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Dominican Rep. Buena Vista Social Club
1999 
7,352
Documentary
A group of legendary Cuban musicians, some as old as their nineties, were brought together by Ry Cooder to record a CD. In this film, we see and hear some of the songs being recorded in Havana. There is also footage from concerts in Amsterdam and New York City's Carnegie Hall. In addition, many of the individual musicians talk about their lives in Cuba and about how they got started in music.
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"A poetry of love, longing and affirmation bleeds through the music of Cuba, and some of the best sounds the island ever created are captured with embracing humanity." | POS |
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United States |
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"Being able to hear this kind of playing is a special moment in time, one we don't want to end and one that we're privileged to experience." | POS |
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United States |
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"I've never seen another movie that so clearly expresses the sensual sustenance that great folk culture provides its practitioners" | POS |
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United States |
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"The movie comes closer to pure happiness than anything else in the theatres at the moment, and it has an intriguing and moving subtext: the Cubans' buried but irrepressible love of things American" | POS |
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United States |
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"It is a touching story, and the musicians (some over 90 years old) still have fire and grace onstage, but, man, does the style of this documentary get in the way." | NEU |
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United States |
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"The concert scenes find the stage awash in such intense joy, camaraderie and nationalist pride that you become convinced that making music is a key to longevity and spiritual well-being." | POS |
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United States |
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"Wenders lets the music and the sprightly people who make it speak for themselves, although the director's ongoing fascination with the urban environment is in top form" | POS |
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United States |
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"The players and their stories are as wonderful as the music, and the filmmaking is uncommonly sensitive and alert." | POS |
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