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

[michele mason]

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.  mm

On Nov 29, 2006, at 9:07 AM, Fontaine Maverick wrote:


> Not me. I am just a middle aged (until Monday, when I turn 60) groupie.

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

>> From: michele mason

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

>> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 8:59 AM

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

>>

>> 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.

>>>>  

>>>> G

>>>>  

>>>>  

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