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...
Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)
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*Burning down the house*
Been years since I saw Akira Kurosawa's *Ran* (1985) and decades since I
saw it projected (an unimpressive 16 mm print in an im...
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...
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...
GRANDLY MELODRAMATIC
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There was a time when most people didn’t know men sold sex and didn’t
want to know. Now the cruising underworld is the stuff of movies and
fashion ...
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...
Destroy All Neighbors | Blu-ray Review
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Destroy All Neighbors delivers chaotic, genre-throwback fun with standout
makeup FX, energetic performances, and a robust Blu-ray feature set.
Destroy All ...
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...
South Korean Film Awards & the Oscar Race
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by Nathaniel R
*THE UGLY... one of 19 films competing to become the Oscar submission*
Since we've just starting hearing about Oscar submission decisions ...
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...
Hell On Casco Bay
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Five years since I updated this blog in any way (that festival blogroll to
the right freezes the COVID-19 cancellations in amber) and getting close to
si...
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...
MOST FAVORITE FILM WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID
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เพิ่งเห็นว่าหนังเรื่อง COMMON PEAR (2025, Gregor Bozic, Slovenia, 15min,
A+30) ที่เพิ่งมาฉายที่หอภาพยนตร์ ศาลายา มีให้ดูออนไลน์ฟรีด้วย
โดยดูได้ถึงวันท...
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...
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...
RIP, David Lynch
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This is a tough one. With David Lynch's death comes the passing of a
cinematic titan, a controversial artist with his own unique vision of the
world and...
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...
FANTASIA 29 (2025)—STUNTMAN: REVIEW
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Skillfully pitched between sentiment and action, *Stuntman (2024)*—the
debut feature from Herbert Leung Koon-Shun and Albert Leung
Koon-Yiu—screened at t...
Deep sea contemplative webcast (Schmidt Ocean)
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In Argentina, since July 2025 and until August the 10th, Schmidt Ocean is
casting live its deep sea exploration of the underwater canyon of Mar del
Plata,...
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...