Memorias del subdesarrollo Memories of Underdevelopment Tomás Gutiérrez Alea [videorecording]=

By:

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Contributor(s):

[Director Screenwriter Author Actor]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: Spanish Summary language: English Original language: Spanish Subtitle language: English Publication details: Italy Cuban StateFilm Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos 06/01/1968Description: 2 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) sound, Black and White. 4 3/4 inOther title:

Memories of Underdevelopment

Uniform titles:

Memories of Underdevelopment

LOC classification:

PN1997 .M466 1968

Summary: DVD Disc one - Movie This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street scenes. Intimate and densely layered, Memories of Underdevelopment provides an indictment of its protagonist's disengagement and an extraordinary glimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba. DVD Disc two Special Edition Features New 4K digital restoration. New interviews with film critics B.Ruby Rich and José Antonio Évora. New interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes. Titón: From Havana to "Guantanamera", a 2008 feature length documentary on director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's life and career. Segment from a 1989 audio interview with Gutiérrez Alea. Segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor Nelson Rod'riguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'Visual History Program collection. Trailer. New english subtitle translation. Plus: An essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-C: DVD Cabinet C	PN1997 .M466 1968 d.2	Available		003417
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-C: DVD Cabinet C	PN1997 .M466 1968 d.1	Available		003407

Based on an innovative novel Memorias del Subdesarrollo by Edmundo Desnoes.

DVD Disc one - Movie

This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street scenes. Intimate and densely layered, Memories of Underdevelopment provides an indictment of its protagonist's disengagement and an extraordinary glimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba.

DVD Disc two Special Edition Features

New 4K digital restoration.
New interviews with film critics B.Ruby Rich and José Antonio Évora.
New interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes. Titón: From Havana to "Guantanamera", a 2008 feature length documentary on director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's life and career.
Segment from a 1989 audio interview with Gutiérrez Alea.
Segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor Nelson Rod'riguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences'Visual History Program collection.
Trailer. New english subtitle translation.
Plus: An essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro.

DVD video; Dolby Digital or DTS 7.1, 5.1, 2.0, 1.0; surround, stereo; NTSC, 1080p; Regions 2; x:1 as 16:9 widescreen.

Optional English language subtitles. Optional language subtitles for the deaf or hard-of-hearing.

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