Catalog - The City Library

Format:

Blu-ray Disc, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Title:

La bamba / Columbia Pictures presents a New Visions production ; produced by Taylor Hackford and Bill Borden ; written and directed by Luis Valdez.

Edition:

Director-approved Blu-ray special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[New York] : The Criterion Collection, [2023]

Description:

1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital

optical

video file

Blu-ray

Summary:

The brief but incandescent life of rock-and-roll trailblazer Ritchie Valens is immortalized in this enthralling biopic from another Mexican American icon, Luis Valdez, the father of Chicano cinema. With sweetness and swagger, Lou Diamond Phillips embodies the 1950s California teenager who, forged by his fiercely supportive mother and rebellious brother, rises from his farm-working roots to chart-topping fame in the early days of rock, until one fateful night that haunts music history. Propelled by a hip-shaking soundtrack featuring Los Lobos and Carlos Santana, this film captures the electric vitality of an artist who bridged cultures to create his own American dream.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 1193

Criterion collection ; 1193.

Subjects:

Valens, Ritchie, 1941-1959 -- Drama.

Rock musicians -- United States -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction films.

Other Author:

Valdez, Luis, film director.