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Andy Garcia: Lost City
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Andy Garcia not only starred in the 2006 release , "The Lost City," but he produced and directed it as well. Set in Havana, Cuba, during the 50's, the film concerns a club owner who is caught in the turbulent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro's regime ultimately leads the club owner to flee to New York.
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Andy Garcia produced, directed and stars in The Lost City. He even wrote the music. He tells Scott Simon about the film, based on a screenplay by the late novelist Guillermo Cabrera-Infante. It takes place in 1950s Havana on the brink of the Cuban revolution.
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Two years after Garcia was born, Cuba became embroiled in revolution, and in January 1959 Fidel Castro assumed power in that country. Garcia's father lost his property as a result of Castro's confiscation of land from private owners. In 1961 the U.S. government backed an invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro forces. That invasion effort failed and caused many Cuban residents to flee to Spain or the U.S. for safety. In the midst of this political turmoil, when Garcia was five years old, he and his family moved to Miami, Florida. Once in Miami, Garcia attended the local high school, where he played basketball for a time.
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In 2005, Garcia made his feature film directorial debut with The Lost City, a project he had been developing for 17 years. He ... starred with Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray in the film, which was produced in association with Garcia's production company, CineSon Productions. In addition, Garcia composed the original score for the film and also produced the soundtrack, which features several legends from the Cuban music world. For The Lost City, Garcia earned Best Director and Best Film Awards at the 2006 Imagen Awards. He also just received a Best Director Award nomination at the 2007 ALMA Awards.
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Garcia’s first major break was in Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables, in 1987, and he received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his supporting role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part III (1990). He went on to make strong impressions in Dead Again with Kenneth Branagh (1991), When a Man Loves a Woman with Meg Ryan (1994), and Twisted with Samuel L. Jackson (2004). While continuing to act, he ... made his feature directorial debut in 2006 with The Lost City, which he starred in, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Bill Murray. And as a percussionist (bongos and congas) and pianist, Garcia has won two Grammy Awards for CDs he performed on and produced in 1994 and 2005.
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Andy Garcia blew it big-time with his movie The Lost City. He blew it with the mainstream critics that is. Almost unanimously, they're ripping a movie 16 years in the making. In this engaging drama of a middle-class Cuban family crumbling during free Havana's last days, in which he both directs and stars, Garcia insisted on depicting some historical truth about Cuba – a grotesque and unforgivable blunder in his industry. He's now paying the price.
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