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Buena Vista Social Club: The link between Ry Cooder - who found the aged and unemployed Buena Vista Social Club musicians in Havana - and Wim Wenders, who shot this documentary about them, lies in a friendship which first came about when Cooder scored the movie Paris, Texas for the German director (he also scored The End Of Violence). Wenders was 'inspired by Ry's passion' to turn the cameras on Cooder in this Oscar-nominated documentary which tracks the aged Cuban artists (including Ibrahim Ferrer, Ruben Gonzalez [pictured], Omara Portuondo and Compay Segundo) from Havana to New York and even Amsterdam for a series of sell-out shows which took place in the summer of 1998. Incidentally, back home in Havana, the Buena Vista musicians are fondly referred to as Los Superabuelos (the super-grandfathers) - some in the group tip the scales over 90.