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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #60 on: Jun 11, 2005 at 08:25 AM »
That's a very interesting list, diabolik. Care to give us the years and directors of those films?

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #61 on: Jun 11, 2005 at 02:02 PM »
gorio and tekla
asiong salonga
beatnik
naguumpuganf bato
pitong gatang
kanto girl
2 kalbaryo ni dr.mendez
markado
3 panata
pagdating ng takipsilim
3 magdalena

these are mostly films from the 50's and early 60's...
as for the directors you have to me some time to check back...
iwas not aware of the prod. crew when i was watching them that time

asiong salonga as you probably know starred
joseph estrada
paquito diaz as turong pajo
vic diaz is totoy golem
3 of the most colorful underworld cjharacters in tundo 1950
beatnik is dolphy/panchito supported by wing duo

naguumpugang bato - joseph/zaldy as brothers
with robert campos, van deleon, anita linda

pitong gatang
fpj/zaldy as brothers this time

kanto girl is lolita rodriquez

3 kalbaryo ni dr. mendez -  luis gonzales stars

markado - fpj with the music provided by fred panopio just like pitong gatang

more to follow....

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #62 on: Jun 11, 2005 at 03:09 PM »
Thanks for your efforts, and eagerly awaiting the rest. Did you by any chance see these films on their original run, or on tape somewhere?

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #63 on: Jun 11, 2005 at 03:56 PM »
I only remember vividly GORIO and TEKLA among the bunch of films listed by diabolik.

It stars the late Chichay during her heyday and her partner unfortunately became also her husband. One of the hilarious scenes in that movie goes like this:

CHICHAY- "nag-aaply ho ako ng trabaho."
MANAGER- "marunong kang magsulat?"
CHICHAY- "hindi ho."
MANAGER- "marunong ka sumagot ng telepono?"
CHICHAY- "hindi rin ho."
MANAGER- "marunong ka mag-Ingles?"
CHICHAY- "lalo ho hindi!"
MANAGER- "tanggap ka na!"

 :D :D :D

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #64 on: Jun 11, 2005 at 05:41 PM »
I luckily chanced on Beatnik on TV a few months ago. The scene where the "beatniks" emerged from the plane and then Dolphy starts his beat poetry song-and-dance is just too weird for words. It's the beatnik movement distilled through the Filipino sensibilities.

Oh, and I also saw Pitong Gatang on TV too. FPJ as a teen idol was quite refreshing since he hasn't really established any of his "trademarks" yet. I loved the banter between his character and his father -- it was a nice glimpse into family dynamics during that time.

I'd love to get copies of these films. Would you happen to have a copy, Diabolik?

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #65 on: Jun 11, 2005 at 06:49 PM »
Would you happen to have a copy, Diabolik?

I was trying to work my way around to asking that!
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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #66 on: Jun 12, 2005 at 12:21 AM »
my uncle have them in his library...
i watch  movies with him whenever we have time...

he collects them...
i collect film memorabilia...

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #67 on: Jun 12, 2005 at 09:02 AM »
So you're twenty to thirty years old? Just curious.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #68 on: Jun 12, 2005 at 11:43 AM »
I vaguely remember Beatniks too. And is that Pagdating ng Takipsilim the horror anthology?

Hey there, Keating! Sorry nahuli yung listahan. Hirap punuin ng sampu. Hopefully by 2006, madagdagan ko na yan. Enough to make a Top 30 at least.;D

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #69 on: Jun 12, 2005 at 11:49 AM »
Hi there X. Its ok man....your lists will be a great help to me. Too bad you were not around when we watched Ebolusyon at UP Film Institute last time with indie.

Maybe Ebolusyon will be on your lists......... :)

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #70 on: Jun 12, 2005 at 05:03 PM »
beatniks is the philippine version of the hippie culture...
the person who practices this live a bohemian
lifestyle, caring only about music, the barkada zoning out
on drugs and liquor...but these were downplayed in the
movie because its a musical comedy film...

pagdating ng takipsilim is a melodramatic love story
starring the gloria/luis tandem...

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #71 on: Jun 12, 2005 at 06:13 PM »
I was trying to work my way around to asking that!

me too.......diabolik if you don't mind.....do you have a copy of Celso Ad Castillo's PATAYIN MO SA SINDAK SI BARBARA?

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #72 on: Jun 13, 2005 at 01:32 AM »
i dont think we have that film...
our collection focuses on the early filipino films from the 60's
down to the 1800...sori...

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #73 on: Jun 13, 2005 at 08:48 AM »
i dont think we have that film...
our collection focuses on the early filipino films from the 60's
down to the 1800...sori...

Okay...let me get this straight...you got prints from before 1939? Prints and not VHS tapes? You plan to contact SOFIA about them?

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #74 on: Jun 13, 2005 at 01:18 PM »
i dont think we have that film...
our collection focuses on the early filipino films from the 60's
down to the 1800...sori...

