The Lost City R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 23 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 8, 2006
- Originally Released: 2006
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dustin Hoffman & Bill Murray | |
Performer: | Andy Garcia, Inés Sastre & Jsu Garcia | |
Directed by | Andy Garcia | |
Screenwriting by | G. Cabrera Infante | |
Produced by | Frank Mancuso, Jr. | |
Director of Photography: | Emmanuel Kadosh | |
Executive Production by | Andy Garcia |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/6 --
'The Lost City' is intriguing as a historical document and adequate as cinema, but it has a blandness at its core that no amount of spicy mambo and booty-quaking dance routines can disguise.
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Time Out
Production designer Waldemar Kalinowski and costume designer Deborah Lynn Scott do remarkable work in bringing the look of the period to life...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 1.5/5 --
By the half way point I was beginning to take back everything I said re Steven Soderbergh's dull-as-ditchwater Che: Part II - even he manages to drum up more tension than this.
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Eye for Film
[S]plendidly panoramic and drenched in wonderful Cuban music...
New York Times
Rating: 1/5 --
Great music and costumes, but with a woeful plot and jaw-droppingly stilted dialogue. Cuban-born Garcia's main complaint against Fidel seems to be that rich, corrupt Cubans could no longer dance the night away.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
Rating: 2/5 --
Not an embarrassment, but definitely a missed opportunity.
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Sky Cinema
Rating: 2/5 --
There may be a good film here, but it struggles to break free of the cumbersome framework.
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Film4
Product Description:
Andy Garcia stars in, directs, and produces this highly personal movie, a lengthy tale about his native Cuba. THE LOST CITY, a labor of love that Garcia has attempted to film for almost 20 years, was penned by his writer friend, the Cuban exile Guillermo Cabrera Infante, who didn't live to see the film completed. The film is set in Havana, where Garcia plays nightclub owner Fico Fellove, whose life revolves around the thriving scene that unfolds there on a nightly basis. But trouble looms when one of his brothers, Luis (Nestor Carbonell), is killed after a violent raid on the presidential palace. Matters get worse as Fellove's other brother, Ricardo (Enrique Murciano), harboring revolutionary ideas in retaliation for Luis's death, heads out to join the forces gathered by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Meanwhile, Meyer Lansky (Dustin Hoffman), a tough American gangster, puts pressure on Fellove to sell his club and build a new one with mobster money.
In the course of the film, Garcia manages to create the sense that Cuba wasn't really better off before Castro's rise to power--or after. The cast all give fine performances, and Bill Murray drops by to deliver his trademark dry wit as a droll character found among the patrons of Fellove's club. Although the run-time may be off-putting to some, the film is a journey worth taking, as Infante's words are beautifully rendered by Garcia and his cast.
In the course of the film, Garcia manages to create the sense that Cuba wasn't really better off before Castro's rise to power--or after. The cast all give fine performances, and Bill Murray drops by to deliver his trademark dry wit as a droll character found among the patrons of Fellove's club. Although the run-time may be off-putting to some, the film is a journey worth taking, as Infante's words are beautifully rendered by Garcia and his cast.
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- Sales Rank: 43,883
- UPC: 876964000314
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