Environmental films, Cinema One Originals 2014, women in Philippine Cinema, digitally restored classics, Kidlat Tahimik’s new offering, workshops on photography, scriptwriting, and film criticism are abound this March 2015 at the Film Center of the UP Film Institute in UP Diliman. For admission information, call 9262722; 9263640. Luntiang Tabing Environmental
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The Virtue of Naivety: the romantic dramedies of Antoinette Jadaone
Antoinette Jadaone is on the crusade of deciphering love—the great mystery she synonymizes to “katangahan” or naivety, so indulgently she chews in and spits out, and with which she ultimately wins the collective heart of the peoples. When she appears the vindicator of this laughable anomaly, she comes out a noble
English Only, Please
English Only, Please is a romantic-comedy film rooted on a typical premise but fashioned differently yet relevant in our age: A meets B, falls in love, and lives happily ever after. This is the dreamy innocent romance. A meets B, falls in love, and wham! Deus ex machina. Two possible
What’s Next: 15 Trends in Cinema
As 2015 seeps in to our lives, here are 15 trends inferred from happenings within festivals, on mainstream sensibilities, and to the vast wide world of the internet from the past year. Some of these trends have been building up through the years while others are things that come and
Watch: Official trailer for Dan Villegas’s ‘English Only, Please’ debuts online
The three consecutive films released this year under the direction of Antoinette Jadaone—Beauty in a Bottle, Relaks, it’s Just Pag-Ibig and That Thing Called Tadhana—are all triumphs. They are works that punctuate on their genres (comedy and romance), while refusing insistent conventions. They are products of a refinement that is
