2015 in TV
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Bear with me on this. I love lists, and I used to do it A LOT. But the last
3 years or so, I got really really lazy with anything that has to do with
blogg...
Note 4: Nonface, Interlude, Lav Diaz and Time
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*The face withheld - a secret.*
*1. *
*The Nonface in Class Picture1*
*[This article was published in Kino Punch (Issue 3), U.P. Cinema's Film
Critiqu...
SEARCH FOR WENG WENG: Week #2 update!
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Dear friends and colleagues,
As you may have heard, I'm currently running a crowdfunding campaign to
finish my THE SEARCH FOR WENG WENG documentary -
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Dead Kids (2019).
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Dead Kids – Mikhael Red Mikhail Red’s Dead Kids (2019) is much like Lav
Diaz’s homage to juvenile exuberance and criminal mischief, Burger Boys
(1995), a c...
BUKOD KANG PINAGPALA (Sheron Dayoc, 2015)
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He awakens her, a religious devotee, from a vegetative sleep, a
long-standing coma. He heals her of paralysis, festering bed sores and all,
and then so...
Dear Film Development Council of the Philippines
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You have the mandate to start the National Film Archive. I have heard that
your first priority project in relation to archiving is the digitization of
some...
The Last Post Ever About "Indie"
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For the past decade, the so-called Independent scene has been mostly
dependent to financing bodies run by almost the same people who almost
serve the sam...
Breaking It to You Gently
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Dear friends, It’s been a while. You have probably forgotten about this
blog. We have all moved on. We have carried on with the more important
aspects of o...
Done with Cinemalaya X
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Break muna ako sa latest CinemalayaX scandal. This year has a superb
lineup, though I was only able to watch 11 films (the number does not
include all th...
DEVILS YOU KNOW
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*Panahon Ng Halimaw*
*Directed and Written by Lav Diaz*
My Twitter feed regularly explodes with governmental disgruntlement.
Sometimes I weigh in, too...
Elevator
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Score: 3.55 5 Ratings Genre: Drama, Romance Synopsis: Trapped inside the
elevator of a hotel casino complex, a lowly elevator boy falls in love with
his in...
Favorite Foreign Films of 2014
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*Special Mention:*
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, dir. Isao Takahata
20) The One I Love, dir. Charlie McDowell
19) Labor Day, dir. Jason Reitman
1...
HOOK AND FLAW
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The concept of *Boy Kaldag* (VMX, BLVK Films, Pelikula Indiopendent,
2024) is undeniably clever. Size is both the film's hook and flaw, an
amiable ...
Ha Ha Ha (South Korea, 2010)
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Because last Saturday's drink up was strange. "Drinking down memory lane,"
a drunken text message, slurred across time (the flooding of memory) and
space ...
Ilang Tala sa mga Paborito Kong Short Film sa 2015
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Paborito kong excuse ang “maling audience” kapag nanonood ako ng mga
experimental film sa Pinas. Gusto ko ang mga pelikulang pinapag-isip ako
pero hesit...
The Two Degrees of Weng Weng
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*SIX DEGREES OF KEVIN BACON? PFFFFFT! WELCOME TO THE TWO DEGREES OF WENG
WENG*
Everyone - and I mean EVERYone - in the Philippine film industry is just
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Not Another Manileño-Kids-Trooping-to-a-Party Video
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Turn It Well Artist: Up Dharma Down Director: Caloy Soliongco Cast: Paul
Diaz, Dee Jae Paeste, Gino Jose, Martin Antunez, Haizel Fernando 2012 I
love Up Dh...
Snowpiercer (2013)
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Ever wonder what it's like having the entire human race jammed in one
cramp, perpetually-running locomotive? Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho shows
how cra...
Crowdfunding 201: Best Friends Forever
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*A long time ago, I wrote a column for Turnstyle News (a project of
yr.media) called "Crowdfunding 201" that aimed to dig deeper into what did
and did not ...
re:solve / 决议案 Trailer
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There's a release date! And a new trailer to accompany the one month wait
to its debut. Touted as Singapore's first police crime thriller,
anticipation and...
Piece by Piece | Blu-ray Review
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Piece by Piece creatively redefines the rockumentary genre with inventive
LEGO animation; though lacking 4K, its 1080p Blu-ray presentation is
impressive. ...
