I Am Cuba (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

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Both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made, this legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion. The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising. Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation.BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack“I Am Cuba,” the Siberian Mammoth, a 2004 documentary on the making of the film featuring key participantsInterview from 2003 with filmmaker Martin ScorseseNew appreciation of the film by cinematographer Bradford YoungTrailerAlternate Russian-dubbed soundtrackNew English subtitle translationPLUS: An essay by film critic Juan Antonio García Borrero Review: Amazing Film - I've owned every iteration of this film possible. The first was the laserdisc from Criterion in the 90s. I sold that online, it was very rare. I kinda wish I did not. Then it was the one disc Milestone DVD. Then it was the Ultimate Edition 3 disc that came in a cigar box. I sold that online too. I kinda wish I did not. The 3 disc DVD Ultimate Edition has a documentary on the Filmmaker Mikhail Kalatozov you cannot find anywhere, not even on this Criterion Collection or the laserdisc. I could not pass up the Blu-Ray 4k version of this though. I hope they have the Spanish language and not the Russian over spanish, but I haven't checked. Its a gorgeous amazing cinematic triumph and deserves your attention. Review: Beautiful and unique - A Russian documentary crew goes to Cuba in the 60s to make communist propaganda. They ended up having fun instead by the looks of it. Music, dancing, drinking, swimming, flying… I bet they didn’t want to go home afterwards!!