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DESCRIPTION:I am Cuba (Soy Cuba)\n141 minutes (2 hrs, 21 minutes)\n1964 (Released 1995 
 by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese)\nDirector:  Mikhail Kalatozov 
 Writers:  Enrique Pineda Barnet , Yevgeni Yevtushenko*\n\nPresented at the 
 second meeting of the \nRevolutionary Film Club: watch and discuss 
 revolutionary and political films \nSunday, March 16, 2008\n5PM at a home 
 in the Castro.  (Convenient to the Muni 33)\n\nView a trailer (after a 
 capitalist commercial-we’ll fix that right after the 
 revolution.)\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/trailers-screenplay-E14472-310\n\nOne 
 of the most black and white films ever produced, I AM CUBA, is a remarkable 
 Soviet-Cuban collaboration about the revolution and the Cuban people.  This 
 film will no doubt spur an interesting discussion about Cuba, its dynamic 
 revolution, and the fate of that revolution today.\n\nThe film was largely 
 forgotten until 1993 when it reappeared in a film festival and was 
 rereleased.  The film defied the puritanical narrowness of Soviet film and 
 was denounced as “formalist” by the Stalinist film authorities.  It has 
 survived while the authorities have been doomed to obscurity.\n\nHere’s a 
 good, short description from IMDB.com:\n\nFour vignettes in Batista's Cuba 
 dramatize the need for revolution; long, mobile shots tell almost wordless 
 stories. In Havana, Maria faces shame when a man who fancies her discovers 
 how she earns her living. Pedro, an aging peasant, is summarily told that 
 the land he farms has been sold to United Fruit. A university student faces 
 down a crowd of swaggering U.S. sailors and then watches friends shot by 
 police when they try to distribute a pro-Castro leaflet. The war arrives on 
 the doorstep of peasants Mariano, Amelia, and their four children when 
 Batista's forces bomb the hills. Mariano wants peace, so he seeks out the 
 guerrillas to join the fight.\n\nFor an interesting review by in the 
 British Film 
 Institute:\nhttp://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/review/171\n\nAlso useful, 
 the Wikipedia entry for this 
 film:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Cuba\n\n*For a short biography of 
 Yevgeny Yevtushenko, the acclaimed Soviet dissident poet and writer who 
 contributed to the script: 
 \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Yevtushenko\n\n\nThis series is 
 sponsored by the Workers International League’s San Francisco Branch.  
 The WIL is a socialist organization and the discussion afterward are 
 informal and free ranging.  The screening is free, but a collection for the 
 Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign will be made.  Everyone is encouraged 
 to bring something to drink and to discuss the film afterwards. 
 \n\n\n\nOther Upcoming films in the series:\nStrike!,Sergei M. 
 Eisenstein	82 minutes, 1925, Silent, Russian with English subtitles, 
 USSR\nThe Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo, 121 minutes, 1967, Algeria\n1900, 
 Bertolucci, Italian with English subtitles, US, Italy, China\nSalt of the 
 Earth, Herbert J. Biberman, 94 minutes,	1954, English/Spanish US\nLast 
 Emperor, The, Bertolucci English Italy/China \nLand and Freedom, Ken 
 Loach,109 minutes, 1995, English.	UK\nBurn, Pontecorvo, 1970, featuring 
 Marlon Brando, English\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/12/18485330.php
SUMMARY:I am Cuba (Soy Cuba) viewing and discussion
LOCATION:Private home in the Castro. (Convenient to the Muni 33) Call or email for 
 RSVP and directions.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/03/12/18485330.php
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