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Time for an honest appraisal. Let’s pause from all this jingoism, put things in their proper places, and call a...
Movies can magically transport you to a different time and place, to experience happiness and romance, to find fear or hope, or to simply have a great time. With indie films and experimental short films becoming more mainstream, some corporations have ventured into producing short films on their own to promote their products.
Those who grew up in the ’90s share the fantasy of a “Jesse-Celine” romance. In “Before Sunrise,” two strangers meet on a train and share an intense conversation while walking around a beautiful first-world city. It is a life-changing moment for both of them, so much so that one of them turns it into a book after they part ways. This book is central to the two strangers who’ve never forgotten each other in “Before Sunset,” where Jesse and Celine find each other and live happily ever after, presumably.
Expect fireworks in this year’s Cinemalaya. For one, there’s the much-anticipated indie-cinema debut of Vilma Santos via Jeffrey Jeturian’s “Ekstra,” in which the veteran performer, perhaps the most commercially and critically successful Filipino actress of all time, deglamorizes herself to play—what else?—a movie bit actor.
Hot on the heels of our Cinemalaya high comes another film festival that would send us hopping from one theater to another.
Director, writer and producer Sean Ellis (“Cashback,” “The Broken”) was on holiday in Manila when an incident caught his eye. “My first week, I witnessed two armored truck drivers having an argument on the street; it ended with one of them kicking the tire in frustration, then they got in and drove off. I was wondering what they were arguing about. It was so intense I thought they were going to shoot each other,” he recalls.
This year, the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival and Competition marks its 10th anniversary, and this only means it has a lot in store for indie-film lovers.
Your mantra for the week: “I am happy because I am God as me.”
The Cinemalaya Foundation announces the opening of the Cinemalaya Institute in June 2015. The Cinemalaya Institute will provide...
Instituto Cervantes de Manila, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain and the Aecid, presents “Great Books on the Screen,”...
