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	Movie Review \| Buena Vista Social Club (1999) Wim Wenders
		The main thrust of Buena Vista Social Club, from what I can gather from the film, is that American musician Ry Cooder traveled to Cuba to meet a friend and discuss plans to record music by some local talents.
		And Buena Vista Social Club The Movie is born.
		The movie itself is composed of terrific music played by the musicians, live and recorded, and cuts between a concert by the Club in Amsterdam and the musicians back in Cuba among the people, in their homes, and around the city.
	www.beyondhollywood.com /reviews/buenavistasocialclub.htm (741 words)

	Cuba-Junky \| Buena Vista Social Club
		Younger than the bulk of the Buena Vista musical family (born in 1954), he nevertheless has a direct lineage to the greatness of the golden era rendered in the film and on the various Buena Vista albums.
		Ry Cooder met her in Havana before the sessions for Buena Vista, and the following year, during the legendary sessions, Omara happened to be recording at EGREM Studios at the same time.
		One of the many unforgettable musical moments on The Buena Vista Social Club album is “Barbarito” Torres’ laúd solo on “El Cuarto de Tula.” The laúd is a 12-string instrument of the lute family, emitting, especially on its high register, a piercing, metallic tone that is perfect for fast, single-note improvising.
	www.cuba-junky.com /cuba/buenavista.htm (2050 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club: Buena Vista Social Club
		This year’s Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders) beautifully blends the past and the present on the island.
		The CD has taken on a life of its own and it’s certain that the movie will in time become a crucial photograph of a Cuba that is certain to change.
		Buena Vista Social Club presents Ibrahim Ferrer has just been released in the States, coinciding with the release Wim Wender’s film that documents their music making.
	www.plume-noire.com /music/favorite/buena.html (827 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club
		The Buena Vista Social Club is the name the album released a couple of years ago by Ry Cooder and many forgotten Cuban musicians.
		Cooder is primarily responsible for the movie and the album.
		Throughout the movie, we are able to listen to many of their songs and their life stories.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/buena_vista.html (394 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| Cuban revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		By contrast, "Buena Vista Social Club," Cooder's laid-back musical collaboration featuring old-time forgotten Cuban musicians such as Ibrahim Ferrer, was released on small world-music label Nonesuch, distributed by Atlantic.
		And while "Buena Vista" continued to sell well in major cities (remaining in the top 25 for 20 months running at the Tower Records flagship store in New York City), by last April national weekly sales had fallen to under 1,900 copies.
		(One week after the "Buena Vista Social Club" movie opened in Minneapolis, local sales of the record nearly quadrupled.) And with the first "Social Club" tour set for the fall, as well as talk of an upcoming PBS special in the works, the album could go even further.
	www.salon.com /ent/log/1999/08/20/buena/index.html (937 words)

	BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
		Wenders' cameras capture street scenes and vistas of crumbling, decrepit Old Havana, where waves crash on harbor walls and raggedy dogs prowl the alleyways.
		Thus Cooder is barely in view in the Buena Vista Social Club.
		Portuondo's heartfelt tear is merely the exclamation point as the Buena Vista Social Club comes joyously back to life.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/b/buenav.html (512 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club review
		They are a fine wine, these musicians on the Grammy winning Buena Vista Social Club album that had been forgotten, both at home and abroad until Ry Cooder uncovered them while in Havana for a project.
		The unassuming 70+ year old vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer is one of the main characters in the movie (his release of a solo album prompted the musicians to get together again in Havana).
		The movie reminds us that there are others, not only in Cuba but everywhere, whose moment in the spotlight has faded but whose genius persists.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/buen.html (693 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Trivia: The Buena Vista Social Club album was put together by guitarist Ry Cooder in 1997 as a means of recapturing the "lost" music of pre-revolutionary Havana.
		The story was later made into this movie.
		I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0186508 (903 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club / Wim Wenders - The Official Site
		Ry Cooder caused an international sensation when he introduced the world to Cuba's son musicians with his 1997 CD Buena Vista Social Club.
		In 1999 Wim Wenders released his documentary of the same name, in which he profiles the legendary Buena Vista Social Club musicians, recording their experiences as they perform in Cuba and abroad, eventually appearing at New York's Carnegie Hall.
		The perfect companion for fans of the CD and the movie, this magnificently produced volume also stands alone as a visual treat for anyone with a fascination for Cuba and its incredible, enchanting music.
	www.wim-wenders.com /art/buenavistasocialclub.htm (245 words)

