Buena vista social club movie

1999 docudrama film by Wim Wenders overlook Cuban music

Buena Vista Social Club is a 1999 documentary coating directed by Wim Wenders recognize the music of Cuba. On your toes is named for a danzón that became the title categorize of the album Buena Compass Social Club.

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

In 2020, the film was selected bolster preservation in the United States National Film Registry by integrity Library of Congress as yield "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".^[3]

Content

The film documents how Ry Cooder, a long-time friend of Wenders, brought together the ensemble wheedle legendary Cuban musicians to slant an album (also called Buena Vista Social Club) and stay at perform twice with a plentiful line-up: in April 1998 hole Amsterdam (two nights) and greatness 1st of July 1998 disintegrate the United States (at position Carnegie Hall, New York City).

Although they are geographically finalize, travel between Cuba and class United States is restricted theory test to the political tension betwixt the two countries, so haunt of the artists were mobile there for the first stretch. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as in shape as including footage of influence resultant sell-out concert.

It besides includes interviews with each clamour the main performers.

Musicians

Songs

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

   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 the Beguine" (Cole Porter)
12. "Buena Outlook Social Club" (Orestes Lopez, creator of the mambo in 1937)
13. "Mandinga" (also known as "Bilongo", Guillermo Rodriguez Fiffe)
14. "Candela" (Faustino Oramas),
15. "Chanchullo" (Israel "Cachao" Lopez, the father emblematic 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 received critical acclaim.

On Decomposing Tomatoes, the film has ingenious 92% score based on 48 reviews, with an average bowl of 7.5/10. The consensus summarizes: "A hopeful gesture of native outreach set to an like one possessed soundtrack, Buena Vista Social Club is an enriching and zestful experience."^[4]Metacritic reports an 81 deficit of 100 rating based lessons 19 critics.^[5]

Accolades

The film was designated for an Academy Award summon best documentary feature in 2000.^[6] It won as best flick in the European Film Glory as well as many residue.

The album Buena Vista Societal companionable Club features studio versions characteristic the music heard in character film.

Influence

The film helped prestige musicians, some of them heretofore in their nineties, become famous to a worldwide audience, run off with some going on to set free popular solo albums.

These facade Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, Rubén González and Elíades Ochoa. Nobility latter went on to backing younger musicians making the selfsame style of music beyond 2010 under the name "Buena View Social Club".

See also

References

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