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Entertainment => Film & TV Talk => Pinoy Entertainment => Topic started by: Centurion Obama on Nov 17, 2005 at 01:07 AM
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I have tickets for this movie. if anybody wants.
anyway, it's showing on Saturday, Nov. 19, 7 PM at the UP Film Center.
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It's pretty okay. The script isn't great, but I like the direction, and I thought Yul Servo was very good--different from his usual promdi persona.
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I have tickets for this movie. if anybody wants.
anyway, it's showing on Saturday, Nov. 19, 7 PM at the UP Film Center.
Bah. Can't catch it due to work. Will this be shown elsewhere?
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dunno ;D
man, your work sucks. can't believe you work saturdays.
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I want, how much are the tickets? I'll go there right after class.
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hehe, they're free. actually the entrance is free but they gave away tickets anyway. i guess it's more a promotional tool than anything else. i'll give you some for souvenirs anyway ;D
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dunno ;D
man, your work sucks. can't believe you work saturdays.
You said it Joey! Man, I even work Sundays! >:( 8)
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so we could just go there to watch the film? pipila lang kami? or we need to ask for tickets from someone there? :)
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It's free! I think they just want to build word-of-mouth kasi muna.
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Sa Ilalim ng Cogon - Rico Maria Ilarde
Sam (Yul Servo), an ex-soldier who finds himself in jail for vagrancy is hired, along with his jail cellmate Pepito (Raul Morit), by ganglord Johnny-B (Dido dela Paz) to steal laundered money from a tiles factory. Pepito reneges and gets killed by Sam in self defense. Sam, with a bagful of loot and without any means of transfortation, walks his way to a mysterious house wherein he meets a beautiful girl Katia (Julia Clarete), who hides a hideous secret. Rico Maria Ilarde directed Ang Babaeng Putik which I found to be a flawed yet interesting horror film. Sa Ilalim ng Cogon (Beneath the Cogon) bears Ilarde's signature style and unfortunately his obvious weaknesses. Undaunted by limited funding, Ilarde focuses on what he has which is a talented eye, a guided sense for atmosphere, and a Roger Corman-like ability to stretch a budget to cater his monstrous designs. Ilarde's story here, I think, is straightforward and somewhat predictable. He could've saved this story for his portion in the upcoming Shake, Rattle, and Roll installment as the plot doesn't seem to be fit for a feature length film. The promise is plentiful yet the outcome is far less satisfying. What it lacks in plot twists, is complemented by some quirky directorial decisions. He manages to infuse a few stylish quirks that furthers the material from something unfortunately generic into an enjoyable mishmash of everything. There's a brash thug who engages Sam in a brief yet adequately directed fight scene. Then, there's Ilarde's brilliant touch (the only thing that I thought gave the film a much needed humanity) - a romantic urge between Sam and the mysterious Katia that ends the film in a blurry yet ultimately salvaging note. A friend of mine thought the romance between Sam and Katia was inadequate as the characterizations were insuffient. I also thought the characterizations were insufficient but I concluded that the romantic sidestory is adequately laid - a girl who has never seen a guy for a big part of her life, and a guy who seeks his wife who has left him - a match made in heaven, I thought. Anyway, Sa Ilalim ng Cogon is a mixed bag - it has too much of everything yet too little to make an entirely brilliant film. ***/*****
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Ilarde needs to find a good scriptwriter to do his brand of horror-action. But he does work miracles on a small budget.
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Dammit. Rico Ilarde reserved tickets for me for the Nov 19 7PM screening as well. Unfortunately, my hectic schedule didn't allow me to attend.
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Sa Ilalim Ng Kogon (http://pelikula.blogspot.com/2005/11/sa-ilalim-ng-kogon-beneath-cogon.html)
Nice one, I thought.
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Sa Ilalim Ng Cogon premieres on Cinema One this Sunday, Septermber 21 at 8 pm.
The film looks great, if you go by the previews they've been showing. I thought the projection I saw at UP was topnotch but this is just so crisp and shiny.
Film's good, too. My favorite of Rico's.
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Sa Ilalim Ng Cogon premieres on Cinema One this Sunday, Septermber 21 at 8 pm.
The film looks great, if you go by the previews they've been showing. I thought the projection I saw at UP was topnotch but this is just so crisp and shiny.
Film's good, too. My favorite of Rico's.
I saw the trailer in CinemaOne... The visuals are clearer than what was projected in UP and CCP, and it looks wonderful. Altar's my favorite, but this one's undoubtedly good.
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I watched this last year. The direction was scattered, to say the least. Could have been better.