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In the tradition of last year’s Pinoy Blonde, Unitel’s new release, Nasaan si Francis?, hits us with an overt nod to the Peque Gallaga School of Filmmaking. This comes as no surprise given the provenance of first-time full length feature film director Gabby Fernandez. Gabby has worked with Peque over several of the meister’s films, and the influence shows. Shot primarily in Bacolod, Nasaan shares that shaggy-dog quality that Pinoy Blonde irrepressibly possessed.
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[Title] => A Filipino’s field of dreams
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Ostensibly a buddy/petty crime caper film leavened with telling humor and pathos, I was struck at how the new indie digital film Big Time was coming to me as a very Filipino, socially realistic Field of Dreams. Without fail, every character in the film was driven by his or her own dream, his interpretation of hitting the Big Time.
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[Title] => Blonde on the run
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The stereotypical Filipino film tends to deal with one too many clichéd plots simultaneously, while also being a distasteful hodgepodge of too many genres. In such movies, what usually happens is that the audience gets confused and loses focus on what is actually going on in the film. To illustrate, imagine the typical rags-to-riches Cinderella story but with a bit of action, a bit of slapstick comedy, and some mild sexual content; just a bit of cleavage here and there to rake in ticket sales.
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[AuthorName] => STILL TALKING By Enrico Miguel T. Subido
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[Title] => Gallaga’s blonde on blonde
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When in doubt of the country’s leadership, watch a movie. Better still, watch a local movie that departs from the usual mainstream formulas. And just as the country was in political tumult making bedfellows stranger than strange, the Cinemalaya Independent film festival ran for a week at the CCP during which time Peque Gallaga’s first movie in six years, Pinoy Blonde (dubbed as not your typical Pinoy film) opened in commercial theaters.
There was delicious irony in his eyes as Unitel’s head honcho Tony Gloria related how teenagers and twenty-somethings would rush up to him, and gush how finally there was a film out there that was really tailor-made for them. Along with director Peque Gallaga, Tony has hit the 60-year-old mark, and Lore Reyes, who line produced and co-wrote Pinoy Blonde with Peque, is no spring chicken either.
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[Title] => Ruffa and family doing well after tragedy
[Summary] => Curtain-raisers:
Everyone is saying that the local movie industry is dying. Not anymore. It is going to be saved by digital films.
By Philip Cu-Unjieng | March 1, 2006 - 12:00am
By Philip Cu-Unjieng | January 23, 2006 - 12:00am
By STILL TALKING By Enrico Miguel T. Subido | July 22, 2005 - 12:00am
By Juaniyo Arcellana | July 18, 2005 - 12:00am
By Philip Cu-Unjieng | July 15, 2005 - 12:00am
By Ricky Lo | July 6, 2005 - 12:00am
By Butch Francisco | July 5, 2005 - 12:00am