The Embassy of Brazil and Instituto Cervantes present the film cycle entitled “Cine brasileño”, a series of recent Brazilian films to be shown on the Saturdays of February at the Instituto Cervantes theatre.
How many people do you have to kill before it starts to take a toll on you? United States Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle racked up an official body count of 160 confirmed kills during his four tours in Iraq, establishing him as the single most lethal US sniper ever.
There is no way you can quantify the film credentials of Nora Aunor. She has won acting awards in cinema here and abroad, and the number just keeps growing.
By now you’ve heard the greeting or seen it online. “May the Fourth be with you!” cry fans of the decades-old space odyssey, “Star Wars.” Whether you got to know the original trilogy when you saw it in theaters or you were introduced to the saga by way of the prequels, you and your friends have probably greeted each other on the fourth of May every year, announcing to the whole world how much you love this epic galaxy that George Lucas created.
Korean-American filmmaker Benson Lee probably has dancing in his blood. He grew up watching films like “Flashdance” in the 1980s and had engaged in dancing in his youth.
Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy, whose novels have been adapted into film, has, for the first time, written an original script directly for the big screen.
They are the man in the casket, the woman weeping at a wake, the jeepney driver, the household help in the background, the taong bayan (townfolk), the passers-by in a crowd, the anonymous faces in a mob scene.
They started as bit players, extras with walk-on parts or cameos until they graduated into characters who have speaking lines. Patiently, they worked their way up through the studio system until they got their big break and finally saw their names on the marquee. Here are some of them:
World-class Italian furniture maker B&B Italia recently held a fantastic 15th-anniversary celebration. Abitare Internazionale, sole local distributor of B&B Italia, corroborated with renowned photographer Frank Hoefsmit and my pal Anton San Diego, editor in chief of the Philippine Tatler, natch, to mount an eye-catching photo exhibit, featuring B&B Italia’s 15 iconic pieces, paired with several namedroppables.
When we ran stories on “Give Up Tomorrow” last month, our readers had just one question: How can we watch it?
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