Buena Vista Social Club

A Chan Centre Connects Event 

Director: Wim Wenders
Length: 105 minutes
Year: 1999

In 1997, Ry Cooder travelled to Cuba to record Eliades Ochoa and Cuban musicians in collaboration with famous Malian musicians. When the Malians never made it to Cuba, Cooder salvaged the project by bringing together and recording aging Cuban musicians whose talents had been virtually forgotten following Castro's revolution. This recording became the triumphant Buena Vista Social Club album.

This film, directed by Wim Wenders, portrays the legendary Buena Vista Social Club in their lives back in Cuba, in reunion in the recording studio, and in their Carnegie Hall performance. 

For more information visit: www.wim-wenders.com

Want to see some real Cuban musicians performing live? Grammy-nominated Cuban music group Tiempo Libre will be performing at the Chan Centre on Friday, March 9th, 2012 at 8pm.

Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street