BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB (Original title)
Date: 1999 (Release)Country: GermanyDirector: Wim Wenders
Production company billing: ©Road Movies Produktion, Berlin A Road Movies production in association with Kintop Pictures and ARTE A film by Wim Wenders Dolby Digital In Colour [1.78:1] [Variety] A Road Movies Filmproduktion production, in association with Kintop Pictures, Arte, ICAIC. (International sales: Summit Entertainment, London.)
Synopsis: Documentary. 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.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Cuba, Music, Bossa Nova (music), Rumba, Salsa, Jazz music, Latin music
Releases
Date: 1999not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 104 mins Language: English
Date: December 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 105 mins Dialogue (original): Spanish / Dialogue (original): English / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 1999 (Release)Country: GermanyDirector: Wim Wenders
Production company billing: ©Road Movies Produktion, Berlin A Road Movies production in association with Kintop Pictures and ARTE A film by Wim Wenders Dolby Digital In Colour [1.78:1] [Variety] A Road Movies Filmproduktion production, in association with Kintop Pictures, Arte, ICAIC. (International sales: Summit Entertainment, London.)
Synopsis: Documentary. 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.
Genre: Documentary
Subjects: Cuba, Music, Bossa Nova (music), Rumba, Salsa, Jazz music, Latin music
Releases
Date: 1999not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - Dolby DigitalRuntime: 104 mins Language: English
Date: December 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour - SoundRuntime: 105 mins Dialogue (original): Spanish / Dialogue (original): English / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer