This edition: Lejanía (The Parting of the Ways)
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Original tape date: May 17, 1989. First aired: May 17, 1989.Lejanía (The Parting of the Ways) (1985/Cuba; 90 min. color, sound) Dir. Jesús Díaz. Cast: Verónica Lynn, Jorge Trinchet, Isabel Santos. The life of a Cuban worker is confronted when his mother, who flew to Miami abandoning him when he was an adolescent, announces her arrival and intention to stay with him, in her old apartment in La Habana. (IMDB)
On this episode of Cinema Then, Cinema Now, Professor Jerry Carlson (College of Staten Island) sits down with Dan Georgeakas (Editor, Cineaste) and Sandra Levinson (Executive Director, The Center for Cuban Studies) to discuss Jesús Díaz's Lejanía. Part of series on new Latin American cinema of the past twenty-five years.
Other topics of discussion include:
Divided families between Cuba and U.S.
The Cuban film industry
Memories of Underdevelopment by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Recorded on May 17th, 1989 at the Borough Manhattan Community College Media Center.
This program was digitized, captioned, and made accessible in 2021 as part of ""Uncovering CUNY'S Audiovisual Heritage,"" a preservation project funded by Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)."
Guest List
Prof. Jerry Carlson Professor of Film Studies, City College of New York
Dan Georgeakas Editor, Cineaste
Sandra Levinson Executive Director, The Center for Cuban Studies
