Rubén Blades
Nascimento : 1948-07-16, Panama City, Panama
História
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Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna (born July 16, 1948) is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres. As songwriter, Blades brought the lyrical sophistication of Central American nueva canción and Cuban nueva trova as well as experimental tempos and political inspired Nuyorican salsa to his music, creating thinking persons' (salsa) dance music. Blades has composed dozens of musical hits, the most famous of which is "Pedro Navaja," a song about a neighborhood thug who appears to die during a robbery (his song "Sorpresas" continues the story), inspired by "Mack the Knife." He also composed and sings what many Panamanians consider their second national anthem. The song is titled "Patria" (Fatherland). He is an icon in Panama and is much admired throughout Latin America, and managed to attract 18% of the vote in his failed attempt to win the Panamanian presidency in 1994. In September 2004, he was appointed minister of tourism by Panamanian president Martín Torrijos for a five-year term. He holds a law degree from the University of Panama and a master's in international law from Harvard University. He is married to singer Luba Mason.
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Self (archive footage)
When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish Harlem and the Bronx, neighborhoods plagued by poverty, drugs and crime, Hispanic identity was reborn and strengthened, thanks to a syncretic and intentionally popular music that eventually conquered the entire city.
Rocky
Set over Halloween weekend 2020, this political thriller follows six friends as they head into "red" country to canvas white women to vote. They are armed with idealism and determination, but they should have brought heavy artillery. As they explore the creepy house they booked for the weekend distressing clues indicate that they should get out of there, but they decide to stay. They should have brought heavy artillery.
Self
Raúl Juliá: The World’s a Stage is a warm and revealing portrait of the charismatic, groundbreaking actor’s journey from his native Puerto Rico to the creative hotbed of 1960s New York City, to prominence on Broadway and in Hollywood. Filled with passion, determination and joy, Juliá’s brilliant and daring career was tragically cut short by his untimely death at age 54.
Self
In this one-man Broadway show, John Leguizamo finds humor and heartbreak as he traces 3,000 years of Latin history in an effort to help his bullied son.
Self
The story of one of Latin America's most beloved singer-songwriters in a journey across his 50-year career. In an intimate way, the film gives us a chance to get to know the artist, his music, and the stories behind them.
Carlos Eleta
O boxista panamense Roberto Dúran é treinado por Ray Arcel e juntos fazem história nos ringues. O atleta trilha uma carreira brilhante e ganha o apelido Mãos de Pedra, vencendo outros grandes nomes do boxe, como Sugar Ray Leonard. Em 119 combates o boxeador conquista nada menos que 103 vitórias.
More than a genre, salsa was a cultural movement that arose in a time of need for strengthening the Latino culture and spread across the world with such force that, 50 years later, is still moving the feet of dancers in the most inhospitable corners world. At the heart of the movement is the figure of Johnny Pacheco, know as one of the great musical legacies responsible for salsa music.
Jefe
Um advogado, prestes a se casar e precisando de dinheiro, acaba se envolvendo em um esquema de tráfico de drogas que fracassa. Logo, todos são visados por um cartel mexicano. Enquanto os outros parceiros têm experiência no crime e sabem como escapar, o advogado não sabe como agir. Sem escapatória, este homem perturbado começa a refletir sobre seus atos, tendo que aceitar as consequências brutais de seu envolvimento no crime.
Président Calles
Cristiada narra a história fantástica da Guerra Cristera (1926-1929), iniciada pela tentativa do governo mexicano de suprimir a liberdade de culto. O Filme mostra a realidade desconhecida por muitos Católicos.
Carlos Villar
Tobin Frost é um ex-agente da CIA procurado pela Agência por traição. Ele é perseguido por mercenários ao negociar um dispositivo eletrônico na Cidade do Cabo e sua única alternativa é pedir proteção ao agente Weston.
Homage to Puerto Rican composer Catalino Curet Alonso, or as his friends and fans call him, "Tite", representing how widely influential the composer remains.
Benito
Emotionally battered by the paternal relationship with her husband, Eva is a young immigrant photographer, a misfit who strives to find the perfect light. Her passion for life itself is drying like leaves in winter. A letter written by Eva's mother brings her rebirth, fixing like a photograph in her memory the unique moment she had been waiting for.
Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live tour "Todos Vuelven". It has been seen by over one million people worldwide.
Celebrated actor, political activist, songwriter, and multiple Grammy Award winning performer Rubén Blades returned to the stage with the live tour "Todos Vuelven". It has been seen by over one million people worldwide.
Cruz-Sr.
A San Francisco spoken word artist returns to New Mexico to be with his dying father, only to find he loses his "voice" as he is sucked back in to the dysfunctional life of drugs and violence he left behind.
Musical documentary film about the similarities between two types of music genres known as Salsa and Reggaeton. The clave is the five-note two-bar rhythm pattern which generates rhythmic measurement and is the foundation and backbone of Salsa and all Afro-Cuban based music.
The film includes highlights of the Banco Popular's music specials, whose production started in 1993.
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The Hunters and the Hunted: The Making of Predator 2 is a 2005 documentary that details the production of the 1990 film Predator 2. Created for the Predator 2: Special Edition DVD set, it uses interviews with the film's cast and crew, as well as behind the scenes footage and imagery, to examine the development, filming and release of the movie.
Rubén Blades
The illusion and joy of Christmas arrives from the four cardinal points of Latin America. The film recreates a typical Christmas party with Puerto Rican and Latin American artists, whom convey how Christmas is celebrated in their countries.
Carla's Father
Em Caracas, o sequestro é um negócio próspero para gangues que têm como alvo famílias ricas. Mas quando Carla e seu noivo são levados por bandidos brutais, nada sai como planejado e os envolvidos devem agir como se suas vidas estivessem em risco!
Ernesto
Filme de drama americano de 2003 estrelado por Ryan Merriman, Stanley Tucci, Dana Delany, Paula Garcés e Rubén Blades. Foi lançado no Cannes Film Market em 17 de maio de 2004 e foi lançado nos Estados Unidos em 15 de outubro de 2004. Spin foi adaptado de um romance de Donald Everett Axinn.
Silvio Ayala
Buenos Aires, 1976. A Jornalista Cecília (Emma Thompson) é levada por agentes da ditadura militar e seu marido Carlos (Antonio Banderas) pressente a tragédia. Ao voltar para casa ele descobre que Cecília foi presa por um grupo de homens não identificados, em carros sem placas. Começa o pesadelo. Aos poucos, ele percebe ter a capacidade de ver o que aconteceu com outros presos políticos de seu país. A notícia se espalha e sua casa se torna um centro de peregrinação de parentes e amigos desesperados, em busca de notícias de seus entes queridos. Agora, Carlos terá de decidir se continua em sua jornada humanitária que o faz sofrer tanto quanto os próprios torturados, ou se nega o seu dom e tenta prosseguir normalmente com sua vida.
Jorge FBI
O barão das drogas Barillo está planejando assassinar o presidente do México e tomar o poder. O corrupto agente da CIA Sands recruta o músico El Mariachi para deter os planos do criminoso. Mariachi estava aposentado desde a morte de sua esposa e filha e não quer mais matar, mas ele pode não ter escolha.
Miguel
John J. (Robert Duvall) é um assassino de aluguel que vai realizar um trabalho na Argentina. Enquanto o general que ele deveria matar se atrasa para retornar ao país, John passa o tempo com Manuela (Luciana Pedraza), uma bonita dançarina que se torna sua professora e o guia para o sensual mundo do tango. Enfeitiçado pelo rico e misterioso ritmo apresentado por Manuela, seu idílio termina quando o real motivo de sua presença ali começa a atormentá-lo.
Cruz
A story about a small, dying town in need of hope until one day a young boy gives them something to believe in.
The social vision of the lives of three Hispanic singer-songwriters who enjoy the favor of Puerto Rican public and Latin America is presented: Rubén Blades, Juan Luis Guerra, and Robi Draco Rosa. Through this special a fitting tribute to the work of composition and artistic interpretation of these three pillars of Latin music is achieved.
