It is named for a danzon that became the title piece of the album buena vista social club. Buena vista social club is a 1999 documentary film directed by wim wenders about the music of cuba. The musicians of the buena vista social club needed to be rediscovered, but thats all they needed. Adios plays more like a wellintentioned but unsatisfying addendum to wenders movie and cooders recording. Lucy walkers documentary usefully fills in gaps left by the wildly successful 1999 wim wenders film about the band and its few ageing. In 1996 ry cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history.
Buena vista social club 1999 financial information. Wenders, among others, is an executive producer is both an exemplary sequel and a vital, informative companion. Adios is director lucy walkers sequel to wim wenders awardwinning 1999 documentary buena vista social club. The buena vista social club, the album and the film is the story of a remarkable reliving of the classic era of cuban popular music, the resurrection of musical forms and personalities that have. Inside the buena vista social club sequel that became a. Many will have wondered what happened to the veteran cuban musicians profiled in wim wenderss 1998 cult classic, buena vista social club, and lucy walker provides some of the answers in this. They named the group after the homonymous members club in the buenavista quarter of havana, a popular music venue in the 1940s. A short film about the making of the buena vista social club first album.
Wim wenders documentary buena vista social club is about the adventures of ry cooder in cuba. Lucy walker buena vista social club movies that inspire me duration. Unfortunately, lucy walkers buena vista social club. It was the soundtrack to every late90s dinner party. As the farewell tour heads for britain, laura barton. In 1996 ry cooder gathered together some of the greatest names from the history of cuban music to collaborate on the best selling and grammy winning album the buena vista social club. A musical documentary, buena vista social club 1999 intercuts fascinating talkingheads footage and images of the old, by now decaying. It is named for a danzon that became the title piece of. Buena vista social club is an ensemble of cuban musicians established in 1996 to revive the music of prerevolutionary cuba. A nostalgic look back at a vanished era, but also another, better movie. Buena vista social club the making of short film 11. The film offers a wonderful opportunity for parents to not only expose their children to diverse musical styles, but also to examples of people who, even in their twilight years some in their nineties, are very passionate and active musicians. If this movie comes out on dvd, i hope the other side contains bonus concert footage. Buena vista social club, which earned wenders a comparatively large audience and his first academy award nomination he was nominated again for the similarly artsoriented art house hit pina 2011 in 2012,finds the frontrank auteur and his american friend, the extraordinarily versatile session man and onetime captain beefheart.
But did buena vista social club sell a distorted, touristfriendly view of cuban culture. Buena vista social club, lost and found the famed cuban collective dusts off treasures from nearly 20 years of recording and touring just in time to say goodbye. The most incandescent moment in wim wenderss exhilarating documentary portrait of the cuban ensemble buena vista social club is a. Spend two hours in cuba without going near a cigar and be utterly. Wim wenders, who directed it, seems to have given his cameramen a few basic instructions which they follow over and over again for the entire. The havana recordings produced the worldwide bestseller buena vista social club named for a longforgotten gathering place of prerevolutionary times. Buena vista social club is appropriate and enjoyable for all ages, although younger children might be bored by its pace. The film is an international coproduction of germany, the united states, the united kingdom, france, and cuba.
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