[AGL] What are your favorite 10 films of all time? - How I met Frida Kahlo.

[Clementine Hall]

My father was military attaché to the American embassy through the 1940's into the 1950's.  He had a passion for unsophisticated art - art outside the establishment - what they used to call "primitive art."  He visited Diego Rivera on several occasions and took me with him.  [He, by the way, deserves a movie of his own - career West Point officer of German descent with some of the most enlightened notions imaginable, an artist himself, a great cook, spoke Cuban, Mexican, Uruguayan and Catalan Spanish like a native of each country, raised in New Braunfels Texas, was totally sympathetic to migrant workers, I could go on and on.  When Daddy visited Diego, I, in turn, visited with Frida.  I have a couple of pictures taken of me with one of her baby goats and a little boy, one of the many children in her very large acquaintance of children, possibly a nephew.  Anyhow, for me she was memorable for two traits - she fed us all incredibly delicious food and she put on wonderful puppet plays entirely acted out and sung by her. By the way, she was far prettier in life than ever on canvas or in photos.  Her face was very pretty and expressive.  If you see Frida, Vida Naturaleza, you can see what she was like with children and with food.  The actor who plays her looks just like she did.  BY THE WAY, THANKS FOR ASKING!!

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Tina,

How did you get to know Frida Kallo?

I take it you're not referring to Frida Miller?

Mike

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Please check out (you can get it on Netflix, I believe, or at the
library):   FRIDA, VIDA NATURALEZA.  This is fictional, just like Cruz's
Frida, but reads like a documentary.  I knew Frida and this movie is so
so so true.  And the music there is also very nice.



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[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Gerry
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After seeing your list I was in town yesterday and rented Frida which I
watched last night. A pretty amazing flick alright with great music and
costumes, amazing color, decent acting, etc. But in the end it is a
woman's movie, an epic melodrama about the poor suffering wives of a
charming philanderer, produced directed inspired and conceived by
women--with a venegance. Must have been a joy to make. Must have cost a
sum about equal to the gross national product of Peru and Ecuador
combined...The singing voice was Lila Downs, very strong and fitting for
the heroine of the movie but not so musical as a thousand other possible
choices among the excellent bolero singers of Mexico.



Anyhow, thanks for the tip. I had read reviews of it awhile back but had
forgotten about it.



A tip for the hearing impaired for whom watching movies has become a
frustrating chore: get a good pair of earphones with a volume control
and plug them into the sound outlet at the back of the computer. Makes a
big difference. I am on the verge of trashing the TV as I did the stereo
and making the computer the home entertainment center for all media.

G





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Cinema Paradiso, yes!

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May I add my favs?  Il Postino, Shirley Valentine,
LaStrada, Cinema Paridiso, Antonia's Line.  Does anyone agree on any of
these?