R: ARCHIVE, S: MOVIES, D: 12/16/1999,
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. |
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