After después de 1959    Cine Cubano

The Cuban Revolutionary period marks the years from 1959 to the present. In 1959 the Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry (ICAIC) was founded and  in 1960 the "Cuban Cine" magazine, sponsored by the ICAIC. In that same year Tomás Gutiérrez Alea presented his Historias de la revolución, the first non-documentary film, and Julio García Espinosa his Cuba Dances.

Películas Films

Amor Vertical (1997)
Azucar Amarga (1996)...aka Bitter Sugar
Bataille des Dix Millions, La (1970) 
Buena Vista Social Club (1999)
Estorvo (2000)
Fresa y Chocolate (1993)...aka Strawberry & Chocolate
Guantanamera (1994)
Letters from the Park (1988)
Lista de espera (2000)
Lucia (1968)
Madagascar (1994)
Mariposas en el Andamio (1995)...aka Butterflies on the Scaffold

Memorias del Subdesarrollo (1968)...aka Memories of Underdevelopment The film centers on a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, but too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society. Read a review from The New York Times.

La Muerte de un Burócrata(1966)...aka Death of a Bureaucrat
Retrato de Teresa (1979)...aka Portrait of Teresa
Si Me Comprendieras (1998)
Soy Cuba/Ya Kuba (1964...aka I Am Cuba

La Ultima Cena (1976)...aka The Last Supper
The Last Supper is based on a story about a slaveholder who in 1790 decided to replicate Jesus' act of washing his disciples' feet.  Read more about this film here.

Vampiros en La Habana (1985)
El Verano de la Señora Forbes (1988)
La Vida es Silbar (1998)

Libros y artículos  Books and articles

Adelman, Alan. ed. A Guide to Cuban Cinema. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1981. (Out of Print) 
Chanan, Michael. The Cuban Image: Cinema and Cultural Politics in Cuba. Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1985. (Out of Print)
Ilf, and, Petrov. The Twelve Chairs. Trans. John H.C. Richardson. 2nd ed. Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2000.
Mraz, John. Recasting Cuban Slavery: The Other Francisco and the Last Supper. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Ed. Donald D. Stevens. Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1997. pages 103-123.
Weinstein, Barbara. Lucia: Inventing Women's History on Film. Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies. Ed. Donald F. Stevens. Delaware: Scholarly Resources, 1997. pages 123-143.