The Carpetbaggers
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Edward Dmytryk - 1964 KL Studio Classics BD Region A There is an inspired
moment in The Carpetbaggers where the camera rests on the entry to a
bathroom in ...
Artist Spotlight: Gio Gio Art
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I found this terrific illustration of San the Princess Mononoke at the
Reddit Ghibli thread. It was created by a person named "Gio Gio Art," who
also h...
"...all art is sex!"
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Recently I watched *Savage Messiah*, which I'd never seen, and it got some
things ticking along in my head alongside some other things that relate to
the F...
Weekend Awards Wrap-Up: Opening Pandora's Box
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by Cláudio Alves
*The FFI's treatment of ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT will go down as THE awards
season fumble. *
The awards season continues to heat up, tho...
Hidden Histories: The Story of Women Film Editors
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*I've written an essay for Criterion on women film editors. It was inspired
by Su Friedrich's website, Edited By, a wonderful, invaluable labor of love
d...
SFFILM 62 Day 13: The Labyrinth
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*The 62st San Francisco International Film Festival is almost over; last
night was the official "closing night" but repeat screenings continue today
and Tu...
25 of the 21st century
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This blog is basically dead. I hadn't intended to retire it but life moves
on and Blogger feels like a pretty outdated platform these days. I
certai...
Sydney Film Festival 2014
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*SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2014*
As the programmer of the Sydney Film Festival Hub, I live in Town Hall
during the Festival, and don't get to see many films. Bu...
Been a Long Time
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Five years later, a new post! Alas, it's just a quick note to say that,
while I no longer have time to maintain or update this blog, I'll be
keeping it onl...
THE PROTAGONIST IN BRESSON’S FILM
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THE PROTAGONIST IN BRESSON’S FILM (2023, Naruepong Boonkert, 30.49min,
A+30)
1.เราเคยคุยกับเพื่อน cinephile บางคนในช่วงต้นปี 2023 ว่า พอเราเห็นคุณ We...
favorite films
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Notes.
Bumped to the top of my blog for easy access.
20 films. Chronological. 1 film per director. I have given my top 5 special
pictures. I do plan to expa...
A memorial slide show for David
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After David’s memorial service in May (a video recording of which is
permanently on Vimeo with no password necessary), some people on my
Facebook page aske...
Inspector Bellamy
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Claude Chabrol's final film, Inspector Bellamy, begins with a dedication
and ends with a quote, and in between is one of the French master's most
confoundi...
The Snarkout Boys and the Avocado of Death
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From a very early age my parents instilled in me a love of movies. Some of
my earliest memories are of seeing an animated Raggedy Ann and Andy movie
i...
April 2015 Film Preview
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Summer blockbuster season is just around the corner, but there's no need to
wait until then to see a great movie. April brings us a wide variety of
women-c...
National Silent Movie Day: Manhandled (1924)
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Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, is National Silent Movie Day. New York City's
beloved Film Forum is celebrating with a screening of Allan Dwan's 1924
silent...
SEAN BAKER'S (AND MIKEY MADISON'S) ANORA
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Way back in May it was that Patty, Emma and I drove to the SEE Film
Multiplex in Bremerton to take in *I Saw the TV Glow*, and while there I
took a ...
Summer 2023 Blu-ray/4K Ultra Consumer Guide
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Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display,
Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. Angel Face (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Of all the
amour ...
345-Word Reviews: Train to Busan
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I’m an avowed Walking Dead quitter, numbed by repetitive gore, missing the
satirical bite and morbid world-building of the Romero “Dead” cycle. I’m
officia...
The Searcher: On the Cinema of Robert Kramer
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*The Edge *(Robert Kramer, 1968).
“My films are, in the beginning, a sort of large area, like a geography,”
Robert Kramer told critic Bernard Eisenschitz i...
Maya Miriga (1984)
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Forty years after its original premiere, the Odia film Maya Miriga (1984),
a touchstone of the Parallel Cinema movement, will be presented in a
restored ve...
I gave FilmDoo a whirl
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Finally, we can forget about DVDs. Streaming video is the future for
independent films from Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries, with
new onlin...