Buena Vista Social Club

(1999)

This documentary directed by Wim Wenders and produced by guitarist Ry Cooder begins with legendary 92-year-old singer and instrumentalist Compay Segundo patrolling the streets of Havana for the whereabouts of the Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only club in the East Havana Hills that produced some of the island's greatest and most forgotten players. And the film goes on to be a seductive excavation of an extraordinary group of musicians -- including Ibrahim Ferrer, Eliades Ochoa, and Rubén González -- long buried in the sounds of memory, as well as a frayed postcard valentine to Havana.