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Post by Guest on Aug 31, 2020 12:31:54 GMT -5
Linda and her beloved young musicians are the subject of a new Documentary Short. Produced and Directed by James Keach. Scheduled to premier at The Telluride Film Festival - however due to COVID that has changed. Keep an eye out for more information. www.lindaandthemockingbirds.com/ |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Aug 31, 2020 13:06:35 GMT -5
Welcome, guest!!! Thank you so much for info and link. I signed up to get updates so others don't have to if they don't want. eddiejinnj
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Post by ausfan2 on Aug 31, 2020 19:42:55 GMT -5
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Post by ausfan2 on Aug 31, 2020 22:12:24 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 1, 2020 7:26:06 GMT -5
I really curbed my enthusiasm yesterday (had a lot on my mind) but this is really so cool and monumental I'm sure for Linda. This is exactly what we have all talked about. Linda can certainly be active in music without her singing full throated. She gets to mentor future musicians, sing a long at her pace and probably has a blast. Sounds fun!!!! eddiejinnj
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Post by PoP80 on Sept 1, 2020 9:17:44 GMT -5
Looking forward to finding out more about Linda and the "Tequila Mockingbirds."  Wonderful musical and cultural endeavor that deserves more exposure. |
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Post by Guest on Sept 4, 2020 14:00:47 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Sept 4, 2020 15:33:57 GMT -5
Welcome to the forum, guest. It is easy to become a member. Thanks so much for the link. So cool that she requested movie and they did it. Would love one of those posters. Thanks again!! eddiejinnj
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Post by musedeva on Sept 15, 2020 2:09:08 GMT -5
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Post by musedeva on Sept 15, 2020 2:09:58 GMT -5
And a WEBSITE@!!! wow
is a road movie with music — a song-soaked, foot-stomping trip straight to the heart of what it means to be Mexican, and to be American, and the complex joy of being both at the same time.
Linda is Linda Ronstadt and The Mockingbirds are Los Cenzontles ("mockingbirds" in the Nahuatl language), a band and a music academy for young people in the San Francisco Bay Area. In this documentary by award-winning director and producer James Keach, we ride with Ronstadt, musician Jackson Browne, and a busload of Cenzontles from Arizona to the little town of Banámichi in Sonora, Mexico, where Ronstadt's grandfather was born.
On the way we learn of Ronstadt's long friendship with Eugene Rodriguez, a third-generation Mexican-American and musician who founded the Cenzontles 30 years ago to reconnect working-class kids with the dignity and beauty of their ancestral music and culture. It worked so well, and the Cenzontles became musicians of such skill and heart, that they drew admirers and collaborators like Ronstadt, Browne and Los Lobos.
The film explodes with rhythm — the pounding feet of zapateado dancers, the strumming of jarana and guitar, the clacking buzz of the quijada, a donkey jawbone. And it swells with soulful voices. It's a journey of pride and self-knowledge with a solid rootsy groove. (This is not Latin-ish "Dorito music," Ronstadt says. "This is Mexican music.")
When will this film break your heart? When a young Cenzontle, Sarahi Velazquez, dedicates to Ronstadt a sorrowful song about a lonely orphan in a palm grove, a tune Ronstadt learned from her father, as Ronstadt softly sings along? When you meet the five dazzling Ortega sisters, so bursting with music that their proud dad, a carpenter, says he sometimes has to tell them to knock it off and go to sleep? When two Cenzontles singer-teachers, Fabiola Trujillo and Lucina Rodriguez, harmonize on Woody Guthrie's "Deportee," giving the old song a haunting dimension only immigrant voices can supply? Or when Rodriguez — beside the razor-wired border in Nogales — tells of crossing over as an undocumented girl of 10? Her perilous family journey inspired Browne and Rodriguez to write "The Dreamer," a song that asks: "A dónde van los sueños?" — "Where do the dreams go?"
As Linda and the Mockingbirds powerfully shows, they go to young people, who learn from their elders and add their own spirit and soul, bringing forth new flowers from ancient roots.
Synopsis courtesy of Lawrence Downes
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Post by erik on Sept 15, 2020 9:05:33 GMT -5
I really hope this film sees the inside of a cinema, because it shows us cultures and traditions that go back hundreds, maybe even a thousand years, traditions that an unfortunately large number of us Americans really don't get.
Besdies being so rich with cultures and traditions, Hispanic, American, and indigenous alike, the Sonoran Desert, which stretches roughly from Palm Springs, east through Arizona, and south all the way to Durango, Mexico, is one of the hottest regions of the world during the summer months, which Linda can certainly attest to; and it's no accident that the cultures that live there have thrived as long as they have done.
Linda and Los Centzontles will hopefully be able to change minds and attitudes when it comes to that part of the world where she was born and raised, and where her family's ancestry was birthed.