Original Music Composer
Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo) é o braço direito de La Colombiana (Isabella Rossellini), a chefona do tráfico de drogas no Bronx. Ele recebe constantemente os apelos de sua namorada, Carmen (Delilah Cotto), para que largue o tráfico e mude de vida, já que a mãe dela (Sônia Braga) o odeia. Victor decide então buscar outras formas de investimento, que lhe permitam seguir a vida, e acaba se aproximando de Jack (Peter Sarsgaard), um jovem negociante que o convence a aplicar na bolsa de valores de Wall Street.
Rocha
Logo após o término da Segunda Guerra Mundial, John Grady (Matt Damon) e Lacey Rawlins (Henry Thomas), dois jovens texanos, retornam à suas casas e logo partem em viagem em direção ao sul, buscando fugir dos problemas de casa e correndo atrás de aventuras. No caminho ganham a companhia de outro parceiro (Lucas Black) e, em terras mexicanas, um deles se envolve com a bela filha (Penélope Cruz) de um fazendeiro local (Rubén Blades).
Diego Rivera
A true story of politics and art in the 1930s USA, centered around a leftist musical drama and attempts to stop its production.
Rubén Blades
Concert in Venezuela at the July 1998 under the AMNISTIA festival. Here Ruben forgets a part of the lyrics and the musicians, although they still play, are surprised at what happened. TrackList 01. Que Sera 02. Pablo Pueblo 03. Idilio 04. Pedro Navaja 05. Gitana 06. Buscando Guayaba 07. El Gran Varon 08. Nacimiento De Ramiro 09. Plástico 10. Plantacion adentro, 11. Homenaje a Hector Lavoe
A made for TV documentary about the creation of Paul Simon and Derek Walcott's controversial and ultimately flop of a music, "The Capeman". Explores the story of the production of the musical as well also the story of Salvador Agron and the Capeman murders.
Jim
The story of Hong Kong, from New Year's Day to June 30th, 1997, when the British left their colony and turned it over to the People's Republic of China.
A testimony about Afro-Cuban popular music from its origins to the present day.
Officer Edwin Diaz
Líder do IRA foge para a Nova York, onde um amigo, para protegê-lo, o coloca morando na casa de um íntegro policial de origem irlandesa, que desconhece sua identidade. Assim, o recém-chegado se integra na família e articula a compra de armamento pesado para levar ao seu país.
The music of the Puerto Rican composer Pedro Flores which was televised on Dec. 8, 1996.
Border Patrolman Sam Zaragosa
On the run from the law, desperate drug runner Astor and his beautiful prisoner struggle through the savage heat...
Presents a bit of the history of the migration of our people, people who came out opening new horizons and looking for new destinations. During that absence, it has been music that has defined us and served to remove barriers and grow closer.
Lt. Hector Martinez
Um psicólogo nova-iorquino fica traumatizado e viaja para Los Angeles depois que um de seus pacientes comete suicídio. Na Califórnia, seu amigo médico é brutalmente assassinado e ele aceita atender alguns de seus pacientes, porém as consequências são assustadoras.
Bartender
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit are repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
Pastor Beruman
A man attempts to rescue people trapped on the I-880 bridge after the top half collapses during the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.
Marlon
Louie Kritski is a heartless landlord who has been so negligent in keeping up his ghetto apartment that he is threatened with jail time. The judge gives him another option -- he must live in his rat-infested hell hole until he brings it up to liveable standards.
Ernesto Ontiveros
A small-town, high-school principal still living at home with her mother shakes up her life in a way that even she never expected when she agrees to go out on a date with her school's Hispanic janitor.
Perrone
Filme baseado na vida real do médico paraguaio Joel Filartiga (Anthony Hopkins de O Silêncio dos Inocentes), que ousou enfrentar o regime militar instaurado pelo violento general Alfredo Strossner no país. Acreditando em seus ideais humanitários, o médico desafia o regime ao oferecer tratamento gratuito aos pacientes pobres. Isso irrita os militares até que Joel tem o filho morto. Ele descobre sinais de tortura no corpo do jovem e passa a acreditar que na verdade ele foi assassinado pelo governo, e não foi vitima de um crime passional como o fizeram a acreditar no princípio. O filme ainda tem a participação da atriz brasileira Fernanda Torres (de Casa de Areia).
