The Film Theorists’ has just uploaded a video essay built around the question of which element do Japanese horror films make them effective. The answer, gathers “Frame by Frame,” is with how these films make intelligent use of sound design and engineering. It’s an agreeable diagnosis, what with the wave
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Film Police Primer: Cinemalaya 2015
Onward we keep rolling through The Film Festival Season—undoubtedly the most stressful months every Filipino cinephile goes through, chasing a spree of screenings of worthwhile films, some of which if we’re being honest we will probably end up torrenting anyway. READ MORE: Complete screening schedules of Cinemalaya 2015 Cinemalaya, one
I. Am. A. God.: Revisiting Dodo Dayao’s ‘Violator’
As first features go, Eduardo ‘Dodo‘ Dayao’s Violator (’14) is leaned more towards the introduction of a voice rather than the solidifying of a statement. I saw it the first time during its auspicious run at the Cinema One Originals Film Festival last November where it won, rightly, Best Picture; wrote a verbose,
March 2015 Screenings and Workshops at UPFI Film Institute
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
The Year in Horror: 15+ Best Films of 2014
Time has struck into the annual season of lists, where selectionis spontaneously divorced from apt and valid criterion; where unjust remarks are made; and people deeming one list fallacious, some reducing others as cheaply formatted posts of embedded film trailers. Amid (and despite) all this commotion, it has become my
6 films released this year that are inspired by John Carpenter
I still hold that his latest film The Ward (2010) is not a John Carpenter film; he is not involved in both the script-work and music, which in itself is pretty self-explanatory. I think it as an unthought-of plunge to quickie horror by a legendary director who has made terrific
Violator
For an audience as discerning as the “Dodo” Dayao—his film writings, after all, are compiled in his expansive blog titled “Piling-Piling Pelikula“—the expectations for his film are naturally high. The man, known to a large sample of readers a prolific film critic* and ardent enthusiast, operates with a sense of cutting-edge
