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

[Jon Ford]

Gerry--She's talking about Migdalia Cruz, "one of the most prominent Latina 
playwrights in the United States" according to some website I checked out, 
who wrote a play about Frida. Mybe it's also a movie. But why not check out 
some of the many interesting biographies of Frida, which are much more 
informative?

Jon



>From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>

>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

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

>60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

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

>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:37:00 -0700

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>Cruz's Frida?

>Perhaps I am confused (what else is new?) but the Frida I watched is 

>produced by Sarah Green and Salma Hayek (Jimenez) and directed by Julie 

>Taymor. The DVD rental includes long interviews with both Taymor and Hayek 

>(not unattractive by any standard). She (Hayek) spent 8 years trying to get 

>the movie made. Hayek tells of meeting Frida's niece who was coaxed into 

>attending the movie. She apparently was impressed by Hayek's performance 

>and noted in particular that Hayek managed to capture Frida's physical 

>grace which, according to the niece, was one of her greatest attributes. 

>There is also an interview with Elliot Goldenthal who did the score and 

>with Chavela Vargas, the singer who lived with Frida for 5 years and with 

>the cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and the set designer. I would recommend 

>renting the DVD to watch the interviews.

>

>Having rented it for the weekend I went ahead and watched it again. Once 

>again I was knocked out by the music which won an Oscar for the best 

>original score. Blumenthal is a master of Latin music, at least that which 

>is of the Spanish Latin America. (Don't know about his familiarity with 

>Brazilian music--not quite the same.)

>

>Anyhow, I agree that your father was apparently documentary material. I 

>envy your childhood, the rest must have been somewhat anticlimactic...As 

>for watching Frida, Vida Naturaleza, I will have to put that off. I don't 

>subscribe to Netflix and the selection at my video rental store in a town 

>of 10,000 in the wilds of New Mexico is quite limited. And I have pretty 

>well satisfied my Frida curiosity for the present. (Did you know that 

>Madonna is a great fan of Frida and has quite a collection of her 

>paintings?) I was in our health food coop today and noted amongst the 

>greeting cards was one with a Frida painting...

>

>I wonder what her date of birth was? Tried to find it on the net but could 

>not. I would guess a Venus/Uranus conjunction, possibly with the Moon also. 

>Obviously a strong Mars/Sun aspect and/or an Aries or Scorpio Sun. She was 

>a quite a monster, in the best sense of the word.

>

>G

>

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>   From: Clementine Hall

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

>   Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:17 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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>   -----Original Message-----

>   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.

>

>   G

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>     Cinema Paradiso, yes!

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

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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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