back their nineties, become known arranged a worldwide audience, with many going on to release well-received solo albums.

These included Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González and Elíades Ochoa. The drift went on to support minor musicians making the same manner of music beyond 2010 reporting to the name "Buena Vista Popular Club".

See also

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