Author Topic: Filipino films (Read 501293 times)

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #330 on:** May 28, 2003 at 02:57 PM »

Quote from: RMN on May 28, 2003 at 02:45 PM

I hear that Eric Matti is set to direct the sequel to
Mano Po.

Good luck!

keating · « **Reply #331 on:** May 28, 2003 at 04:19 PM »

There was a news or announcement before that FLIP MOVIE CLUB will sponsor theshowing of TEMPTATION ISLAND by Joey Gosiengfiao.

I wonder why Jessica Zafra wants this movie so much, any comment on this sexy flick...Bro Noel?

Back when I was small my memories in this movie was the yummy Dina Bonnevie stranded in an island with a yaya and other bunch of beauties.

I wonder also what happened to that plan by Flip Movie Club?

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #332 on:** May 29, 2003 at 03:07 PM »

I agree with Jessica, it's a camp classic. Surreal camp with shocking colors before Pedro Almodovar thought to do it.

It wasn't Dina Bonnevie who had the maid...can't remember it now, but it wasn't Dina...

keating · « **Reply #333 on:** May 29, 2003 at 07:19 PM »

So Joey Gosiengfiao can beat Pedro Almodovar for TEMPTATION ISLAND, Noel?

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #334 on:** May 30, 2003 at 01:11 AM »

Quote from: keating on May 29, 2003 at 07:19 PM

So Joey Gosiengfiao can beat Pedro Almodovar for TEMPTATION ISLAND, Noel?

In a red second.

RMN · « **Reply #335 on:** Jun 03, 2003 at 08:46 PM »

Eddie Romero has just been named National Artist for Film. I wonder who'll be next???

gurang · « **Reply #336 on:** Jun 03, 2003 at 09:29 PM »

Quote from: RMN on Jun 03, 2003 at 08:46 PM

Eddie Romero has just been named National Artist for Film. I wonder who'll be next???

RMN (or anyone), gotta link for this? Am very curious who else got in, especially among the Lit people. Wala pa sa Inq7 or ABS websites.

gurang · « **Reply #337 on:** Jun 04, 2003 at 12:02 PM »

Quote from: gurang on Jun 03, 2003 at 09:29 PM

RMN (or anyone), gotta link for this? Am very curious who else got in, especially among the Lit people. Wala pa sa Inq7 or ABS websites.

The new National Artists are:

Filipino painter Jose Joya, stage designer Salvador Bernal, poet, literary critic and former head of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Virgilio "Rio" Almario, multi-awarded director Eddie Romero and folklorist Alejandro Roces.

Really really glad about Dean Joya, who is my favorite Pinoy painter. He was overlooked for many years due to personal issues which I don't recall now. Too bad he didn't live to see this day.

I wonder if the Roces choice will be controversial. Some years ago, when they chose the late Carlos Quirino, a historian and Ayala Alabang neighbor of Ramos, a lot of writers complained, saying that Quirino's output was not literary enough. Roces though might have been honored for his tireless promotion of traditional forms of Pinoy culture. And his ties with the Macapagal family did help.

Romero, I suppose, is being honored for works such as Ganito Kami... and not for Women in Chains or Beast of Blood. Haven't seen any of Romero's international productions, though I hear they do have a certain style to them.

National Artists get to have really cool funerals, with caissons and gun salutes and stuff. Nothing though like in France, where the funerals of great artists are actually carried live on national television.

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #338 on:** Jun 04, 2003 at 12:42 PM »

Salvador Bernal deserves it several times over.

Roces left a bad taste in the mouth when he was chairman of the MTRCB; his unceremonial booting was almost karmaishly satisfying.

gurang · « **Reply #339 on:** Jun 04, 2003 at 12:50 PM »

Quote from: Noel_Vera on Jun 04, 2003 at 12:42 PM

Roces left a bad taste in the mouth when he was chairman of the MTRCB; his unceremonial booting was almost karmaishly satisfying.

Roces is quaint.

They probably made him National Artist to apologize for the embarassing way he was fired from the MTRCB.

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #340 on:** Jun 04, 2003 at 01:01 PM »

If I remember right, he's a member of PEN, that group against the censorship of literature or something or another (well, maybe that's one of their functions). So literature can express itself fully and not film? Hypocrite.

gurang · « **Reply #341 on:** Jun 04, 2003 at 01:09 PM »

I just did a Google search, and turns out Roces was/is(?) the president of PEN, which is a organization of writers which is likewise internationally afilliated.

PEN was founded by F. Sionil Jose. Oh well, the company he keeps...

gurang · « **Reply #342 on:** Jun 06, 2003 at 03:57 PM »

Help! Last night, on Cinema One, I caught the last 5 minutes of what I suspect to be a short film. (It aired between Kisapmata, which I missed, and Aangkinin kita, a Stella Strada film) What I saw was rather interesting: the film is apparently set in the 1950s. From the little that I saw, the story involved an intellectual sort of person joins the underground, and his lover, who eventually is forced to betray him to the authorities at gunpoint. Before the end, the man gets to listen to a lot of radio reports, including that of a UFO sighting, interspersed with 50s music. In the end, the couple are led away by the agents, and the final scene shows a newspaper headline. The lead headline proclaims the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the communists, while a smaller headline notes the mysterious disappearance of the couple, suspected to have been a UFO abduction.

