Just like the protagonists of his movies, since Kiko in “Kiko Boksingero” is 11 years old and Edward in the homonymous film, a teenager, Thop Nazareno seems to grow with every film, to the point this his future path is one of the most exciting things to take place in Filipino cinema at the moment.
“Edward” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 2020
“Edward” begins with a rather long single shot that introduces the chaotic circumstances of a public hospital in Manila. There seems to be only one doctor in an establishment where scores of patients, even the ones in critical situation, are spread all over the building, and not necessarily inside rooms. People yell at the doctor for attention but he tries to deal only with the serious incidents and the ones where political influence becomes a factor. The nurses are not enough, so they ask from patients’ relatives...
“Edward” is screening at Udine Far East Film Festival 2020
“Edward” begins with a rather long single shot that introduces the chaotic circumstances of a public hospital in Manila. There seems to be only one doctor in an establishment where scores of patients, even the ones in critical situation, are spread all over the building, and not necessarily inside rooms. People yell at the doctor for attention but he tries to deal only with the serious incidents and the ones where political influence becomes a factor. The nurses are not enough, so they ask from patients’ relatives...
- 7/5/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Based on the 1992 Japanese film “The Hit-and-Run Family”, “Sunshine Family” is a situational comedy that uses absurdness in order to provide laughter and few subtle social comments.
“Sunshine Family” screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Don is a Filipino white collar who works for his company’s office in S. Korea, having moved in the country with his wife, Sonya, his daughter, Shine and his son Max. The family is somewhat dysfunctional however, since no one seems to communicate with each other. After living for five years in the country, they are ready to move back. Their plans go to waste, though, when Don, runs over a girl with his car one drunken night and runs away. His actions have a deep impact on his mentality but Sonya gathers the family together and comes up with a plan to take the car involved in the accident apart. At the same time,...
“Sunshine Family” screened at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Don is a Filipino white collar who works for his company’s office in S. Korea, having moved in the country with his wife, Sonya, his daughter, Shine and his son Max. The family is somewhat dysfunctional however, since no one seems to communicate with each other. After living for five years in the country, they are ready to move back. Their plans go to waste, though, when Don, runs over a girl with his car one drunken night and runs away. His actions have a deep impact on his mentality but Sonya gathers the family together and comes up with a plan to take the car involved in the accident apart. At the same time,...
- 3/16/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
76 titles (of which 51 in competition) from 12 countries, a retrospective, a monograph, a tribute to new independent Korean cinema, 2 “strange couples”, the world-premier of a restored film and more than 100 themed events organized in the heart of Udine. This is the immense itinerary of which, from an artistic and cultural perspective, the Feff is the most important European outpost.
A bona fide “cinematic island” where cinema is not just celebrated – with 3 world premieres, 12 international premieres and 18 European premieres and 14 debut films – but also looks to the future: this year, 15 projects have been chosen for Focus Asia, the Festival’s market, and 10 for Ties That Bind, the international Asia/Europe workshop.
The journey to the Far East begins on the 26th of April with the moving Korean film “Birthday” directed by Lee Jong-un and produced by Lee Chang-dong. Based on the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, it is an anatomy of pain and experience of public and private mourning.
A bona fide “cinematic island” where cinema is not just celebrated – with 3 world premieres, 12 international premieres and 18 European premieres and 14 debut films – but also looks to the future: this year, 15 projects have been chosen for Focus Asia, the Festival’s market, and 10 for Ties That Bind, the international Asia/Europe workshop.
The journey to the Far East begins on the 26th of April with the moving Korean film “Birthday” directed by Lee Jong-un and produced by Lee Chang-dong. Based on the 2014 Sewol Ferry disaster, it is an anatomy of pain and experience of public and private mourning.
- 4/11/2019
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
Craig Keller and Uncas Blythe continue our series of film dialogues. Isiah Medina's 88:88 is having its exclusive online premiere at Mubi, playing through April 17, 2016.Craig Keller: We're going to talk about Isiah Medina's 66-minute film from 2015, 88:88. It's a challenging movie: polyphonic, polypictorial, but not confrontational, in fact pretty chilled-out; if it were featured on Top Gear the hosts might praise its speed, dynamic facility, and stability of suspension. 88:88 presents Medina himself and a group of friends or characters from university in and around the neighborhoods of Winnipeg.Now I'll refrain from synopsizing any more. I had a hard time with the film, but like any complicated work revisitations in whole and in part yield stronger comprehension; accordingly, new insights rise to the surface. Going back through it again the other day I started by watching only the first ten minutes, which provide an overture,...
- 4/5/2016
- by Craig Keller
- MUBI
Of All the Things has director Joyce Bernal reunite with Aga Muhlach and Regine Velasquez, who, once upon a time, graced her films like Dahil May Isang Ikaw (Because There's Just You, 1999) and Pangako... Ikaw Lang (Promise... Just You, 2001) as perfect lovers. Muhlach and Velasquez have considerably aged since their last pairing, lending the characters they portray in Of All the Things a certain semblance of cynicism, frustration and desperation in both love and life. In a sense, Of All the Things, without straying too far from the overused formula of local rom-coms, infuses the genre with some sort of sobriety that supposedly comes with maturity, at least in age. That is not to say that Of All the Things is a...
- 10/1/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Joyce Bernal's Kimmy Dora and the Temple of Kiyeme misses the entire point. It is just one humongous mistake that sadly betrays whatever hope the success of Kimmy Dora: Kambal sa Kiyeme (2009) created for the Philippine film industry. Perhaps the first Kimmy Dora offering was simply a tad overrated. It has everything going for it. It featured Eugene Domingo, then an underdog, an actress who has worked her way to the top as its lead. It was also the only film that had guts to take them on, armed only with faith on the untested charms of its lead and its guiltless humor In a market that only welcomed the repetitive romances and inane horrors of the country's mainstream studios.It peddled nothing more but...
- 6/26/2012
- Screen Anarchy
All it took was a solar eclipse and five-car collision atop the Magnetic Hill for the souls of five individuals --- the virginal bride-to-be (Angelica Panganiban), her histrionically litigious godmother (Eugene Domingo), her ringbearer's destitute nanny (Tuesday Vargas), her husband-to-be's amorous grandfather (Jaime Fabregas), and her gay beautician (John Lapuz) --- to switch bodies. With the bride-to-be's soul transferring to the godmother's body; the godmother's soul transferring to the nanny's body; the nanny's soul transferring to the grandfather's body; the grandfather's soul transferring to the beautician's body; and the beautician's soul transferring to the bride-to-be's body, the dream beach wedding turns into a hilarious riot, where long-dormant passions are awakened, sexual fantasies are fulfilled, economic alleviation is achieved, and a chance at love is obtained.
Let us get it out of the way. Chris Martinez's Here Comes the Bride is top-notch entertainment. Martinez was able to come up with...
Let us get it out of the way. Chris Martinez's Here Comes the Bride is top-notch entertainment. Martinez was able to come up with...
- 5/19/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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