Your uncle might have some goldmine out there....I mean those masterpieces that I haven't watch in my years of existence on Earth.....man.......those are really treasures to find!
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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #75 on: Jun 30, 2005 at 01:27 PM »
Diabolik, er, do you happen to have a copy of Daigdig ng mga Api? I won't believe it of you do.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #76 on: Jul 01, 2005 at 09:03 AM »
wrong post
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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #77 on: Jul 17, 2005 at 09:29 PM »
After 48 years, my friend finally returned Joel David's book- Fields of Vision.  ;D

Here are some of our filmmakers top choices:

ISHMAEL BERNAL

1. SISA
2. ANAK DALITA
3. KUNDIMAN NG LAHI
4. SAWA SA LUMANG SIMBORYO
5. TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG
6. BOATMAN
7. BURLESK QUEEN
8. MORAL
9. KISAPMATA
10. GENGHIS KHAN

EDDIE ROMERO

1. TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG
2. KISAPMATA
3. MANILA BY NIGHT
4. MORAL
5. SCORPIO NIGHTS
6. MAYNILA SA KUKO NG LIWANAG
7. HINUGOT SA LANGIT
8. SALOME
9. TATLONG TAONG WALANG DIYOS
10. PARADISE INN

MEL CHIONGLO

1. JAGUAR
2. BATCH '81
3. BONA
4. KISAPMATA
5. HIMALA
6. SALOME
7. MAYNILA SA KUKO NG LIWANAG
8. ORO, PLATA, MATA
9. BURLESK QUEEN
10. SISTER STELLA L

MARILOU DIAZ ABAYA

1. MANILA BY NIGHT
2. THE MOISES PADILLA STORY
3. TINIMBANG KA NGUNIT KULANG
4. KISAPMATA
5. MORAL
6. GANITO KAMI NOON, PAANO KAYO NGAYON
7. BADJAO

LAURICE GUILLEN

1. SISA
2. THE MOISES PADILLA STORY
3. INSIANG
4. ORO, PLATA, MATA
5. SALOME
6. BIYAYA NG LUPA
7. KISAPMATA
8. IFUGAO
9. ANAK DALITA
10. BURLESK QUEEN

one thing in common......they all have Mike De Leon's KISAPMATA on their lists.

 8) 8) 8)
 
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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #78 on: Jul 17, 2005 at 11:14 PM »
in Marilou & Laurice's case they shouldn't have included their own films... if you'd notice none of the other director's included their own work.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #79 on: Jul 17, 2005 at 11:25 PM »
I noticed that also dude. Too bad Lino Brocka didn't come up with his lists. And if only these films are accessible on dvd.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #80 on: Jul 17, 2005 at 11:27 PM »
I noticed that also dude. Too bad Lino Brocka didn't come up with his lists. And if only these films are accessible on dvd.

unfortunately none of these films are available...

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #81 on: Jul 17, 2005 at 11:30 PM »
That makes Mike de Leon's KISAPMATA his best film?  ???

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #82 on: Jul 17, 2005 at 11:32 PM »
That makes Mike de Leon's KISAPMATA his best film?  ???

i guess if it's in all of their list... personally i still think ITIM is his best film.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #83 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 12:59 AM »
I prefer Kisapmata over Itim myself...but that's really splitting hairs, I think; they're both very good films.

David's book was useful for the lists of various people, but his use of statistics to come up with a master list I thought was silly...so Manila By Night comes out on top? Does his being a big fan of the film have nothing to do with it?

It's a great film, Bernal's masterpiece and all, but unspoken considerations like that tend to throw doubt on the process. I think the separate lists are more honest, and more persusasive.

And Romero was one of the few if not the only one who lists Tatlong Taong (no one asked Teddy Co, who back in 1976 rated the film above Insiang). Of course at this time the film wasn't in high favor; I'd say it was only with the 1993 or 1994 screening at Pelikula at Lipunan that the film's reputation started to turn around (Teddy, as usual, was ahead of his time).
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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #84 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 08:06 AM »
in Marilou & Laurice's case they shouldn't have included their own films... if you'd notice none of the other director's included their own work.

I was surprised to notice these inclusions too. It's so self-serving.

I'd like to know Abaya's top ten now. Would she have included her execrable Rizal to her own top ten list?

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #85 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 08:13 AM »
I was surprised to notice these inclusions too. It's so self-serving.

I'd like to know Abaya's top ten now. Would she have included her execrable Rizal to her own top ten list?

i would think so... when i spoke with her when she was here in New York during a screening of Sa Pusod Ng Dagat in 1999, Marilou was so ecstatic about Jose Rizal.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #86 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 08:20 AM »
I prefer Kisapmata over Itim myself...but that's really splitting hairs, I think; they're both very good films.


don't get me wrong... i think Kisapmata is a great film but Itim is not just technically superior, it's also very disturbing. Tommy Abuel's nightmare sequence for one comes to mind, and Susan Valdez' abortion scene add Max Jocson's haunting musical score and the ending whew!

