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Frida Kahlo de Rivera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954), born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón, was a Mexican painter known for her self-portraits.
Kahlo's life began and ended in Mexico City, in her home known as the Blue House. Her work has been celebrated in Mexico as emblematic of national and indigenous tradition, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
Mexican culture and tradition are important in her work, which has been sometimes characterized as naïve art or folk art. Her work has also been described as surrealist, and in 1938 André Breton, principal initiator of the surrealist movement, described Kahlo's art as a "ribbon around a bomb". Frida rejected the "surrealist" label; she believed that her work reflected more of her reality than her dreams.
Kahlo had a volatile marriage with the famous Mexican artist Diego Rivera. She suffered lifelong health problems, many caused by a traffic accident she survived as a teenager. Recovering from her injuries isolated her from other people, and this isolation influenced her works, many of which are self-portraits of one sort or another. Kahlo suggested, "I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best." She also stated, "I was born a bitch. I was born a painter."
Actors: Zorinah Juan (miscellaneous crew), Ryan Silbert (producer), Ryan Silbert (actor), George Katt (actor), Josiah Signor (writer), Josiah Signor (director), Josiah Signor (writer), Alexandre Rockwell (producer), Peter O'Leary (actor), Malgosia Turzanska (costume designer), Danielle Morgan (actress), Robert Profusek (actor), Robert Profusek (producer), Brian Berrebbi (actor), Anna Margaret Hollyman (actress),
Plot: Four early-30s friends meet at what ends up being their last annual Halloween party; but instead of celebrating career success are forced to confront darker realities: adultery, divorce, pregnancy - the basic issues that make adulthood more complicated than anyone expects it will be.
Keywords: adultery, divorce, pregnancy, three-word-titleActors: Rita Moreno (actress), Leon Trotsky (actor), Dalton Delan (producer), Lila Downs (actress), Peter Heady (miscellaneous crew), David S. Thompson (producer), Amy Stechler (director), Diego Rivera (actor), Amy Stechler (editor), Amy Stechler (writer), Amy Stechler (producer), Jeanine Cowen (composer), Maia Harris (producer), Victor Zamudio Taylor (producer),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Andrei Boncea (producer), Andy Garcia (producer), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Andrei Boncea (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Elsa Zylberstein (actress), Udo Kier (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Ernest Maftei (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Guy Farley (composer),
Plot: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, modigliani, montparnasse, one-word-titleActors: Patricia Reyes Spíndola (actress), Julie Weiss (costume designer), Salma Hayek (actress), Valeria Golino (actress), Ashley Judd (actress), Salma Hayek (producer), Saffron Burrows (actress), Edward Norton (actor), Geoffrey Rush (actor), Diego Luna (actor), Roger Rees (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Alfred Molina (actor), Joy Ellison (miscellaneous crew), Mark Amin (producer),
Plot: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and controversial affair with Leon Trotsky, to her provocative and romantic entanglements with women, Frida Kahlo lived a bold and uncompromising life as a political, artistic, and sexual revolutionary.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, accident, adulterous-wife, adultery, amusement-park, art, art-exhibition, art-modelActors: Claudia Ferri (actress), Philippe Ralet (editor), Claude Despins (actor), André Leduc (director), Frida Kahlo (actress), Bernar Hébert (producer), Aurora Lescale (producer), Julie Aubé (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Rita Bendek (actress), Jessica Grossman (writer), Jessica Grossman (composer), Jessica Grossman (director), Jessica Grossman (editor), Viridiana Molinares (costume designer), Viridiana Molinares (actress), Luis Ernesto Arocha (composer), Mónica Gontovnik (actress), Dizzie Trillos (actress), Beatriz Camacho (actress), Paola Dangond (actress), Orietta (actress), Alejandra Trillos (actress), Alberto Velilla (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Musical, Short,Actors: Brian Keane (composer), Philip Bosco (actor), Steven Culp (actor), Julio Medina (actor), Rosanna DeSoto (actress), Donald Symington (actor), Margaret Hall (actress), Ted Sorel (actor), Ron Parady (actor), Mary Lance (director), Mary Lance (producer), Sara Fishko (editor), Eric Breitbart (writer), Eric Breitbart (producer), John Hutton (actor),
Genres: Biography, Documentary,Actors: Del Zamora (producer), Del Zamora (writer), Del Zamora (director), Del Zamora (editor), Rosemarie Lagunas (actress),
Plot: This short film, gives us a brief glimpse, into the private study of Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo, as she paints, drinks, smokes, and pontificates her unique point of view of life, love and death. A dead ringer for Frida Kahlo, Rosemarie Lagunas, shines as Frida, making us smile and remember the feral nature of Frida Kahlo, who was decades ahead of her time. That is the reason, Frida's work still resonates today. Shot wonderfully, by the gifted Tom Richmond.
Keywords: character-name-in-titleActors: Rafael Castanedo (editor), Bruno Bichir (actor), Gina Morett (actress), Claudio Brook (actor), Salvador Sánchez (actor), Paul Leduc (director), Ofelia Medina (actress), Paul Leduc (writer), Max Kerlow (actor), Pedro Altamirano (actor), Odiseo Bichir (actor), Juan Ángel Martínez (actor), Manuel Barbachano Ponce (producer), Juan José Gurrola (actor), Paloma Woolrich (actress),
Plot: The most prominent female painter of Latin America, Frida Kahlo, is agonizing in her Coyoacán home. She evokes memories of her childhood, of the streetcar accident that caused her terrible pain and affliction, her friendship with Trotsky and painter Alfaro Siqueiros, her marriage to Diego Rivera, her miscarriage, her political commitment, her love affairs and the anticipated exhibition of her works.
Keywords: amputee, artist, mexican-history, muralism, polio, radical, wheelchairFall asleep under blood and the moon
A canopy of flowers as the sun sets too soon
My adolescence stolen by accident
Joy is always fleeting, sorrow permanent
And I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
My legs grow roots and attach me to the earth
My dark red tears express what the pain is worth
With his face on my forehead I have nothing to hide
You can never kill me 'cause I've already died
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
Hey...
Our crowd falls back into the street
Save for my beloved who stands flushed form the heat
From the furnace burns my suffering away
My dust are paper Judas on a summer's day
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone
I am alone