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In addition to multiple awardwinning feature films including alice in the cities 1973, the american friend 1977, paris, texas 1984, wings of desire 1987, and the million dollar hotel 2000, his most. Buena vista social club film stock photos and images alamy. Jun 23, 2015 together, they add an essential new chapter to wenders classic written in the west, now revisited. A tribute to the late german choreographer, pina bausch, as her dancers perform her most famous creations. Documentary, music traveling from the streets of havana to the stage of carnegie hall, this revelatory documentary captures a forgotten generation of cubas brightest musical talents as they enjoy an unexpected encounter with. With compay segundo, ibrahim ferrer, ruben gonzalez, octavio calderon. Wenders began more frequently exhibiting his photographs in the early 1980s. Buena vista social club with a small film crew, wim wenders accompanied his old friend ry cooder, who had previously written the music for paris, texas and end of violence, on a trip to havana. Over the past four decades, through films like paris, texas 1984, wings of desire 1987, buena vista social club 1999 and pina 2011, wim wenders born 1945 has distinguished himself as one of the leading lights of new german cinema and. Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably buena vista social club 1999, about cuban musicians, and the soul of a man 2003, on american blues. Since the 2014 documentary the salt of the earth, the biography of brazilianfrench economist and photographer sebastiao salgado, i agree with this title. His beguiling 1999 documentary, buena vista social club, about a group of.

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Commentary, deleted scenes, interactive menu, music video, scene access, synopsis. The resulting album, entitled the buena vista social club, was nominated for multiple industry awards and has to date sold over 12 million copies. In this fascinating oscarnominated documentary, american guitarist ry cooder brings together a group of legendary cuban folk musicians some in their 90s to record a grammywinning. When cooder returned to havana in 1998 to record a solo album by 72yearold vocalist ibrahim ferrer, filmmaker wim wenders was on hand to document the occasion. German director wim wenders captured the performance on film, followed by a second concert in carnegie hall, new york city for a documentary that included interviews with the musicians conducted in havana. In 1999 wim wenders released his documentary buena vista social club in. Buena vista social club subtitles polish 12 subtitles. Now 1999 is quite a long time ago in the life of the bvsc, so dont expect as i did to. Buena vista social club 1999 buena vista social club. Back in january, lucy walker was on the verge of debuting her fifth feature at sundance the highprofile sequel to wim wenders 1999 oscarnominated documentary, the buena vista social club. Buena vista social club 1999 the criterion collection.

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Wenders film was released in june 1999 to critical acclaim, receiving an academy award nomination for best documentary feature and winning numerous accolades. The legendary ageing singers and musicians are brought together for a series of recording sessions while reminiscing in decaying havana bars. See more ideas about film, i movie and paris texas. From beginning to end, wenders was able to observe and accompany the musicians on their global and musical journey. The film is an international coproduction of germany, the united states, the united kingdom, france, and cuba.

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