Havana (1990)

Havana has a dilapidated ruined beauty - decaying grandeur alongside squalor with a string atmosphere of Africa and Old Spain. Despite the political turmoil of Cuba's last 30 years, its people remain among the most imaginative and fascinating in the world. Under the dictatorship of Castro, Cuba has become a highly regulated state to say the least. Director Jana Bokova persuaded the citizens of Havana to talk about their lives, their city and Cuba, despite their anxieties and fears about opening up to a foreign film crew.

1958. Cuba is experiencing prerevolutionary rumblings, and he has a theory that gamblers are more adventuresome when the bullets start flying. Once he arrives, he ends up falling in with revolutionaries and meets a glamorous Swede named Bobby Duran and her wealthy husband, revolutionary leader Arturo Duran. Suddenly Jack finds himself making radical gestures, braving financial loss and life-threatening situations in an attempt to save her from dictator Batista’s men. Sexual attraction slowly leads the way to political awareness, matching the amount of time it takes for the beginnings of social change. Pollack and Redford’s seventh collaboration has a dramatic romantic sweep that’s augmented by crisp luminous images that create a sense of heightened reality.

1958. Cuba is experiencing prerevolutionary rumblings, and he has a theory that gamblers are more adventuresome when the bullets start flying. Once he arrives, he ends up falling in with revolutionaries and meets a glamorous Swede named Bobby Duran and her wealthy husband, revolutionary leader Arturo Duran…

Here's a collection of the Ramones', early albums for the first time pressing in Japan onto compact discs. It contains all studio albums (excepting "Subterranean Jungle") from the "Ramones" (1976) to "Too Tough To Die (1984). All these CDs have a different mastering than been presented on the original American/European CDs and, as well, on the remastered CDs, – the sound is more rawer and less polished. Also, into collection has added "It's Alive" - the album recorded live at the Rainbow Theatre in London on 31/12/77 featuring 20 tracks instead of the 28 on the double LP.

The Ramones saved Rock 'N' Roll. Assigned a mission by a muse so bored with the mechanical dance rhythms and vapid love songs of the middle 70's-a period of popular music wallowing in its own excremental excesses, the likes of which we hadn't experienced since the pre-Beatles 60's-this Goddess cast the fate of four lads from Queens to blast pop culture from its post-Watergate doldrums…