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Frida
Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film
by Julie Taymor
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Hardcover, 160 pages |
| Publisher: |
Newmarket Press |
| Pub. Date: |
October 2002 |
| ISBN: |
1557045402 |
| Dimensions: |
8.27 × 0.39 × 10.24 inches |
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"One of the most aesthetically pleasing film companion books in years...[it] admirably juxtaposes film stills and reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, making this at once a tribute to the film and the life of the great artist." --Publishers Weekly
The New York Public Library names Frida: Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film to the prestigious "Books for the Teen Age List 2003"
Julie Taymor's brilliantly realized movie Frida comes to life in this magnificent visual book that features more than 170 illustrations, including full-color paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, archival photographs, and stunning images from the making of the film. Shot entirely on location in Mexico, Frida explores the true story of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the larger-than-life painters who became the most acclaimed artists in Mexican history and whose tempestuous love affair, landmark journeys to America, and outrageous personalities have made them icons of the twentieth century.
Included in this gorgeous book are essays by Kahlo biographer Hayden Herrera, award-winning director (The Lion King) Julie Taymor, and actress/producer Salma Hayek, who spent years shepherding this film into production. In addition to the illustrated screenplay, biographies of the real-life characters in the movie, interviews with cast and crew members, and production notes on the locations, music, costume design, and art direction take fans behind the scenes of this seminal movie. Also featured excerpts from the diaries and letters of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, along with fascinating quotes from many of their published biographies.
Covering the years from Kahlo's unbridled high school days to her death at age 47 in 1954, Frida is a celebration of an extraordinary life that took years and years of passionate devotion to bring to the screen, and this book shows why and how that was accomplished. For fans of Frida—the artist, the woman, and the film—this book is both a fabulous treat and an invaluable collector's item.
Frida won two Academy Awards, including Best Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best Makeup, and was nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Actress Salma Hayek, Best Song, Best Costume Design, and Best Art Direction.
"Here, as with Kahlo's world, the visual is paramount, so that the photographs of the actors on set help the reader visualize the script. Excerpts from Herrera's book, as well as from other works about both Kahlo and husband Diego Rivera, help give background to their lives and to the paintings reproduced here. A lively accompaniment to Taymor's film and Herrera's book, this illustrated companion is a good addition to film, biography, and art collections. "—Library Journal
"The film's real visual coup is its re-creation of dozens of remarkable paintings by Kahlo." —Deborah Young, Variety
"The most effective moments in Taymor's gorgeous, surprisingly romantic Frida are those that evoke the visual world from which Kahlo's work was formed or the paintings themselves, often using clever animation and other special effects...Frida brilliantly captures the brightness of the light, the intensity of the colors and the omnipresence of Mexican motifs that informed Kahlo's art." —Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
"Ms. Taymor, the theater and puppet artist who brought The Lion King to Broadway and, in her filmmaking debut, turned Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus into a piece of grisly, glorious performance art, has a brilliant sense of spectacle...Frida is at its best when it forsakes earnest psychological exposition for magic realism, when, instead of trying to explain Kahlo's life, it conjures the moods and sensations that fed her art." —A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"A lush, sensuous triumph! Salma Hayek's haunting performance is destined to be remembered in this year's Oscar® nominations." —Rex Reed, New York Observer
"A masterpiece! An extraordinary and memorable film...Frida shows real brilliance in style and performance." —Chicago Tribune
"One of the year's best films! Salma Hayek is the ONLY actress who could portray one of the most fascinating women of the 21st century. She gives the performance of her career." —Jeffrey Lyons, NBC
"A fabulous pictorial movie book...Consider Frida: Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film a welcome companion piece." —Kathy Cano-Murillo, The Arizona Republic
"Newmarket Press' beautiful Frida: Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film, which charts with insight and intelligence Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek's biopic of the legendary Mexican artist, and which serves as a gloriously illustrated read-along experience, including as it does the film's screenplay and remembrances from the actors and creative team involved." —Entertainment Today
"Frida: Bringing Frida Kahlo's Life and Art to Film is more than a colorful coffee table book. The book is Frida bright and colorful and of course gutsy and shocking. Like the film it is a wonderful way to enter the life of an artist through her artwork. It is a book to return to again and again. I highly recommend this book."—Su Terry, Metapsychology
"Perhaps because it features the vibrant artwork of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Julie Taymor's Frida: Bringing Fria Kahlo's Life and Art to Film is one of the most aesthetically pleasing film companion books in years...The book admirably juxtaposes film stills and reproductions of Kahlo's paintings, making this at once a tribute to the film and the life of the great artist. " —Publisher's Weekly |
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Product Details
| Format: |
Hardcover, 160 pages |
| Publisher: |
Newmarket Press |
| Pub. Date: |
October 2002 |
| ISBN: |
1557045402 |
| Dimensions: |
8.27 × 0.39 × 10.24 inches |
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