[AGL] What are your favorite 10 films of all time?

[Fontaine Maverick]

Somewhere there is a picture of Clementine as a child either in Frida's 
garden or maybe even with Frida (Kahlo). I will look back and see if I have 
saved it.
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> Tina,

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> How did you get to know Frida Kallo?

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

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> Mike

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> From: "Clementine Hall" <chall at bsralaw.com>

> To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"

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> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 5:17 PM

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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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> From: austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net

> [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Gerry

> Sent: Thursday, November 23, 2006 6:57 AM

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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.

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

> forgotten about it.

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> 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.

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> G

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> From: Fontaine Maverick <mailto:fmaverick at austin.rr.com>

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> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:41 PM

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> Cinema Paradiso, yes!

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> From: CAUS at aol.com

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> Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:59 PM

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> Subject: Re: [AGL] What are your favorite 10 films of

> all time?

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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?

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