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The Truest Independent Filipino Movie Audience
There's a notion, some may actually be guilty of it, that indie filmmakers make films to win awards and make it to foreign film festivals.Sineng Pambansa, "Filipino films for Filipinos" , conceived by...
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The Late 40's Checklist
It's an odd stage to be in. I am neither golden in my 50's but I am way past where life should begin, at 40.I assume by this time some dreams I had in college, our most ideal phase to dream, has been...
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Miss TwoFace
No, she's not a new Batman character, ( she'd play the Catwoman though, as the Dark Knight returns), but rather, a darling of my film viewing fare, Anne Hathaway.She can be an every man's All-American...
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Look! Up In The Sky!
When was the last time I ever looked at the stars in the sky? Not in the middle of a business center can I do that. The domed sky would never be completed as blocked by buildings, and yes, blurry smog...
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Pre-Departure Notes
Rooted on the ground, remembering the miles I've traveled and the highs and lows of my life, I write this as I am on the verge of my groundbreaking first.Europe has always been a dream. There's a...
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How The Sweet Berlinale Surprise Came Our Way
The night before Saturday, there was a message in our hotel inbox that we were supposed to go to the Berlinale Forum Guest Office at 1115 am the next day.So I asked Sheron, why the exact time? Both of...
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What This Woman Wants
It's a bit perplexing to go through "Brownian Movement", a Dutch film, with sparse dialogue to go with a woman's absurd escapades. It's one of the films I was able to see at the Berlinale Forum.But the...
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The World Is Going Through An Adjustment By The Bureau
Master Plan, the invisible path no human can reverse, is rearing its manifestations oh so loudly in a world clinging to unreliable normalcy.While despots fight or give in to change crusaders, and a...
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Precious Truths
*Photo: Coreen Jimenez, director of "Kano" takes a break from the Milan Film Festival and check out the Duomo's rooftop.Sadly, in this film-viewing world, the documentaries take a backseat to the...
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Destinations And Destiny
In a series of good news where the "Adjustment Bureau" finally reveals what the true plan is, it's nice to sit back and absorb the surprising and overwhelming NEXTS, while forgiving the...
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The Best Lenten Sacrifice Is Not By Abstaining from Meat
It's hard to let go when there are unclosed wounds, and unexpectedly new and fresh ones from the most unexpected people and even from those dearest to you. The dearer they are to you, the deeper the...
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Dreaming Of, And Doing The Impossible
Keep on dreaming, or should I quote Leo Burnett's famous line, "When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."So goes the story of...
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It Hurts So (Quite A Bit) Good
Much has been done about minority groups and illegal migrants in America from Mexico. But Mexico itself has its share of workers from poorer-than-Mexico countries, too. And so goes the backdrop of...
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Rissent Before the Big Dissent
It smells so Imelda Marcos’ “City of Man” to me. The blind eye of a dying regime sustaining the bourgeoisie when a socio-political powder keg is about to transform into an explosion is captured on...
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The Triumph of the Middle-Class Indies
As "The Woman in Septic Tank" delectably, wickedly and deliciously parodied the proliferation of poverty-themed festival-touring independent films, two "middle-class" themed movies finally brought...
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Browsing
In between the breaking news that the Supreme Court of the Philippines has upheld ex-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's right to travel, I learn that now I can hear Mass as if I am still in Quiapo,...
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My Annual Christmas Wish List
Here I go again, well, this year, it may be more impossible since I am miles away from majority of my friends and family.It never rang truer, the inclusion of Purefoods Corned Beef, which always make...
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What A Difference Live Theater Makes
Photo with Migs Ayesa after the show.3D won’t improve the way I look at “The Amazing Spiderman.” But live theater changed my perception of “Rock of Ages.” Good thing I saw the film first before its...
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I have missed updating my blog. It's like having a pen without a paper to write on. After attempts of remembering the email address I used for this blog, and even recovering passwords, finally it's...
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Mid-Decade Crisis (The Nothingness of 10's - Circa 2010 and Beyond)
2014, the second decade of the millennium at its midpoint. What seems to be the most exciting thing that has happened in our lives anyway? There's no romanticized revolt to speak of unlike 1986. Any...
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My Now On Its Way To The Next
(Photo shows the cast of "Changing Partners," which I co-wrote/ adapted as screenplay with the original play's author, Vincent A. De Jesus. In its very limited number of screenings during its indie...
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I WANT THIS KIND OF A HORROR MOVIE , from iWantOriginals. Kenneth Lim Dagatan’s full length movie debut, after his celebrated short film “Sanctissima,” “MA,” provokes our notions on motherhood, love...
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FAMBAM FURY. It is surprisingly, a family story, in R18 magnitude. The scope and scintillation of Whammy Alcazaren’s “NEVER TEAR US APART,” are mindblowing. It speaks in episodes. And it displays a...
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THE HOLE IN THE MIDDLE
Like a middle child, or a midlife crisis, the movie's most difficult and troublesome part to write is the middle part. For viewers, this is the point of the movie that you've come to know a lot, and...
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"FESTING" IN OCTOBER
We could rant or rave on the movies offered in Cinema One Originals Festival and QCinema Film Festival, which happened one after the other. Without a week, or even a day's intermission. But one thing...
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