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

[Fontaine Maverick]

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
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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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