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...only Latin film to win the foreign-language Oscar, and Brazil's poignant Central Station (1998), the Oscar-nominated tale of a cynical Rio woman who helps a street urchin find his family. But starting with Central Station, Latin American directors have found what many critics are calling buena onda, a consistent "groove" of relevant, top-drawer filmmaking that uses distinctly regional stories and styles but makes a connection with worldwide audiences. "These directors have developed a hybrid of U.S. and Latin American storytelling values," says University of Miami film professor Rafael Lima. "This wave will last - in fact...
...Cooder's 1997 collaboration with a group of septuagenarian Cuban musicians, Buena Vista Social Club, sold 8 million copies and earned a Grammy for Best Tropical Latin Performance. It also earned Cooder a $100,000 fine from the U.S. government. "I learned that what Buena Vista means to the people who enforce the [Cuba trade and travel] embargo," says Cooder, "is not very much...
...Clinton presidency--after Cooder had lobbied the State Department for two years--he was given a one-year exemption from the travel ban. The result is Mambo Sinuendo, Cooder's playful, dueling guitar album with Manuel Galban. "I knew that I wanted to work with the Buena Vista musicians again because, hey, many of them are geniuses," says Cooder. "But Manuel's the most surprising of them all. This kind of versatile talent I just hadn't figured...
That freedom belies the geopolitical and logistical circumstances under which Mambo was recorded. Cooder and Galban, 72, tried to create a lifetime's worth of musical repartee in pressure-packed 10-hour recording sessions. (During his exemption, Cooder also produced an album by Buena Vista vocalist Ibrahim Ferrer, Buenos Hermanos, due out in March.) "Because every minute counts," says Cooder, "you pretty much just keep the tape running." The continual recording paid off when Galban walked into the studio one day, sat down at the piano and played Bolero Sonambulo, Mambo's best track, fully formed. "You knew right away...
Bookshelves filled with publications on Latin and Central American issues line the walls not covered with photographs, and music from the Buena Vista Social Club plays softly in the background. Excerpts from Falconi’s correspondence with both artists are printed in Spanish next to some of the photographs, reminding viewers how rooted the exhibition is in Harvard’s close-knit Latin American community...