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

[michele mason]

How did you come to know her? Its wonderful.  mm

On Nov 27, 2006, at 9:26 PM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:


> Back about 10 years ago a guy picked me up for a date and spied a 

> Frida poster on my wall (the one with a lace headdress around her 

> face); he laughed, and replied to my quizzical expression "the last 

> six women that I have gone out with had a Frida poster on the wall" - 

> women (and men too, I suppose) are fascinated by her. I have twice 

> visited her home in Coyoacan (once on the anniversary of her death).

>  

> The scenes in the movie of the paintings that came alive took my 

> breath away.

>  

> Frida Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón in her 

> parents' house in Coyoacán - July 7, 1907

>> ----- Original Message -----

>> From: Gerry

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

>> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 8:37 PM

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

>>

>> 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.

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>> G

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