Count Giuseppe Pepito Abatino
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
Danny Archuleta
Um alienígena predador, invisível e equipado com armas poderosas, desembarca em Los Angeles, devastada pelo conflito de gangues de traficantes rivais, para iniciar seu festival de matança, deixando um rastro de corpos mutilados em seu caminho.
Mickey Nice
Esta sequência da clássica Chinatown encontra o detetive particular Jake Gittes ainda assombrado pelos eventos do primeiro filme. Contratado por um homem para investigar as infidelidades de sua esposa, Jake mais uma vez se vê envolvido em uma complicada trama envolvendo assassinato, petróleo e até mesmo alguns fantasmas de seu passado.
Petey
Ainda muito jovem, o pequeno Bleek Gilliam (Denzel Washington) era forçado pelos pais a estudar trompete, o que não lhe deixava tempo nenhum para ser criança e brincar com os amigos. Os anos se passaram e finalmente Bleek realiza o sonho de seus pais, tornando-se trompetista profissional. Mas uma forte rivalidade com o saxofonista Shadow Henderson (Wesley Snipes), parece crescer a cada dia, assumindo proporções catastróficas. E, além disso, o estranho Giant (Spike Lee), amigo e empresário de Bleek, é viciado em jogo, causando sérios problemas para todos os músicos da banda.
Original Music Composer
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuses to help him.
Short film directed by Marina Levikova and Yuri Neyman.
C.W.
Three life-long friends work the bars in 1980s Atlantic City performing the songs of the 1960s girl groups.
Carlos Barrios
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang hits the bank vault, it's a safe bet there's going to be organized insanity and disorganized crime!
Ben
A psychiatrist is sent to evaluate if a convicted multiple murderer who's awaiting execution on Death Row for eighth year now and whose behavior during that time got more and more erratic is still mentally fit to be executed.
Music
A documentary about Iran-Contra.
Doctor
Um fracassado boxeador chega a uma cidade para participar de luta e conhece um oportunista que tenta convencê-lo a participar de um assalto.
Sheriff Bernabe Montoya
Na pequena cidade de Milagro, Novo México, onde a água local é um recurso escasso, o obscuro desenvolvedor Ladd Devine planejou construir um resort que acabará por sugar toda a água dos campos vizinhos. Quando o fazendeiro e agricultor Joe Mondragon acidentalmente quebra uma válvula de água reservada para grandes empresas, ele inadvertidamente desencadeia uma guerra de direitos da água em pequena escala entre os agricultores e os desenvolvedores. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Carl Jimenez
Uma policial da divisão de narcóticos investiga a série de mortes causadas por uma remessa de cocaína envenenada. Ao mesmo tempo, conhece um homem que desconfia estar envolvido no caso.
Louis
Uma falha elétrica provoca pane em um grande hospital. Para escapar da cadeia, um criminoso se faz passar por louco e é encaminhado ao setor de psiquiatria.
himself
Robert Mugge's 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades' Panama homeland, his Harvard Master's degree, and a New York performance with his band Seis de Solar all serve as stops on this biographical journey.
Rudy Veloz
Salsa singer screws over everybody on his way to the top; when his latest record flops, his career starts doing downhill.
Songs
Based on the international hit song, Pedro Navaja (Peter the Knife) is the story of the coolest, street smart hustler ever to walk the streets of Mexico City. The police are after him, his rivals are after him, and all the while the most beautiful women of Mexico are in the cup of his hand. - Written by Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Original Music Composer
A documentary on the war between the Guatemalan military and the Mayan population, with first hand accounts by Nobel Peace Prize winner Rigoberta Menchú.
Andy "Kid" Clave
Singer-turned-boxer Andy 'Kid' Clave signs a contract with a shady promoter Joaquin Vargas. But Clave turns against Vargas when the promoter's thugs kill Clave's girlfriend when he thinks about backing out of the contract. While seeking a way to get revenge against Vargas, Clave learns that he has a blood clot in his head. But nothing will deter him from getting his revenge and making a shot at the title.
Music
An upper middle class white young girl leaves her suburban family in shock when she moves in with her lover, an Afro-Latino trumpeter.
