Michael Chanan
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documentary film-maker, writer and teacher

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Cuba Page

New takes on Cuba:

☛ Cuba in Paris

☛ Cuba: Untold Stories

☛ Another Film on Che Guevara

☛ Soderbergh's Che reviewed

☛ Magnum's exhibition reviewed

☛ Airplane Cuba

EICTV - The Cuban Film School 
This is the link for the EICTV. Have a look at this article from The Guardian

Cuban Cinema 
University of Minnesota Press, 2004
This is the second edition of 'The Cuban Image: Cinema and Cultural Politics in Cuba' (BFI/Indiana University Press, 1984) Read a review in Afterimage

'Memories of Underdevelopment' by T.G.Alea, (Editor) 
Rutgers University Press, 1990 (Rutgers Films in Print)
The book includes the script of the film, the novella by Edmundo Desnoes on which it is based, and a collection of readings about the film.

¶ The Changing Geography of Third Cinema  (Screen Special Latin American Issue Volume 38 number 4 Winter 1997) The history of the concept of Third Cinema, from the introduction of the term by Solanas and Getino in 1968 to the 1990s.

¶ Play it again, or Old-time Cuban Music on the Screen
(New Left Review, 1999) A review of two music films about 'rediscovered' Cuban music: Buena Vista Social Club and Lagrimas Negras.

¶ Remembering Titon  An obituary for Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. 

¶ Titon y lo intertextual (TEMAS no. 27: 63-5, octubre-diciembre de 2001) (Sorry, this lik not working at the moment)

¶ Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Entrevisto por Michael Chanan (Encuentro 1, Primavera de 1996)

¶ Obituary for Alberto Korda

¶ Obituary for Pastor Vega

Obituary for Humberto Solas

 

 

 
Video: Weekend Entertainment
at the Cuban Film School
(4mns)