Amores Perros Apr 4, 6.30pm
Better than Tarantino, but doesn't transcend him.
Anak Apr 22, 4.30pm
Um...I don't know...
Ang Tatay Kong Nanay Apr 9, 7.45am; 12, 12.30pm; 16, 6.30pm
One of Dolphy's best performances (another would be Facifica Falayfay).
Atsay Apr 4, 4.30pm; 13, 2.30pm; 28, 9.30am
Um...I don't know again...
Batch '81 Apr 23, 8pm
Mike de Leon...a must see...
Bayarang Puso Apr 6, 6.30pm; 16, 4.30pm
Yuk.
Himala Apr 18, 2.30pm; 24, 6am
One of Bernal's most visual films...and prophetic--the town prefigures the lahar landscape of Pinatubo...
Itim Apr 18, 11.30pm; 27, 7.30am
Masterful gothic exercise...a first draft for Kisapmata...
Mila Apr 6, 9.30am; 21, 9.30pm; 29, 9.30am
Yicks.
Pila Balde Apr 22, 11.30pm
Jeffrey's best and I'd say Bing Lao's best after Takaw Tukso.
Shake Rattle and Roll 1 Apr 11, 9.30am; 13, 7.30am; 26, 4.30am
Frigyider by Bernal is my favorite...perverse horror comedy about a killer fridge...
Sisa Apr 17, 11.30pm
I think it's a great film, the greatest in the '90s; not a lot of people agree (though Kidlat Tahimik and Nonoy Lauzon of Young Critics Circle do). I don't blame em, but still...
Tuhog Apr 8, 9.30am
Pretty good, tho there are some flaws in the premise and the film doesn't go far enough. First time Ina Raymundo gives a good performance, and she's fantastic. Great performance, however, by Irma Adlawan as Ina's mom...
Wating Apr 5, 8.45am; 11, 2.30pm
Disappointing last film by Ishmael Bernal. You wonder if he was high when he shot this...
A few missed out:
Perfumed Garden, April 10 at 11.30 pm.
Not Celso Ad. Castillo at his best, but still some striking images and edited sequences and I think a terrific performance from Michael de Mesa...
Bomba Star, April 11 at 11.30 pm.
Joey Gosengfiao gives Alma Moreno the star treatment. Great camp; funny performances from everyone, even Eddie Guttierrez as a gay macho.
Johnny Tinoso and the Proud Beauty, April 17 at 12 pm; April 21 at 7.45 am.
Flawed film, full of production shortages (the special effects are embarrassing) about a monstrous beast named Johnny (Jestoni Alarcon) and an arrogant beauty (Gretchen Baretto). Overall, Nick Joaquin hated this adaptation.
But Johnny is cured of his curse in the middle and not at the end of the film...and what follows is an interesting variant of the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale. Gretchen is a wittier, bitsier beauty than the rather tepid creature in the Disney version. The ending I think is lovely.
La Vida Rosa, April 24 at 9.30 am
One of Chito Rono's best, thanks to a noirish script by Amado Lao
Misteryo sa Tuwa, April 25, 9 am
One of the ECP films, a fable like story about a few men who discover a suitcasefull of money in a plane crash. Prefigures A Simple Plan by decades. Quite good.