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2011 would be a fun year with Zombadings. Favorite scene 0:36.

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PINA – Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost from neueroadmovies on Vimeo.
“Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost.”

-Pina Bausch

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France’s Cahiers du Cinema has picked its ten best list of 2010. The films in the honor roll are the following:

1. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2. Werner Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
3. J…

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Production stills from Luc Besson’s The Lady have been released. Michelle Yeoh stars as Aung San Suu Kyi. The film on the pro-democracy Burmese leader is expected to be out in 2011.

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It’s almost the end of the year. It’s time critics, movie reporters and fans will churn out their traditional best films lists. Two lists from The Telegraph. My personal favorites are in block letters.

Sukhdev Sandhu lists his ten best independent fil…

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The New Yorker’s Richard Brody has listed the 25 Best Films of 2010. His list includes:

1. Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island
2. David Fincher’s The Social Network
3. Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere
4. Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg
5. Darren Aronofsky’s Black…

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The 51st edition of the International Thessaloniki Film Festival is open. Limbunan is part of the Independence Days Section of the Festival, with screenings on December 6, 3:15pm and December 7, 7pm at the John Cassavetes Theater.

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I shall never forget Wiesbaden.

There I met cult director Ulli Lommel, the German actor and director best known for his horror films (The Boogeyman, Diary of A Cannibal, Black Dahlia). We had a brief chat details of which I barely recall. I was heavi…

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The 12th edition of the Cinemanila International Film Festival will be the first of four festivals that my film Limbunan will be screening in this December.

Since the festival is happening in my home turf, I have decided to devote my time watching al…

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I had been duped. Big time.

I had my film Limbunan converted to a Digital Cinema Package (DCP) format last August in DCinema Inc, a studio that handles post-production stuff among other things in Manila.  DCP is one of the screening requirements …

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I arrived in Wiesbaden with the intelligence of a cretin. I could hardly comprehend the most basic questions. “How long will you be staying in Germany?” The passport control officer interrogated me in Schipol Airport in Amsterdam.

“For a film festival…

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Limbunan was finally screened in the city of my birth last Thursday. It was an important and critical screening of the film. Born there in the late 1970s, and having left the city in the mid 1990s, it was sort of a homecoming for me. A prodigal son ret…

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Empire will reveal the first look at The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, the film adaptation of the enormously popular books by Hergé in performance-captured, 3D form. The exclusive and specially-Weta-created cover is a riff on the i…

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European audiences have embraced Limbunan since its international premiere in Venice last September. Now the film has been invited to the Wiesbaden exground Film Festival which will take place from November 12 to 21, 2010.
In der Reihe „News fro…

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In a recent edition of Variety, Joe Weissberg wrote a review of Limbunan:

Set in 1989 when Muslim rebel forces were easing resistance in expectation of government concessions, the [film] tries to position the political situation as an ever…

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I was searching an online database of Filipino actors to my cast my next film when I stumbled upon ‘Judiel Nieva’ on the list. Isn’t that the boy from La Union who claimed to have seen an apparition of the Virgin way back in the late 1980s? So I Google…

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Venizia 67 is officially on.

At the Palazzo del Cinema, the red carpet is spread out as gigantic golden winged lions stand guard in all corners of the Festival venue.

Flags flutter in the wind, representing all countries that have films screening in…

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At three o’clock in the morning,  moping from the big defeat at the Cinemalaya Awards Night only a few hours earlier, I was browsing my Facebook and Twitter, reading comments and congratulatory notes (well, the latter was not intended for me obvio…

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What could be a sweeter vindication!

My film Limbunan has been invited as the closing film in the International Critics’ Week of the Venice International Film Festival to be held from September 1 to 11, 2010.

No Filipino film has ever been feature…

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It has been nine months since the journey started.

I remember very vividly the first time I entered the Competition Office in Horseshoe for the selection interview in November. I remember the agitation, the anxiety of all the twenty semi-finalists of …

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All roads lead to the Cultural Center of the Philippines for the much awaited sixth edition of the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. Cineastes from Metro Manila and the regions will converge once again in this venue, and so will film programmers fr…

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