Internationally-acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Mendoza is part of the first of a series of exhibitions lined up in the last quarter of the year to celebrate the Metropolitan Museum of
TWENTY-FOUR films from 18 European countries will be shown during the 19th edition of Cine Europa, which kicks off its 11-day run at Shangri-La Plaza on Sept. 8.
Luna Inocian, Jenny Jamora, Topper Fabregas and other friends of director Paolo Dy and his wife Cathy Azanza-Dy all pitched in to help refine and deepen the film’s text and character work
There was “discipline” during martial law, they say. The Philippine economy was at its peak during the dictator’s regime, they say. Three decades after the historic
KIDLAT Tahimik’s “Balikbayan #1: Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III” will be the closing film of this year’s Cinema Rehiyon, which will be hosted by Cebu. The film won the Caligari
OF ALL her outstanding qualities as a writer, it is Leigh Bardugo’s ability to keep you guessing that will stay the most. The bestselling fantasy author (her first name is
DIRECTOR Thomas Vinterberg adapts to the big screen Thomas Hardy’s fourth novel “Far From the Madding Crowd.” The novel is considered the British writer’s first major literary success. The film
ALVIN Yapan’s “An Kubo sa Kawayanan,” a film in Bicolano with English subtitles, brings an invigorating breath of fresh air to Philippine cinema. Michelle (Mercedes Cabral), the main character, devotes
Among high-school friends, it is common to label the most unattractive friend as The Duff, which stands for “the designated ugly, fat friend.” “The Duff,” directed by Ari Sandel, is
For a genre built on frenzied promiscuity, pornography draws a remarkably faithful crowd in the Ecuadoran capital, whose last two porn cinemas are just surviving the Internet age thanks to a trickle of steadfast patrons.
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