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BLITZ REVIEW
Birdman in Guiguinto
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 8, 2024 - 12:00am
Once upon a time in faraway Guiguinto, there was an autobiographical art exhibit told in cartoon panels, curiously titled “The Sky is the Langit” and curated by Erwin Romulo, and a launch of The Book...
Eddie Romero’s ‘Ganito’ selected for UNESCO memory of the world
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 24, 2024 - 12:00am
On the centennial of National Artist for Film Eddie Romero, the Dumaguete born director’s seminal “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?” has been selected for inclusion in the UNESCO Memory of the...
Bottle, gun, paint, film
by Juaniyo Arcellana - October 27, 2024 - 12:00am
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first acknowledged Filipino digital film, “Still lives” by Jon Red a.k.a. Juan Pula, which at the time it was released in 1999 was unaware it was ushering in...
Into the mystic
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 23, 2024 - 12:00am
Book author and anthropologist Tita Pambid Domingo laments that everything, even the once occult amulet, can be seen on the internet, and if this is the case there is no reason holding back showing her husband Reuben...
Last exit from Lantana
by Juaniyo Arcellana - June 30, 2024 - 12:00am
On the third Friday of June just days before the Feast of San Juan, Mowelfund held its first screening of the “Dokyu Wave” series at the Conrado “Dengcar” Baltazar Theater in its office off...
James Taylor in Manila redux, 30 years later
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 11, 2024 - 12:00am
Good things come to those who wait, not least to James Taylor and his fans who turned the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena on April 8 into one giant folk house and speakeasy when the artist-musician had a sequel show to...
Letter to a ruined country
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 2, 2024 - 12:00am
The more I listen to Khavn and the Kontra-Kino Orchestra’s The Woman Who Went Mad, the more it sounds like a love letter to a ruined country, hypothetically our own, what with its sparse instrumentation, vocals...
Friends still here and friends no longer with us
by Juaniyo Arcellana - March 3, 2024 - 12:00am
I know this is late, but received word of director Tikoy Aguiluz’s death on the eve of an out-of-town trip, and so was unable to attend his wake.
So long to Sky Cable
by Juaniyo Y. Arcellana - February 15, 2024 - 12:00am
News is out that Sky Cable will sign off by month’s end, making it the second major broadcast carrier and communications conglomerate to write 30 in as many months, after CNN Philippines last January. PLDT’s...
Lino Brocka, National Anarchist: Archivist’s delight
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 6, 2023 - 12:00am
Screened early this year at the Rotterdam film festival, Khavn dela Cruz’s Lino Brocka, National Anarchist had a run at the recently concluded QCinema festival, every bit a tribute to the late filmmaker who...
Let’s hear it for boygenius
by Juaniyo Arcellana - October 20, 2023 - 12:00am
There are times when you hesitate to write a review because after having done so, you’re likely to put away the reviewed piece, especially if music, as if over and done with. Not so much with the band boygenius,...
Page-turner set in turn of century Manila
by Juaniyo Arcellana - October 4, 2023 - 12:00am
Walking through Megamall on a Tuesday afternoon with an elder sibling, shortly after a death in the family, would take us to the basement nook Book Sale and a novel by British writer William Boyd going for little...
Essential truths, unspeakable grace
by Juaniyo Arcellana - September 1, 2023 - 12:00am
A scene or two always stands out from a Lav Diaz film, and in the case of Essential Truths of the Lake recently premiered in Locarno, it is the procession of religious novices reciting what sounds like a local version...
Dilang-putol: Cat got his tongue
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 8, 2023 - 12:00am
Now that we’ve reached the age of pre-censorship and the use of postmodern tools of communication, such that any stray report may or may not disintegrate into false news at the click of a mouse, consider that...
Post-pandemic music: Monochrome, Superego, The Garceaus
by Juaniyo Arcellana - June 17, 2023 - 12:00am
What has three years of pandemic wrought?
Brockas’ Manila by Night sends regards to cutie-cutie
by Juaniyo Arcellana - March 31, 2023 - 12:00am
Return of the primitive is what first comes to mind upon hearing the Brockas’ Manila by Night, the latest long-playing album of the band of filmmakers, who happen to pick up musical instruments, write songs...
Not a release: Latest from the Brockas
by Juaniyo Arcellana - January 25, 2023 - 12:00am
Filmmaker Khavn dela Cruz messaged to say that two of his latest films will have their premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival, from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, and the band Brockas of which he and other directors from the...
Revenge of the spoken word
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 30, 2022 - 12:00am
No two bands can be as different and poles apart in their approach as Jack of None and The Brockas. Both are driven by the spoken word as main inspiration for most of their compositions, which can range from frenetic...
The Passionate Strangers: Remembering Eddie Romero’s film starring Valora Noland  
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 4, 2022 - 12:00am
An old friend and high school batchmate now teaching film in South Korea, going by the alias Ynnocence, sent some months ago films personally requested for a re-viewing and re-evaluation, which included Eddie Romero’s...
Gone with the waves in Venice and San Isidro
by Juaniyo Arcellana - September 11, 2022 - 12:00am
One might say Lav Diaz’s latest film, Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon (When the Waves are Gone), was constructed around a photograph taken during the drug war, the Pieta-like cradling of a user/pusher victim by his...
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