	The Phat Planet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 1999 release 'The Buena Vista Social Club presents Ibrahim Ferrer' is both a follow-up to the Buena Vista Social Club album and a solo debut for Ferrer, erstwhile front man with past greats such as Orquesta Oriental Chepin and the musical giant Beny Moré.
		The movie, simply entitled 'The Buena Vista Social Club', gets right inside the character of these amazing musicians and captures their sense of wonder at their new status in a very affectionate and engaging way.
		Since the heady years of 1997/8 life may have quietened down a little for those involved with the Buena Vista Social Club, though an excellent new Afro-Cuban All Stars release 'Distinto, diferente' was released to great acclaim in 1999.
	www.thephatplanet.com /buenavistasocialclub.htm (1851 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (1999) - Movie Reviews from TopTenReviews.com
		Buena Vista Social Club, the exuberant new documentary from German director Wim Wenders, more...
		Buena Vista was mostly shot in Cuba on digital video, and includes concert footage from Holland and more...
		The real attraction of the movie, however, is its concert footage, introducing most of us to music that we've heard little of before.
	movies.toptenreviews.com /reviews/mr2395.htm (658 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club
		In 'Buena Vista Social Club' I rather tried to stay an objective observer, as much as that was possible.
		We knew that we would have a chance to film all the songs from the Buena Vista Social Club album in Amsterdam, and I had a vague idea about how we would intertwine the two different elements.
		I also hope that those who already know and love the Buena Vista Social Club album will discover the musicians behind it and will catch a glimpse of an amazingly rich culture.
	www.filmeducation.org /secondary/BuenaVistaSC.html (2137 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club - Zap2it.com - Movie Reviews, Theaters, Trailers, Times and More
		Buena Vista Social Club sets out to combine lyrical music and the experienced directorial hand of Wim Wenders.
		Slowly, the audience is introduced to lively muscians who both play music for the cameras and weave their own tales.
		Mixxed -- while the movie is often deemed gorgeous, some say it lacks drama; nearly everyone agrees the soundtrack is fantastic.
	movies.zap2it.com /movies/details/1,1295,18644,00.html (201 words)

	Amazon.ca: Buena Vista Social Club: Books: Wim Wenders,Donata Wenders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The book is mainly a photo-album which includes the transcriptions of some of the dialogs and interviews from the movie, as well as the lyrics of some of the songs (all of them translated into English).
		Buena Vista Social Club is more a coffee table addition than a serious in-depth study, but will prove a 'must' for any prior fan of the Buena Vista Social Club and Cuban music in particular.
		If you've seen the movie, this book will not only allow you to relive the experience but will provide more insight into the lives of each musician and their journey into our hearts, but will also provide insight into the 'forbidden' country whose beauty draws us and politics confuse us.
	www.amazon.ca /Buena-Vista-Social-Club-Wenders/dp/2097541410 (747 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club . Memphis Flyer . 08-23-99
		Here and there, in some hole-in-the-wall club, he would come upon one of the great masters of a 300-year tradition, which had last invigorated itself for a major run of glory days from the 1920s through the '50s.
		The Buena Vista Social Club project was indeed a once-in-a-century musical salvaging and celebration and, even more, resuscitation of a tradition that resonates from as far afield as western Europe, the Ivory Coast, and even Arabia, through most musical genres of the New World.
		The music of "The Buena Vista Social Club," and now Wenders' documentary, are charged with the deeply satisfying thrill of salvation and restoration.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/memphis/b/buenavistasocialc1.html (550 words)

	PBS presents Buena Vista Social Club
		Overview essay about a music, an island, a history -- setting the stage for the Buena Vista Social Club -- from a Golden Era in Havana to the Latin boom of today.
		A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie, the collaboration of director, Wim Wenders, and guitarist/producer Ry Cooder and a cast of extraordinary musicians filmed in Havana, Amsterdam and New York City.
		Biography and Filmography of German director, Wim Wenders, whose career has spanned from Alice in the Cities, the first of his "road movies" in 1974 to Paris, Texas and Wings of Desire in the 80s to 1999's Buena Vista Social Club.
	www.pbs.org /buenavista/film/index.html (159 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The "Buena Vista Social Club" was the name of a members-only music club in Havana, Cuba that was at its height during the 1940s.
		In the late 1990s Wim Wenders made a movie upon the initiative of Ry Cooder called ''Buena Vista Social Club'' about some of the musicians who had performed there and their involvement in the production of an album released in 1997 also called ''Buena Vista Social Club''.
		Both movie and album were highly successful, and started a craze for Cuban music in the United States and Europe.
	www.artistopia.com /buena-vista-social-club (230 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		But when Cooder told long-time friend and filmmaker Wim Wenders that he was returning to record a solo album with the same group of rediscovered musical heroes, the director accompanied him with a small film crew.
		Shot with overexposed film to create a sun-bleached effect, Wenders also makes extensive use of hand-held camera sequences, which occasionally come across as clumsy, although it’s nothing serious enough to detract from the overall impact of what is a sublime piece of filmmaking.
		This site has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film owners of Buena Vista Social Cluband intellectual copyright holders of the movies mentioned herein and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /features/beuanvistasocialclub.htm (521 words)

