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

[Jon Ford]

Clementine-- she does have a play about Frida, for sure-- I just ordered  
from Amazon a copy of an anthology of Latina playrights that contains the 
play-- don't know too much about it, but I'll let you know when it arrives.

Jon


>From: "Clementine Hall" <chall at bsralaw.com>

>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

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

>60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

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

>Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 13:20:32 -0800

>

>Good grief - I had no idea there existed a Migdalia Cruz!!!  I have read

>a number of interesting biographies of Frida and have a number of

>picture books of her works.  Love them dearly.  I think I would love

>them even had I never met Frida.  Thanks for telling me about Migdalia.

>

>

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

>From: austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net

>[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-bounces at pairlist.net] On Behalf Of Jon Ford

>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 12:55 PM

>To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net

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

>

>Gerry--She's talking about Migdalia Cruz, "one of the most prominent

>Latina

>playwrights in the United States" according to some website I checked

>out,

>who wrote a play about Frida. Mybe it's also a movie. But why not check

>out

>some of the many interesting biographies of Frida, which are much more

>informative?

>

>Jon

>

>

> >From: "Gerry" <mesmo at gilanet.com>

> >Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the

> >60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

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

> >60s"<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

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

> >Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:37:00 -0700

> >

> >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

> >

> >

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

> >   From: Clementine Hall

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

> >   Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:17 PM

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

> >

> >

> >   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.

> >

> >

> >

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

> >   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

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

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

> >

> >

> >

> >   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

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

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

> >

> >     From: Fontaine Maverick

> >

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

> >

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

> >

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

> >

> >

> >

> >     Cinema Paradiso, yes!

> >

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

> >

> >       From: CAUS at aol.com

> >

> >       To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net

> >

> >       Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 7:59 PM

> >

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

> >

> >

> >

> >       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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