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Well I do for one. I'm interested to know why someone who specifically asks for his work to be displayed here, is at the same time unwilling to participate?
He never said he was "unwilling to participate". As a journalist I'm sensitive to such leading statements. I'm a member, and rarely participate. Does that mean I'm also "unwilling"?
I think it's a fine gesture to share his work without asking anything in return.
I went 4,5 times at your house in san mateo,good ambience. and i'd like your manzanero,good guitar.
Sorry I can't place who you are, but glad you enjoyed the get-togethers. We still meet every Tuesday year-round, anyone here headed for Jerez drop me a message so I can confirm the time and place.
Before anyone sticks their foot in it, just a reminder that the siguiriya of Manuel Molina so frequently used to close out a set of siguiriya cantes, has nothing whatsoever to do with this Manuel Molina.
No, it's his wife, the lady in the video. I remember Manolita de María used to call his wife the Spanish equivalent of "fatso", or sometimes just "whale".
Tao is actually smart for not getting mixed up here. He would only have to answer a million weird questions and someone would eventually put him on the defensive.
I remember seeing his first film about flamenco when it was still fresh off the edit program, privately screened at The Albatross bar in Berkeley. It was fantastic. There was Paco Valdepenas and several other folks who it turns out made their last film appearances in that movie. I hope he makes films for a very, very longtime to come.
Tao Ruspoli has asked me to supply the link to his brand-new 22-minute documentary about Manuel Molina
Zata, thanks for posting this. One question: This looks like it's from the same body of material out of which Tao made the clips of Molina for "Being in the World." Do you know if Tao is planning to make more documentary segments from that material, whether related to flamenco or otherwise?
Flamenco is a small world, indeed. I met Tao (and his starlet girlfriend at the time) in my sole visit to Spain 10 years ago. Apparently he had taken the same workshop at the Christina Heeren fundacion previously. It's cool that he's still into flamenco documentaries after all this time!
I wonder where's that bar that we see Manuel Molina in Tao videos ? what is it called? any info on it?
There are different bars...I recognize the Mantoncillo in Triana and the bar in Jerez that's right next to the Villamarta theater in the same plaza. But there's another bar I don't recognize, and some of the filming was done in Manuel's house.