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« Previous EntriesKontra Agos Film Festival Experience
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008I just want to share the photos when our films had its world premiere last December in Manila at Robinsons Galleria. My film premiered in the Kontra-Agos International Film Festival.Mindanao Filmmakers Unite.. weheheand here’s another one..Lastly, me! …
Cinemalaya 2008
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008It’s past 5 in the afternoon. I was bored and waiting for my class to start. I was browsing the net that time when my phone rang. I have no idea who owns the number but still, i answered the call.”Hello? Good afternoon..” I greeted. “Hi, ‘to po ba yung…
Hellboy II: The golden army Trailer
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008Sheng and I went to the cinemas last sunday. We watched Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull while waiting for the time to shoot the sunset. I was surprised to see the trailers of the upcoming movies. This is one of them. I saw the first …
Chill To The Bones
Monday, May 12th, 2008I was watching TV last night while am doing the photos for my blog. It was a horror movie, but then I asked myself “when was the last time I watched a horror movie”? Hah! It was almost a year! I remember I was with Cheng² and we were like hiding b…
ever again, all about her
Saturday, May 10th, 2008No contest, us fathers are no match to our kids’ mothers. We have no wombs, to begin with, and most of us can only endure the sloppy shape of never-ending pregnancy borne out of all that booze and sloth. No matter if our kids fancy us to be their own S…
With Mr. Auraeus Solito
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008Finally! We’ve found my long lost brother! Here he is (hehe).. Nah! Just kidding! After waiting for a couple of weeks, we’ve finally met him.. Mr. Aureus Solito. Director of the award-winning film “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” (The blo…
DoKYu part 1
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008I was excited when we started the 2nd day of the workshop. Everybody was “into it”! participated in every activity we made that day.. The faces of the participants were like full of ideas ready to burst!See….But of course.. there are times when you g…
Documentary Filmmaking - Dominic Morrissette Style!
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Even if I was still sleepy because we watched the documentary Afghan Chronicles the night before, I forced myself to get up and try to make myself awake by taking a bath. I shook Sha and My Cheng² to wake them up also. We ate a quick breakfast and wen…
MarsoKwatro
Monday, April 7th, 2008Before I forget, I’d like to share the trailer of our short film back in 2006 titled “MarsoKwatro” (Fourth of March).Its a fictional thriller-drama story inspired by the March 4, 2003 Davao airport bombing which have killed 21 people and injured more t…
Another Film Documentary workshop
Sunday, April 6th, 2008INVITATION TO A WORKSHOP CENTER FOR NEW CINEMA A new center for the study, production and promotion of cinema is here – the Center for New Cinema! With a view to improve on the historical developments achieved by motion pictures in the country an…
Film Documentary Workshop
Saturday, April 5th, 2008My good friend Teng Mangansakan II will be conducting a Film Documentary Workshop starting April 12 in Davao City. The Workshop will hold classes and lectures during the weekend of April (April 12-13, 19-20 and 26-27). Documentary projects will be prod…
Biniton
Friday, April 4th, 2008Biniton is a story depicting the process of preparation and cooking of a dish called Biniton that is particular to the community of Saniag, Ampatuan. The process of cooking, in the eyes of an old woman, brings to life the hardships they experienced ami…
Ode to the ordinary, an epic of simplicity
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008The Radiance of Satyajit Ray’s ‘The Apu Trilogy’ THREE is a mystical number, and cinephiles would concur thrice about the best in cinematic history. Francis Ford Copolla’s The Godfather series. Krzysztof Kieslowski’s poetic reverie on White, Blue, and …
film talk =)
Saturday, March 8th, 2008I love to watch foreign language films (and at the jologs level, koreanovelas and such, hehe) and my favorite are French films. There’s just something with their lilting way of speech.. Music to my ears! No matter if I can…
Qur’an a Fascist Book?
Saturday, March 8th, 2008In Netherland Dutch politician Geert Wilders has described the Koran as a “fascist book” and reaffirmed what he calls “the clear superiority of Christian culture over that of Muslims.”
Geert Wilders is a vocal critic of Islam and will release a film in March on the Koran, which is already generating widespread controversy. He stated [...]
2007: In film
Sunday, February 24th, 2008In a nutshell, the films of 2007. Or most of it. 2007 was a great year at the movies, or in my case, it was a year at the bootleg stalls. You really think you can get these films anywhere else? I found it hard to keep up writing in my film blog because…
There will be blood
Monday, February 11th, 2008There Will Be Blood, the new film from Paul Thomas Anderson which stars the accolade-reaping Daniel Day Lewis, is touted as one of the greatest cinematic achievements of 2007, or even of the last decade, as critics would like to point out.And while I h…
Heath Ledger dies (and post-Oscar nom thoughts)
Thursday, January 24th, 2008I logged on to one of my favorite sites first thing yesterday to check on the 80th Academy Award nominations. But the first post made me forgot about the usual glee and excitement upon reading the nominees. Heath Ledger died. NYTimes reported yesterday…
Brad Renfro and Heath Ledger are DEAD!
