joshua-m-meryman
Joined Jul 2002
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This film contains some of the most electric Salsa performances (Celia Cruz in all her mid 70's glory!)ever captured on celluloid. Due to lost masters, the DVD makers labored to even get what is shown in the course of 83 mins (50 or so devoted to concert footage from a Yankee Stadium show). Quality is not great but the music makes it worth your while. Besides Fania w/ Celia (in her first live collaboration with the group) and other guests including Jorge Santana (Carlos' bro), see El Gran Combo - the great Puerto Rican Salsa band. For your own copy try lightintheattic.net. Also "Fania All Stars in Africa" and "Our Latin Thing" all directed by Leon Gast, director of WWWK.
Most viewers, it seems, need everything s-p-e-l-l-e-d out for them. What is so disconcerting about having to figure things out for yourself? So what if there is no right or wrong way of interpreting a story (nobody ever saw "Mulholland Drive"?). The clues here are in the "book". Either she is living the book or she is writing about what actually happened. Either Julie was real or she wasn't (at least the way the author describes her or even the real Julie at all). Either everything happened the way we see it or not! Watching movies is supposed to be fun! I personally liked the fact that the story twisted my mind up and then left me hanging at the end to figure it out (the way I could understand it whether it be right or wrong). Good, fun flick!!!
This was actually the first Cinerama film at the Cinerama Festival that I saw. Being an original print, in fact the very last known of its kind, the color was somewhat pink throughout most of this picture. Despite the discoloration, I actually enjoyed this most of all the films I saw during the week (SFP, Windjammer & This is Cinerama). I even caught a glimpse of some reds, greens and yellows in the Royal Parade in Katmandu. To me, this represented the closest vision of the true goal of a Cinerama film - to thrill, educate and captivate. I had such fun I left the theater feeling like I had actually visited the places we went in the film. This film had it all - had it been released in summer of '57 it could have been a blockbuster!