[AGL] What are your favorite 10 films of all time? HAYEK NOT CRUZ

[Clementine Hall]

MY ERROR - I TYPED CRUZ WHEN I MEANT HAYEK!!!!

 

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Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 6:37 PM
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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 <mailto:chall at bsralaw.com>  

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	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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	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? 

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