April 28 movie: Benny Moré: Hoy Como Ayer. This movie was incredibly frustrating. I thought it was going to be all performances. Like all those Louis Jordan and Nat King Cole collections we rented last year. I was so psyched about sitting down to two hours of Moré's incredible voice. Well no, actually it was a documentary, mostly interviews with his contemporaries and a few songs here and there. What frustrated me the most was when they would show about thirty seconds of a song, and when it would start to get really good they would cut away to another interview. Also, parts of the movie seem to have been copied from a worn-out videotape. The image jumps and is scratchy and you hear that distortion that happens when the tape is starting to stretch.
It's not fair of me to blame this movie for being what it is, not what I wanted it to be. I probably would have enjoyed it immensely if I had been in the mood for it.
Also, the movie called him "Benny" but my albums call him "Beny." Not sure which is correct.
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