Various Artists
I Am Cuba - The Ultimate Edition: Francis Ford Coppola & Martin Scorcese Present A Film By Mikhail Kalatozov - A 3-DVD Box Set
DVD
(Milestone Cinematheque MLE00106),
Released 1964;
Re-Issued 2007
Editor's Pick:
A fever dream, a plunging rollercoaster ride, a cinematographer's hallucination, a love song to the power of cinema. Welcome to 'I Am Cuba', the film rediscovery that has changed filmmaking forever — in a new deluxe edition!
Director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes Are Flying) and cinematographer Sergei Uresevsky's hybrid offspring of Soviet orthodoxy and Cuban tropicalismo is a film of dazzling contrasts. In four intertwining stories of the revolution, Urusevsky's acrobatic camera takes the viewer on a dizzying ride through smoky nightclubs and rooftop pool parties, rickety shantytowns and rustling sugarcane fields, student protest rallies and remote guerilla outposts. 'I Am Cuba' culminates in the most gorgeously filmed funeral procession of all time, as the camera floats through a cigar factory and hovers high above the narrow streets of Havana. A whirling dance through the sensuous decadence of Batista's Cuba.
I AM CUBA: The Ultimate Edition is a cinephile's dream come true.
[from the liners]
I AM CUBA : The Ultimate Edition (Soy Cuba/Ja Kuba)
A film by Mikhail Kalatozov:141 minutes.
Disc 1: I Am Cuba new high-definition master from the original Russian 35 mm fine grain master. Bonus video interview with Academy Award winning director Martin Scorcese (26 minutes). Language tracks in both Spanish and Russian with new English intertitles.
Stills, galleries, original trailer, and much more!
Disc 2: The Siberian Mammoth, Vicente Ferraz's award-winning documentary on the making of I Am Cuba. (2005 - 91 Minutes). CUNY City Cinemathetique interview with screenwriter Yevgeny Yevtushenko (2004 - 30 Minutes)
Disc 3: A film about Mikhail Kalatozov--A comprehensive documentary on this giant of Russian cinema. (2006 - 120 minutes)
Includes the booklet: I Am Cuba: The True Story (DR, 2008-03-24)
Category: Dvd
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