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I was playing with WordPress this morning and thought I’d repost my longer blog entries on movies into a new site. (The category page was getting too unwieldy to load anyhow.) So: three entries will be uploaded a day until the old posts run out, which will probably be a month. I won’t be editing...
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My summer class got cancelled (long story having to do with new job opportunities in combination with low enrollment), so I guess I get to watch summer movies instead.
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1. My comment boxes have died — I suspect people (or spammers) have been posting something, but I can’t read them somehow, and even some old comments aren’t showing up anymore. So I’ve turned them off, unfortunately. Anyone wanting to leave me a message or a comment can send them to me via the Meebo...
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From Manohla Dargis’s review of M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water, in the New York Times: Apparently those who live in the water now roam the earth trying to make us listen, though initially it’s rather foggy as to what precisely we are supposed to hear — the crash of the waves, the songs...
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In Ian Ganazon and Neill dela Llana’s terrific thriller, Cavite, the Filipino American filmmakers take the tired cliches of the genre and craft an exceptional film. The plot isn’t anything you haven’t seen before, from Cellular to Red Eye (the only one I’ve seen of the four) to Nick of Time to Phone Booth:...
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Courtesy of Boyong and the V-Monster (looks like Bryanboy beat me to the link again), comes the funniest thing I’ve seen all month: brand-new Pinoy internet celebrity Alyssa Alano, with her incomparable version of Sixpence None The Richer’s “Kiss Me” (or rather, “Keys Me”). And hats off to the genius who supplied the brutally...
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CAVITE A film by Ian Gamazon and Neill dela Llana opens June 16, 2006 in the Bay Area A Filipino-American suspense thriller Landmark’s Lumiere Theatre – 1572 California St., San Francisco, (415) 352-0821 Showtimes (valid 6/16-22): shows Fri-Sun at 2:30 5:00 7:30 9:45; Mon-Thu at 5:00 7:30 9:45 On Fri 6/16 discussion after the 7:30pm show moderated by Benito M....
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So here are the films I’ll be watching (or think you folks should check out) at the SF International Asian American Film Festival, given my limited time in SF (I have to be in Atlanta for a conference): Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Cafe Lumiere (2004). My friend Jack’s Mom said, “Isn’t that that Taiwanese filmmaker who made that...
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Peter Jackson’s King Kong is grand entertainment in the swashbuckling Saturday matinee B-movie style (not that I saw any of those growing up). It’s also a film that perhaps more explicitly foregrounds the colonial, with knowing nods to Conrad and the historical cinematic / anthropological apparatus. (A poster for Cooper and Schoedsack’s 1927 film...
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The photograph, taken by cell phone, shows my cousin Rico’s head, diagonally entering the frame from one side. He is his usual baby-faced, slightly chubby self, his hair tousled as always, his face serious but betraying the slightest hint of a grin. (He was always a bit of a goof anyhow; a few minutes...
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