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

[Gerry]

Aha! I found her horoscope! Typed "Frida horoscope" into Google...

I was right about some things, and dead wrong about others. Frida was a Cancer with the Moon on the cusp of Gemini and Taurus, and Leo rising. She had an opposition of the Sun with a Mars/Uranus conjunction, a terrible accident and great pain but also a genuine love of work and tremendous energy. Her Sun was also conjunct Neptune (dead on) and Jupiter (a bit farther away) which gave her an escape route from the pain and a generally youthful and optimistic point of view...very spacey. One has to wonder about what drugs she must have been given for the pain and the possibility that she might have become addicted to them...Her Venus was in Gemini and conjunct with Pluto, a proclivity for reinventing herself sexually. 

Salma is a Virgo. She shares Saturn in Pisces with Frida but little else astrologically.  The physical similarity is amazing. She is a Mexican who came to the US (legally, I presume) and mastered English after great success as a soap actress in Mexico (a big deal down there). Her obsession with the movie has made her into quite a heroine among feminists the world over, not to mention her popularity among men (named one of the sexiest women in the world by Esquire magazine). 
G


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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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  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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    From: Fontaine Maverick 

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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? 
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