However, the truth remains that, in interviews, QT has obviously never met a sentence he didn’t like.) Quentin Tarentino and Robert Rodriguez relax on the setīut, perhaps, even more engaging (especially for people planning a career in the movie biz) are the interview clips with members of the crew.
Tarentino boasts to Kelly “I could sleep with any woman on this set.” (Hey, I’m a fan. During a weekend away from the set, Juliette Lewis sings karaoke in a bar and a smalltown hottie flirts with George Clooney. Oh sure, there are shots of the stars at play. The result is a candid look at “no frills” filmmaking. Sara Kelly had worked as Tarentino’s personal assistant and no one seemed to notice (or, possibly, took it seriously) when the 26 year old aspiring documentarian showed up with a camera and started shooting footage behind the scenes. Instead, it is a fascinating (at least, to me) look at the filming of From Dusk Till Dawn, a 1990s cult film fave directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-written (and co-starring) Quentin Tarentino. No, this is not a documentary about Janis Joplin’s back-up band. What did director Julie Taymor say the role called for in a DVD featurette I saw several years ago … hang on, I’ll have to check my notes …. The trolley and you,” sh e snaps at Rivera, “You are by far the worst” ) and the misguided affair with Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky (Geoffrey Rush) Kahlo’s slow agonizing recovery her stormy marriage to fellow artist and notorious womanizer Diego Rivera, played by Alfred Molina ( “There have been two big accidents in my life. ( Frida was also nominated for art direction, set decoration and costume design and won Oscars for music and makeup.) Salma Hayek in Frida Every detail of the film complements the narrative and sheds light into the troubled soul of the title character.
Kahlo’s true life story to the screen, she earned a Best Actress Academy Award nomination in the title role. While watching Salma Hayek perform a deliciously wicked stripper dance in From Dusk to Dawn can be undeniably entertaining I wouldn’t have placed her at the top of the list to play a complex, gifted woman like Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.Īfter all, both Madonna and Jennifer Lopez were rumored to be working on projects of their own, based on the life of the celebrated female icon.Īnd yet less than ten years after her brief but fondly remembered role in Dusk Till Dawn the dark-eyed Latino beauty had not only brought her own version of Ms.
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