Kisapmata boasts of outstanding performances from Vic Silayan, Charito Solis & Jay Ilagan... a solid script by Doy del Mundo, Racquel Villavicencio & Mike de Leon himself. but watching the movie just recently doesn't give it much impact as Itim still does to this very day or maybe it's just me...

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #87 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 08:36 AM »
What are the Best Filipino Films


The 1950s and the 1970s have emerged as the Golden Ages of Philippine cinema in recent times, judging by a poll conducted by Planet Philippines staffers among specialists in films, including directors, poets, screenplay writers, critics, and scholars.

The 1950s were dominated by film masters like the late Lamberto V. Avellana and the late Gerardo de Leon, many of whose films won awards here and abroad. Both became National Artists. Their masterpieces include (Avellana) Anak Dalita, Badjao and Portrait of the Artist as Filipino; and (de Leon) Noli Me Tangera, El Filibusterismo, and Sisa.

Most of the movies then were in black and white, with the better directors receiving their inspiration from Philippine history as well as the contemporary Philippine experience.

Political satire was evident in Juan Tamad Goes to Congress, directed by Manuel Conde, another master, whose Genghis Khan garnered praise from foreign critics and was shown abroad.

By the 1970s, two young directors — Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal — became outstanding, turning out a series of memorable films. Brocka megged Manila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag, recently adjudged a classic of world cinema, Insiang, Orapronobis, and other masterworks. Bernal directed Himala, Nunal sa Tubig and City After Dark, to name a few.

Brocka and Bernal, unfortunately died while in their prime, but both became posthumous National Artists. Another director of the 1980s, Mike de Leon, is no longer active these days. His last film, Bayaning Third World, was a critical hit but did not do good business. Cineastes are hoping that de Leon, a recluse, will be persuaded to direct once more.

In between the directors of the 1950s and the 1970s is Eddie Romero, now in his early 70s, who became a National Artist this year. Romero’s most cited film is Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon, a historical drama.

And we have the outstanding directors who continue to make good movies today, like Laurice Guillen (Salome), Marilou Diaz Abaya (Jose Rizal), Chito Roño (Bata Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa), Peque Gallaga (Oro Plata Mata), Joel Lamangan (The Flor Contemplacion Story), Gil Portes (Munting Tinig), Jeffrey Jeturian (Tubog), Lab Diaz (Batang West Side), Maryo de los Reyes (Magni-fico), Jose Javier Reyes (Makati Avenue), and Carlos Siguion Reyna (Azucena).

Here is a list of best Filipino films, as chosen by our respondents:

Lito Casaje
Director


Nunal sa Tubig
Orapronobis
Pagputi ng Uwak, Pag-itim Tagak
Kisapmata
Salome
Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag
Manila by Night
Tanging Yaman
Sa Pusod ng Dagat
Milagros
Mortal
Anak Dalita
Biyaya ng Lupa
Oro Plata Mata
 
Tony Espejo
Director


Nunal sa Tubig
Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag
Kisapmata
Insiang
Itim
Pacifica Falayfay
Tisoy
Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?
Olongapo
Oro Plata Mata
 
 
Jose F. Lacaba
Poet-Screenplay Writer
(“I have disqualified films I scripted.”)


Daigdig ng mga Api
Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag
Himala
Batch ’81
Oro Plata Mata
 
 
Nicanor G. Tiongson
Cultural Researcher


Noli Me Tangere
El Filibusterismo
Sisa
Anak Dalita
Portrait of the Artist as Filipino
Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?
Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag
Orapronobis
Gumapang Ka sa Lusak
Nunal sa Tubig
City After Dark
Himala
Batch ’81
Bayaning 3rd World
Oro Plata Mata
Salome
Moral
Bata Bata, Paano Ka Ginawa?
The Flor Contemplacion Story
Makati Avenue
Azucena
Magnifico
Munting Tinig
Tubog Sa Ginto
 
 
Nestor Torre
Columnist-Critic


Maynila: Sa Kuko ng Liwanag
Biyaya ng Lupa
Juan Tamad Goes to Congress
Geron Busabos, Ang Batang Quiapo
Kundiman ng Lahi
Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?
Batch ’81
Sister Stella L.
The Moises Padilla Story
José Rizal

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #88 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 10:02 AM »
i would think so... when i spoke with her when she was here in New York during a screening of Sa Pusod Ng Dagat in 1999, Marilou was so ecstatic about Jose Rizal.

Really? Yikes.  :o That movie was baaadd.

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Re: Top Ten Best Filipino Flicks
« Reply #89 on: Jul 18, 2005 at 12:43 PM »
Every filmmaker contribute to the growth of Philippine Cinema and each one has what I call their trademark or signature film. Brocka has MAYNILA SA KUKO NG LIWANAG, Bernal has HIMALA, O'HARA has TATLONG TAONG WALANG DIYOS, Guillen has SALOME, Gallaga has ORO PLATA MATA.

Of course not all of their films are good, there are films that they do just for the sake of money and others because of their love for their profession.
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