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Post by ausfan2 on Sept 17, 2020 21:34:58 GMT -5
LINDA AND THE MOCKINGBIRDSCalgary International Film Festivalciff-2020.eventive.org › filmsShowings – select to order tickets: [Available September 24, 12:00 AM - October 4, 11:59 PM, 2020] Watch now in our online Virtual Festival... Sun, Sep 27th, 2:39 PM @ Eau Claire 6
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Post by ausfan2 on Sept 22, 2020 20:17:58 GMT -5
Linda and The Mockingbirds Official trailer:
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Post by rick on Oct 19, 2020 2:44:23 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Oct 19, 2020 5:39:11 GMT -5
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 19, 2020 6:35:04 GMT -5
A lot of chirping out there for the film. It could be up for awards for a short documentary, correct? eddiejinnj
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Post by Richard W on Oct 20, 2020 9:10:05 GMT -5
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 20, 2020 11:40:35 GMT -5
yes I saw this and you beat me to posting it ...... great that its getting press over here! I have contacted PCH Films about whether this documentary will get a release over here (it says release pending in UK?) but haven't had a response as yet. The Sound Of My Voice had one showing in London (that I attended) but has not been made available digitally on streaming services or on Bluray / DVD over here. I bought the BluRay from Amazon US and even with a cracked BluRay player it won't play. Annoying  |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 20, 2020 13:57:58 GMT -5
Cracked? Made to play US BluRay? How? I like to learn new words and sayings. eddiejinnj
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Post by rick on Oct 20, 2020 14:20:22 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Oct 20, 2020 14:23:37 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 20, 2020 18:57:14 GMT -5
Linda's perfectly right that the immigration laws have to be changed. Hell, they have to be totally overhauled, in my opinion. But what also has to be drastically changed is our attitude towards Mexico and its people. Here is a nation with thousands of years of heritage and history...and pretty much for the last century, we have treated it as, at best, a mere tourist destination whose cultures we appropriate and dumb down, and at worst as what Our Mango One calls a "s***hole". This has been true, no matter which of our two political parties has been in power in Washington; and if Mexico has anything bad about it, that really has to do with the drug cartels operating there with impunity, with money that was at least partially funded through right-wing paramilitary groups supported by our own CIA. It's not hard to understand how, even with the progressive supranuclear palsy she suffers from, this has energized, galvanized, and absolutely angered Linda into this kind of political action. We, the United States, are the ones that have to change, and not the people of Mexico. More articles at these links: people.com/music/linda-ronstadt-speaks-up-mexican-heritage-immigrant-rights/www.mercurynews.com/2020/10/20/linda-ronstadt-los-cenzontles-go-home-together-in-new-movie/www.yahoo.com/entertainment/linda-ronstadt-mexican-american-background-donald-trump-hitler-175002858.html |
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 21, 2020 0:11:18 GMT -5
Cracked? Made to play US BluRay? How? I like to learn new words and sayings. eddiejinnj yes cracked  TSOMV is the only BluRay I've had issue with playing - all other USA region discs play in the cracked player ! |
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Post by rick on Oct 21, 2020 0:25:42 GMT -5
Cracked? Made to play US BluRay? How? I like to learn new words and sayings. eddiejinnj yes cracked TSOMV is the only BluRay I've had issue with playing - all other USA region discs play in the cracked player ! But not this type of "Cracked"? -- images.app.goo.gl/NtGhXxg2gSKESVC39 |
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Post by eddiejinnj on Oct 21, 2020 7:26:37 GMT -5
Funny, Rick!!!! Just keep in mind that people come to our country so if things were good there (I truly wish things were. I wouldn't want to feel I HAVE to leave my homeland), we would not have people coming here before they can do so legally. If the laws here need changing and Erik did say it has gone on for too long no matter who is in quote power then maybe an overhaul needs to happen but we need to go by laws. It really is better for the immigrant so they feel welcome. Seems common sense to me. I think it is good people like Mexico for tourism. Linda herself did that great radio commercial to come to Mexico. I know my stepmother in her youth as she would say loved going there. Tourism is a BIG industry in many areas of the United States and economies depend on it. I am sorry for not being tech savvy in this case but I still don't quite understand WHY they call them "cracked".
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Post by fabtastique on Oct 22, 2020 1:11:05 GMT -5
yes cracked TSOMV is the only BluRay I've had issue with playing - all other USA region discs play in the cracked player ! But not this type of "Cracked"? -- images.app.goo.gl/NtGhXxg2gSKESVC39ha ha .... not that type ! |
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Post by erik on Oct 22, 2020 9:22:03 GMT -5
Quote by eddiejinnj:
And it may seem selfish on my part (if so, I plead guilty [LOL]), but one of my personal reasons for wanting to visit is, how shall we say, cinematic. Many a Western film, principally between the 1950s and the early 1980s, has been shot down there, largely because its landscapes are a great stand-in for the American Southwest of the late 19th/early 20th century. Durango, which lies at the far southern terminus of Linda's beloved Sonoran Desert, was for decades a hotbed of Western film-making activity in the 1960s and early 1970s, especially a lot of the latter-day Westerns of one John Wayne. Although they are not used as much as they were during those times, primarily because the Western has all but died out as a genre in Hollywood, the Western towns built there still attract tourists, particularly Western film fans, by the thousands annually.
Beyond that, I think it behooves us to appreciate a lot more what Mexico has to offer, besides the high-end places like Acapulco, Puerto Vallarta, or the Yucatan. If we truly appreciated that country for what it and its people really and truly are, then there wouldn't be a need for whatever violence and criminality we have been programmed to think exists down there.
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Post by rick on Oct 22, 2020 14:02:58 GMT -5
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Post by stonecoldfox on Oct 22, 2020 15:03:34 GMT -5
Naturally the Fox fans are not going to agree with Linda on this issue. But their ignorance of her career is on display in the comments. A one-hit wonder?
And if you don't like a former A-lister, you are more likely to call them a has-been than a legend.
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Post by Audiophile Guest on Oct 22, 2020 15:47:51 GMT -5
How grotesque are those weirdos that comment on Fox and Breitbart News sites?. How sad that old racist men go out of their way to demean a legend, a woman and support an authoritarian administration. What a shame that anyone remains in the GOP.
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Wonderful musical and cultural endeavor that deserves more exposure.
