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- BFI identifier500756
- Date1999 (Release)
- Production countryGermany
- Production company
- SynopsisDocumentary. Musical film featuring acclaimed guitarist Ry Cooder, and the making of the album entitled Buena Vista Social Club featuring the "band" put together to record it, composed predominantly of musicians from Cuba, mature in age but still going strong - the youngest of the group being 42 years old. (Synopsis) Documentary about the collaboration between the acclaimed blues guitarist Ry Cooder, and the band of mainly elderly Cuban musicians who worked with him on the `Buena Vista Social Club' album in 1996. These included Joachim Cooder, Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén Gonzáles, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo. Follows Cooder in 1998 on a further trip to Havana for the recording of Ibrahim Ferrer's solo album and to sell out concerts with the `band' in Amsterdam and New York's Carnegie Hall. (Synopsis)
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Title
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (Original)
Category
Non Fiction- Collections
- Posters / DesignsPoster: film - single sheet, landscape, Poster - PD-11694
Poster: film - single sheet landscape - PD-11706
view all - Stillsbfi-00m-gtt
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-stl
Photograph: transparency - SPD-210299
Photograph: transparency - SPD-210300
Photograph: transparency - SPD-210301
view all - ArticlesVariety 22 Feb 1999 - Credits, Review, SynopsisFilm Review October 1999 - ReviewEntertainment Weekly n517 17 Dec 1999 - Video Reviewview all
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- BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB
Work - 500756 - 1999 (Release)
Germany - Film - Non Fiction
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