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Featuring original interviews and stunning footage of some of Havana’s most famous movie houses, Errol Flynn’s Ghost chronicles the enduring cultural impact of American movies in Cuba, while recalling the last great real-life adventure of Hollywood swashbuckler Errol Flynn — the Cuban revolution.
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Errol Flynn’s Ghost to Screen at NHdocs
It’s our New England premiere! Catch Errol Flynn’s Ghost when it screens at the 2019 New Haven Documentary Film Festival.
Showtime is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 6, at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. See you there!
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Errol Flynn’s Ghost Wins Gold Remi Award
We’re proud to announce that Errol Flynn’s Ghost is the winner of a Gold Remi Award at the 2019 Worldfest-Houston International Film Festival, the oldest independent film festival in the world.
More screenings to come!
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Errol Flynn’s Ghost Headed to Miami Film Festival
The film festival tour continues! Next up: The 2019 Miami Film Festival, with a screening at yet another historic venue: The Tower Theater in Little Havana.
And if that weren’t enough, Latin culture website Remezcla has named Errol Flynn’s Ghost a must-see movie at this year’s festival.
Errol Flynn’s Ghost plays the Tower on Wednesday, April 6.
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Jersey Journal Profiles Errol Flynn’s Ghost
Thanks to David Menzies for this great story in The Jersey Journal.
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Errol Flynn’s Ghost to Premiere at Golden Door
Delighted to announce Errol Flynn’s Ghost will have its world premiere at this year’s Golden Door International Film Festival for any number of reasons, not least of which is the main venue: the Loew’s Jersey Theatre, one of the real architectural jewels of the golden era of movie palaces.
Errol Flynn’s Ghost will screen at the 2018 Golden Door International Film Festival in Jersey City on Sunday, September 23.
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Movie Theatre Magic
As Errol Flynn’s Ghost: Hollywood in Havana nears completion, we thought we’d give you a sneak preview of some of the movie theatres featured in the film. From top to bottom, the interior of the famed Teatro América (reminiscent of Radio City Music Hall) in central Havana, the interior of the Sierra Maestra (formerly the Lutgardita) in Boyeros, and the neon-lit marquee of the Riviera, in Havana’s Vedado district.
All images copyright Hammer and Nail Productions 2018.
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Flynn Meets Fidel
Flynn biographer Thomas McNulty (Errol Flynn: The Life and Career) discusses the improbable meeting between Flynn and Fidel Castro in late 1958.The encounter between Flynn and Castro has inspired at least one novel (Boyd Anderson’s Errol, Fidel, and the Cuban Rebel Girls) and served as a backdrop for the narrative film The Last of Robin Hood (starring Kevin Kline as Flynn). We don’t need fictional license. The real story is unbelievable enough.
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A Cuban rebel fighter and confidante of Fidel Castro in the 1950s, today Max Lesnik is a radio commentator and the director of Alianza Martiana, an organization dedicated to the principle of Latin American sovereignty. Lesnik is also a lover of Classical Hollywood and a master storyteller. In this clip, he describes the regular presence of Hollywood movie stars in Havana in the 1940s and 1950. Lesnik, it turns out, had a personal brush with one of them: Errol Flynn. As Lesnik recalls, Flynn was in Havana with a camera crew (shooting footage for what would eventually become the semi-documentary Cuban Story) during the first weeks of 1959, around the time the rebels rode in. “There’s a shot of some rebels standing in front of a building, and I’m in that group,” Lesnik told us, adding, “I always wanted to thank Flynn for introducing me to the American public.”
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