	Salon Entertainment \| Viva "Buena Vista Social Club"
		Of course, the musicians were only there on a movie screen in the U.S. premiere of Wim Wenders' lovely new documentary, "Buena Vista Social Club," inspired by the Grammy-winning, Ry Cooder-produced album of the same name.
		The screening was held in a refurbished movie palace, the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts, that less than three years ago was the site of an ugly near-riot protesting the appearance of Cuban jazz pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba.
		A few Cuban artists have played in clubs without incident in the more tolerant city of Miami Beach, there's a popular music club in Miami's Little Havana called Cafe Nostalgia and, on this Friday night at Gusman, Wenders is the audience's tour guide to the glories of son music from pre-revolutionary Cuba.
	www.salon.com /ent/music/feature/1999/03/09feature.html (1155 words)

	Jared's Pick - Movie Reviews: Buena Vista Social Club
		The film gives brief biographies of the men told in their own words, pans across the crushingly poor Havana streets, skips to Carnegie Hall where the Buena Vista Social Club tore the roof off the sucker, and shows great affection touched with reverence throughout for these musicians.
		But while the stories are touching (Ibrahim's wide-eyed wonder at visiting New York for the first time at the age of 70 is impossibly sweet), it's all about the group's music, which permeates nearly every frame of the film.
		This is essentially a concert video interspersed with brief cuts of dialogue, and a damn fine concert it is. If you haven't heard the Buena Vista Social Club album, one of 1998's best, this film will persuade you.
	www.angelfire.com /nh/jaredspick/buenavista.html (536 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club
		Buena Vista Social Club For voice, piano and guitar chords.
		In Buena Vista Social Club, Wenders takes a respectful back seat as he skillfully documents a remarkable byway of social and musical history in which Cooder played a central role.
		It's catchy and sexy - very sexy - and subtle and swingy all at the same time and it is hard not to start swaying or tapping your feet.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/BuenaVista.htm (483 words)

	November 1999 \| blackfilm.com \| reviews \| buena vista social club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Buena Vista Social Club is a documentary about a group of Cuban musicians who, despite their senior status take the world by storm with their heartfelt Latin rhythms.
		The movie invites us to join the Buena Vista Social Club in their jam sessions in the studio and to follow them on tour around the world, culminating in their performance at New York City's own Carnegie Hall.
		This movie provides us with a window into the life of a beautiful town and country--a view that we are so often denied here in the United States.
	www.blackfilm.com /0110/reviews/buena_vista_social_club.shtml (291 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: Buena Vista Social Club
		Everybody loves a comeback, like John Travolta's comeback in "Pulp Fiction." Well, here's a much bigger comeback, a bunch of Cuban musicians, forgotten for years, and some of them older than dirt, make a comeback, and a smashing one at that.
		"The Buena Vista Social Club" is a movie about the story of the making of an album of the same name.
		This film rates a B. Click here for links to places to buy this movie in video and/or DVD format, the soundtrack, books, even used videos, games and lots of other stuff.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/buenavista.html (722 words)

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		No one can recall exactly where the Buena Vista Social Club once stood in pre- revolutionary Havana but Wim Wenders's documentary of a dozen legendary musicians resurrects the magnificent music of the era.
		Guitarist Ry Cooder assembled the aging singers and musicians for a series of recording sessions.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/012236101710IE.html (255 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Buena Vista Social Club, the exuberant new documentary from German director Wim Wenders, proves that the young don't have a monopoly when it comes to making music that is both fresh and funky.
		In 1996, guitarist Ry Cooder went to Cuba, rounded up a host of long-forgotten native music legends, and produced a highly successful album of Afro-Cuban songs under the name Buena Vista Social Club.
		After a decade that saw his output become increasingly more cloying and less satisfying, he delivers a classic with Buena Vista Social Club.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=45592 (499 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club Movie Review
		Genghis Blues followed the story of a blind man who's visit to Tuva, for the throat-singing championships was funny and heartfelt.
		The Buena Vista Social Club is a touching look into the world of aging Cuban musicians, and the poor country that they live in.
		The Buena Vista Social Club is a large group of Cuban music makers.
	www.killermovies.com /reviews/buena-vista-social-club-review-bkh.html (350 words)

	Buena Vista Social Club
		Watch for a beautiful scene at the beginning of the movie when she sings with Ibrahim Ferrer--the camera circles them as they sing, looking into each other's eyes.
		It is a constant swirl: a cigar, the shine on a person's shoes, leaves sparkling in the sun, the color of a car, the sound of the waves...
		The film powerfully captures the alluring beauty of Cuban music and the irrepressible energy and artistic vitality of Buena Vista Social Club band members, whose average age is 70.
	www.newequations.com /livingfromsoul/4buenavista.html (861 words)

	YouTube - Chan Chan
		Chan Chan performed by the Buena Vista S Chan Chan performed by the Buena Vista Social Club...
		Buena Vista Social Club - El Cuarto de Tula
		Buena Vista Social Club - Y Tu Que Has Hecho
	www.youtube.com /watch?v=6JEdf7XsV5g (158 words)

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