I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition
by Mikhail Kalatozov
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Actor: Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Sergio CorrieriDirector: Mikhail Kalatozov
Brand: Oscilloscope Pictures
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Original Language); Russian (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: Mile00106
Studio: New Yorker Video/Milestone Cinematheque
Product features:
- I AM CUBA: ULTIMATE EDITION (DVD MOVIE)
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Movie Review: I am Cuba: 'an avante-garde freakout.'
Summary: 5 Stars
This beautiful film reveals the poetic possibilities of cinema. I am Cuba is a 1964 Cuban/Soviet film produced by director Mikhail Kalatozov (The Cranes are Flying). The Soviet government commissioned Kalatozov to create a film promoting international socialism; what it got instead was "an avante-garde freakout that continues to cast a spell over filmmakers" (New York Times, 11/20/2007, p. B8) including Martin Scorsese, who has been campaigning to restore the movie since the 1990s. Kalatozov was given almost total freedom to complete the film, and the resulting work continues to amaze cinephiles with its long, breathtaking camera shots (using a wide angle lens). In one scene, Kalatozov's camera moves among the contestants of a beauty contest, exits the building, makes a two story descent into a smoky club, circles around several bartenders, and then actually enters a swimming pool. (Paul Thomas Anderson used this same shot in his film, Boogie Nights.) In another famous scene, the camera follows a coffin along a crowded street, and then ascends upwards for at least four stories until it is filming the coffin from above a building, where it enters the building through a window into a cigar factory, where workers are watching the coffin in the street below. A highly recommended artistic film experience revealing the power of cinema.
This new special edition of I am Cuba includes Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0; optional English subtitles; a new high-definition transfer of the feature film from original Russian 35mm; a video interview with Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese; language tracks in both Spanish and Russian with new English subtitles; Cuban version of opening credits; original Milestone trailer; "THE SIBERIAN MAMMOTH," Vicente Ferraz's award-winning documentary on the making of I AM CUBA; City Cinematheque's Jerry Carlson interviews screenwriter Yevgeny Yevtushenko; "A FILM ABOUT MIKHAIL KALATOZOV," and I AM CUBA: THE TRUE STORY, a booklet on the making of the film and its history since then.
G. Merritt
Summary of I Am Cuba: The Ultimate Edition
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