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

[Wayne Johnson]

Well...some might say that there is proof of God's existence in itself.

wgJ
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  From: Clementine Hall 
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  Madonna was planning to make a movie of Frida's life and star in it herself, but Salma beat her to it. 



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  From: austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net [mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Gerry
  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 

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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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    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.



    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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      Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:41 PM

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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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