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008Last week I was stunned with the news that Brad Renfro died. The cause? Probably drug-related as he had drug problems for the past few years. The night before he died, Brad was drinking with friends, and was later…
Direct me if I’m wrong.
Monday, November 12th, 2007Participating in a film directing workshop (The Mindanao Film Directing Workshop) with the enfant terrible of the Philippine independent cinema Nick Deocampo, will probably be one of the most important highlights of my self-absorbed cinephilia. He call…
coming soon: a countdown of must-see movies
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007WITH THE FALL SEASON COMES the upsurge of big studios piping up their chances for the Oscar Awards next year. Taking the cue from the early buzz as well as the track record of its creators and sheer star wattage, here are 20 films–a forecast of conten…
Guerilla Filmmaking 5
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Guerilla Filmmaking 5Registration is 3500 php for students, 5500 php for regular participant Workshop includes story development, screenwriting, cinematography, and directing. Registration is until october 5, 2007.for inquiries, email alchemyofvisiona…
my own private filmfest
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007TO SEE IS TO CELEBRATE. Here’s the top 10 from my recent binge of DVD viewing:JULES AND JIM. About loving and living like death is a joke, one can’t experience a more effervescent film than this one-of-a-kind menage-a-trois that’s also valentine to…
when my eyes sing yes
Monday, July 23rd, 2007IF THERE’S ONE saving grace about American cities, it’s the bounty of its public libraries.Here in the Kansan city of Topeka, for instance, the amenities of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Libary (featuring the convenience of malling with its luxu…
Film Appreciation 101
Thursday, April 26th, 2007Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro’s tale of the power of imagination in the midst of fascism, opened in Manila theaters today. Most prolly it will find its way to Davao after Spidey’s opening next week (my colleague told me that the tickets for the A…
Cinema as poem
Saturday, March 31st, 2007I couldn’t even begin to formulate words to describe how immensely satisfied I am after walking out of the theatre. It’s one of those movie experience when you walk out in awe, and you carry that awe for quite a time only to relive it on your second a…
teacher, teacher.
Saturday, March 24th, 2007We have always looked up to our teachers (especially when we were kids or even in high school), especially with the law of nature bestowed upon them to become second parents, as the school is our second home. No matter how we sometimes hate them for th…
I’m such a stoopid effin moron.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007After lunch yesterday I was not myself. Actually, I didn’t even have lunch. I threw a fit and walked out of the office because I was pissed at everything. Before the incendiary mood to blaze up the already-searing hellhole I was in, I decided to belt …
week in flicks
Saturday, March 10th, 2007I’m really lazy I only managed to write single sentences. Whew!Marie Antoinette — Sophia Coppola’s ambitious and rebellious biopic about the French queen is visually arresting but got me in lost in translation.Venus — Peter O’Toole’s career-capping p…
Death is the road to awe
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007I went to see The Fountain this afternoon. (Yup, I usually see movies alone). The story was confusing at first (I got inside the theater halfway through the movie). I almost regretted not choosing Curse of the Golden Flower or Ghost Rider instead. But …
seemingly similar
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007I realized, after a predictable weekend of watching, the films are quite strikingly similar. They’re all about a person, who’s clearly the protagonist, and all of them are characters of a book. It gets weirder, because the first two is both an adap…
read and watch this.
Friday, March 2nd, 2007David Denby, The New Yorker film critic, sheds light on current trend in filmmaking. He refers to it as ‘The New Disorder’. This emerging type of film narrative distorts time and chronology and (for me) actually makes fun out of the unsuspecting au…
Oscar final thoughts
Monday, February 26th, 2007This is late. I wrote this Sunday evening and left the USB on the way to the office realizing the show was just minutes away. I thought it was a bad omen, having left it. But then, let’s see.Tomorrow’s the big day for the best of 2006 cinema and I ha…
blazing big
Sunday, February 25th, 2007IN A LITTLE WHILE the pageantry of this year’s Oscars Awards will be history. But before the drum roll starts for the winners, I’m sticking my neck out for my preference (up yours, Roger Ebert!) from the Best Picture contenders.True, Alejandro Gonzále…
the last king
Monday, February 19th, 2007I watched The Last King of Scotland last Friday night, a film that I have incessantly looked for during my trips to the pirated DVD havens. One of the screenwriters is Peter Morgan, the one who helmed the screenplay for The Queen. I wondered then whose…
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