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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.
Hot on the heels of our Cinemalaya high comes another film festival that would send us hopping from one theater to another.
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.
The Cinemalaya Foundation announces the opening of the Cinemalaya Institute in June 2015. The Cinemalaya Institute will provide...
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.
GOD speaks through the movies, of this I’m now sure.
I truly enjoy the Swatch parties that Swatch Philippines grand dame Virgie Ramos throws—whether it’s the birthday of one of the Swatch endorsers or the launch of a new collection.
Cinematheque Centre Manila is rescreening Lav Diaz’s “Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis” this month.
Mercedes Cabral’s acting resumé includes a long roster of independently-produced films, starting with Brillante “Dante” Mendoza’s “Serbis” in 2008. ...
These days, the talk of the town are two phenomena: “Aldub,” the continuing love story on noontime TV; and “Heneral Luna,” a historical film that has achieved the near-impossible feat of sold-out screenings in most theaters for a month now since it opened.
