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Salsa: Latin Pop Music in Cities [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Tito Puente , Celia Cruz
This 1979 documentary profiles the hot Afro-Latin dance music called salsa, a zesty marriage of North American jazz, Puerto Rican bomba/plena, and Cuban mambo, rumba, danzon, and cha-cha-cha rhythms. The music was born in New York in the '60s and since then, it has served as the musical lingua franca of the Hispanic world. The footage in this film is incredible. You have Tito Puente, the late "King of the Timbales," playing outdoors in the Bronx with keyboardist Charlie Palmieri (the brother of legendary piano whiz Eddie Palmieri), who, in another segment, conducts a Latin music class for school kids who proceed to jam on his hit "Mambo Joe." Panamanian singer Rubén Blades of the historic Fania label is also showcased, along with his on-point discussion on Latin American music and politics, which are matched by the ex-Young Lord member Felipe Luciano, who puts the music at the center of the urbane Latino experience in New York.

The highpoint of this documentary is the rare rehearsal footage of señora Celia Cruz, "the Queen of Salsa," whose elegant choreography, elliptical phrasing, and piercing vocals set the standard for all salsa singers. Along with the poignant...

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Roots of Rhythm [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Desi Arnaz , Harry Belafonte , Rubén Blades , Celia Cruz , Xavier Cugat
Director: Gene Rosow , Howard Dratch
Before "World Music" ever appeared in record stores, Americans danced the Rumba and Mambo and sang along with Xavier Cugat and Desi Arnaz. Join host Harry Belafonte for a globe-trotting, star-studded celebration tracing the fiery history of Latin Music.

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Latino Session [VHS]

Staring: Celia Cruz , Poncho Sanchez , Jerry Garcia , Carlos Santana , Ruben Blades

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The Perez Family [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Marisa Tomei , Anjelica Huston , Alfred Molina , Chazz Palminteri , Trini Alvarado
Director: Mira Nair
Marisa Tomei releases her inner spitfire in The Perez Family. Dottie Perez (Tomei) comes to the U.S. from Cuba, along with a mixed lot of criminals, lunatics, and political prisoners--including Juan Perez (Alfred Molina), who hopes to be reunited with his wife after 20 years. To work around the bureaucratic politics of the refugee camps, Dottie persuades Juan to pretend that they're married, and drafts a few other Perezes to create a family. Meanwhile, Juan's wife Carmella believes that Juan never arrived and is finally letting go of his memory, helped by the attentions of a Miami police detective (Chazz Palmintieri). Tomei's sexy passion sometimes spills over into silliness and the story unfolds erratically, but the examination of how love grows and how love fades is sincere and affecting. The actors are charismatic, the music's fantastic, and Tomei wears many skimpy outfits. Directed by Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding). --Bret Fetzer

The Mambo Kings [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Armand Assante , Antonio Banderas , Cathy Moriarty , Maruschka Detmers , Pablo Calogero
Director: Arne Glimcher
This period drama is hot, hot, hot. Stylish and sexy, it is adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, by Oscar Hijuelos, the story of two brothers who flee from Cuba in the early 1950s, heading for New York. Hoping to make a name for themselves as famous musicians, the duo face hardships and painful discoveries along the way. Armand Assante is the older of the two, with a smoldering Antonio Banderas as his younger, more impetuous brother. (In his first English-speaking role, Banderas delivered all of his lines phonetically.) The pulsating, sweaty energy of the first half of the film is not sustained throughout. Partly this is because a movie about the rise and fall of minor celebrities has been done to death. Even when the action slows down, however, the story does not bore. There is too much sensuality and vitality exuded by both Assante and Banderas. --Rochelle O'Gorman

Celia Cruz & Friends: A Night of Salsa [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Celia Cruz , Isidro Infante , India , Pedro Knight , Johnny Pacheco
Director: Jay Whitsett
SALSA! It's hot! If you love Latino music you're going to love the sounds of the "Royal Family of Salsa" - The Queen, Celia Cruz, the King of Timbales, Tito Puente and the new Princess of Salsa, La India. Get into this sizzling, sexy beat as these smashing artists heat up your evening with classic Caribbean music and new Salsa rhythms. Move and groove to a little Merengue, too, as you witness a colorful performance that includes such songs as Mi Vida es Cantar, Carnival, Babalu Medley, Quimbara and many others.

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Vh1: Latino [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Celia Cruz , Tito Puente

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