Buena Vista Social Club in 35mm

Added to the National Film Registry in 2020.

Sun, Jan 21, 2024 | 7:30pm PT

David Geffen Theater
BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Added to the National Film Registry in 2020.

Both a time capsule of the tense relations between Cuba and the United States and a stirring showcase of a regional music scene, Wim Wenders’s Oscar-nominated documentary about the popular danzón music of the Caribbean island country was met with universal acclaim upon its release, leading to increased international recognition for musicians like Ibrahim Ferrer, Compay Segundo, and Rubén González. Wenders’s close friend Ry Cooder, a multi-instrumental American musician, helped gather the eponymous ensemble that would tour to Amsterdam and Carnegie Hall in New York, marking for some the first time these artists were able to travel to the United States.

DIRECTED/WRITTEN BY: Wim Wenders. WITH: Octavio Calderon, Joachim Cooder, Ry Cooder, Angel Terry Domech. 1999. 105 min. Germany/USA/UK/France/Cuba. B&W, Color. English, Spanish. Rated G. 35mm. Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation. 

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