My Life in Argentina and Beyond - film

Fred and Ginger

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:56:17 +0200

Monday, April 20, 2009: I have started rewatching the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers films from the 1930s. My favorites are The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat and Shall We Dance. The dancing is, of course, always outstanding, but I am also drawn to the onscreen relationship between Ginger and Fred. It was free and easy, not complicated at all. The sets are out of this world because of their Art Deco elegance. At this so problematic part of my life, the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movies help me cope with what may lie ahead for me. The films help me escape (much like it must have helped people during the Depression) into a world where money is not a great big issue and being alone just doesn't exist.

All That Heaven Allows

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:50:53 +0100

I watched a movie from 1955 called All That Heaven Allows with Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. In that movie, Jane Wyman’s character, a widow living in a small town, nearly loses the man she loves because she allows gossipy neighbors and her grown up children to tell her what to do. Luckily, she finds out in the nick of time that her sacrifice had been pointless. In my case, I discovered that I had made a mistake in giving him up when it was too late

Left

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:35:55 +0200

Wednesday, October 3, 2007: Looks like F.F. Coppola has left Argentina. The robbery the other day made him very sad. And the thieves, intelligent little creatures, are auctioning off the script of Tetro on the Internet.

Correction

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:45:27 +0200

Friday, September 28, 2007: The Coppola house address is Gorriti 4746, not Gorriti 4776.

Welcome Back, Mr. Coppola!

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:30:39 +0200

Thursday, September 27, 2007: Last night, at around 10:45, 3 kids broke into Francis Ford Coppola´s Palermo house at Gorriti 4776. There were 3 employees inside, one American and 2 Rumanians. The thieves got away with money, jewels, and 5 notebook computers. In these computers Mr. Coppola had the original script and the back up copy of Tetro, the new movie he´ll be making here with Matt Dillon and Javier Badem.
The way the crime rate has gone up here, it was only a question of time before something like this happened. The employees say that the youngest thief must have been around 18, the oldest in his 20s.

Coppola in BA

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 18:50:00 +0200

Sunday, September 9, 2007: Last night I was able to go to the always trendy and hip barrio of Palermo. On the 4700 block of Calle Gorriti, cross street Malabia, I saw the house that F.Ford Coppola has bought. It´s across the street from an ice cream parlor. Because the weather was warm (over 25 Centigrade) people were seated at sidewalk tables chatting and eating lots of ice cream. Gorriti has some nice houses, some in the traditional old fashioned style, and one or two modern brick mansions. When I came back home, I found out that Coppola had returned to BA yesterday to start preparations for the movie he´ll be making in February.

Letter to Francis Ford Coppola

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:33:06 +0200

Eugenia Maria Renskoff
Website: www.differentflags.com

August 10, 2007

Francis F. Coppola
Zoetrope Productions
USA

Dear Mr. Coppola,

I have admired you for many years. I was very young when The Godfather came out in San Francisco and it instantly became one of my favorite movies. I saw The Godfather II and Godfather III as well as some of your other movies. Everything about them is superb.
Now I am temporarily living in Buenos Aires, where I understand you will have a production company called Zoetrope Argentina. I also read in the paper that you will be making a movie here with Matt Dillon, Javier Badem and a local actress.

A few years ago I wrote a novel called Different Flags. The story takes place in Argentina, in a fictional city called San Vicente. Ani, the protagonist, is a young woman who has traveled from San Francisco to Argentina in order to take care of her widowed aunt. Ani has spent most of her life in the U.S. and it is hard at first to get used to her native country again. While she is doing this, she falls in love with a young Catholic priest. This is when Ani starts to wonder where she really belongs. Her life back in California was not the kind of life she would have wanted and the trip to Argentina has given Ani a chance to be exposed to a different culture and to know love for the first time in her adult life.
I think the main theme of the novel is a quest for identity. There is a subplot having to do with the eviction of Ani´s aunt. In a way, this mirrors my protagonist dilemma. She has led a sheltered life back in San Francisco and now she is faced with real life problems.
Ani´s love for the priest is also important because he brings out the woman in her. In spite of the fact that he is supposed to be Forbidden, she experiences all the feelings that a woman in love feels. Padre Luis and her Aunt Esther become, in Ani´s mind and heart, the new family she wants to have.
I would like for you to read my novel as I think it would make a good character-driven movie. Please feel free to visit my website at www.differentflags.com.
Here in Argentina I am an English teacher. I also do translations.
I hope to hear from you.

Sincerely,

Eugenia Maria Renskoff

Bloom

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:50:08 +0100

Saturday, February 4, 2007: Film hearthrob Orlando Bloom is visiting Buenos Aires without his lady love, Oscar nominee for Best Actress Penelope Cruz. He has been spotted in the touristy (and very interesting) neighborhoods of La Boca and San Telmo. Will he discover trendy (and so expensive) Puerto Madero next?

The Godfather

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:47:56 +0200

Monday, July 17, 2006: Francis Ford Coppola, the director of among other hits, The Godfather, has fallen in love with Argentina. He has bought a large house in the very trendy barrio of Palermo and plans to return to Buenos Aires next month. Coppola has decided to give up making commercial movies for a while and is about to start a small, intimate story here in the city.

Da Vinci Code

noreply@blogspirit.com (Eugenia) — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:47:37 +0200

Wednesday, May 17, 2006: The D Vinci Code is openingtomorrow and they are all excited. Big controversy about Jesus. Did he have a woman during those unaccounted for years? Will we ever know? But wasn´t Jesus a human being to begin with? What if he did have a woman--or two?