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2017

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	Buena Vista Social Club / produced by Ry Cooder, Ulrich Felsberg, Deepak Nayar ; written and directed by Wim Wenders.
Edition:	[Director-approved edition].
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Criterion Collection, [2017] ©2017
Description:	2 videodiscs (105 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.. digital optical surround Dolby digital 5.1 NTSC video file DVD video region 1
Summary:	Documents Ry Cooder's travels to Cuba in 1996 to bring together and record legendary musicians who had played at Havana's Buena Vista Social Club in the 1930s-1950s.
Target Audience Note:	MPAA rating: G.
Series:	The Criterion collection ; 866 Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) ; 866.
Subjects:	Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group). Popular music -- Cuba -- 1991-2000. Sones -- Cuba. Dance music -- Cuba.
Genre:	Songs, Spanish -- Cuba. Documentary films. Feature films. Nonfiction films.
Other Author:	Wenders, Wim, screenwriter, director. Cooder, Ry, porducer, narrator, on-screen participant, performer. Segundo, Compay, on-screen participant, performer. Ochoa, Eliades, on-screen participant, performer. Ferrer, Ibrahim, 1927-2005, on-screen participant, performer. Portuondo, Omara, on-screen participant, performer. González, Rubén, 1919-2003, on-screen participant, performer. Buena Vista Social Club (Musical group), on-screen participant, performer.
Notes:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Dolby digital 5.1, wide screen 1.77:1. Essay by author and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro in container. Features: audio commentary from 1999 featuring director Wim Wenders; new interview with Wenders; interview from 1998 with musician Compay Segundo on his career and the world of Cuban music; radio interviews from 2000 featuring musicians Ibrahim Ferrer, Rubén González, Eliades Ochoa, Omara Portuondo, and others; additional scenes; trailer. Ry Cooder, narrator ; featuring Compay Segundo, Eliades Ochoa, Ibrahim Ferrer, Omara Portuondo, Rubén González. For private home use only. In English and Spanish with optional English or Spanish subtitles.
LCCN:	be2017007903
ISBN:	1681432846
Publisher or Distributor Number:	CC2747D
System Availability:	2
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	2
Control Number:	1181417
Call Number:	DVD 782.421 Bue
Course Reserves:	0
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