The movie starred Rina Reyes as the lover. Have no idea though who directed this, etc. From the end credits, it seems to have been a 1992 MMFF entry. Please advise, I'm interested to know more about this film. Thanks.

keating · « **Reply #343 on:** Jun 06, 2003 at 04:01 PM »

Quote from: Noel_Vera on May 29, 2003 at 03:07 PM

I agree with Jessica, it's a camp classic. Surreal camp with shocking colors before Pedro Almodovar thought to do it.

It wasn't Dina Bonnevie who had the maid...can't remember it now, but it wasn't Dina...

Finally saw it on vhs. The print was still excellent.

Noel and Jessica are right! It's pure campiness! The style, craftmanship of Joey Gosiengfiao.
She, er he is the MOST FLIRTY DIRECTOR OF PHIL. CINEMA.

What makes the film memorable is the performance of one of the supporting cast...the wacky DEBORAH SUN as the
yaya of Bambi Arambulo!

And the sexiness of the lead actresses...the yummy DINA BONNEVIE, AZENITH BRIONES & BAMBI ARAMBULO.

RMN · « **Reply #344 on:** Jun 06, 2003 at 09:13 PM »

Quote from: gurang on Jun 06, 2003 at 03:57 PM

Help! Last night, on Cinema One, I caught the last 5 minutes of what I suspect to be a short film. (It aired between Kisapmata, which I missed, and Aangkinin kita, a Stella Strada film) What I saw was rather interesting: the film is apparently set in the 1950s. From the little that I saw, the story involved an intellectual sort of person joins the underground, and his lover, who eventually is forced to betray him to the authorities at gunpoint. Before the end, the man gets to listen to a lot of radio reports, including that of a UFO sighting, interspersed with 50s music. In the end, the couple are led away by the agents, and the final scene shows a newspaper headline. The lead headline proclaims the fall of Dien Bien Phu to the communists, while a smaller headline notes the mysterious disappearance of the couple, suspected to have been a UFO abduction.

The movie starred Rina Reyes as the lover. Have no idea though who directed this, etc. From the end credits, it seems to have been a 1992 MMFF entry. Please advise, I'm interested to know more about this film. Thanks.

I've seen this twice already. Its title is MAALINSANGAN ANG GABI and was directed by Cesar Hernando.

gurang · « **Reply #345 on:** Jun 06, 2003 at 09:57 PM »

Quote from: RMN on Jun 06, 2003 at 09:13 PM

I've seen this twice already. Its title is MAALINSANGAN ANG GABI and was directed by Cesar Hernando.

Thanks RMN. I'll find out more about it.

milkeemee2 · « **Reply #346 on:** Jun 07, 2003 at 12:09 AM »

The appearance of respected writers or literary figures in movies thrills me no end. You can just imagine my happiness when I saw Alfredo Navarro Salanga ( R.I.P) who wrote so well in his column in Panorama (pre- Edsa 1) acting as the manager in Tikoy Aguiluz's Boatman. Can anybody remember if the guy won an award for that movie? I know he was nominated. How about you Noel, have you been invited to appear in any movie? I will definitely watch it.

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #347 on:** Jun 07, 2003 at 03:18 PM »

Quote from: milkeemee2 on Jun 07, 2003 at 12:09 AM

How about you Noel, have you been invited to appear in any movie? I will definitely watch it.

Me, respected figure? Ha! Well, I was one of Albert Martinez's patients in Rizal sa Dapitan, you can see my arm but only parts of my head when he's treating patients, just before he meets his good priest friend. I also wrote part of the script.

ROCKaBILLY · « **Reply #348 on:** Jun 08, 2003 at 04:47 PM »

i think when it comes to dialog mas watchable pa ang mga vintage movies from the 50's or 60's walang maga ambient sounds ng crowd o palengke at hindi nagsisigawan ang mga artista na parang nag-aagawan ng eksena. nakakapagod ang pelikulang pilipino ngayon dahil sa sampalan at sigawan.

ROCKaBILLY · « **Reply #349 on:** Jun 08, 2003 at 05:09 PM »

ive been following this thread for a long time na and the discussions center mostly on the films of the 70's to the present. wala bang interested the mga vintage films of the 40's-60's.
hindi ba filipino film ang topic dito or is there a thread somewhere focusing on these vintage films. let me know naman. i've been a collector of vintage films and i have an extensive library of vintage film memorabilia like posters stills magazines and video tapes (tho mostly recorded fromt tv. but i have early joseph estrada, dolphy, carmen rosales, dela rosa brothers fernando poe- more)
sana if you people are interested we can put up website on vintage film and i'm willing to be a part of it. just a thought. kasi wala tayong archive dito sa pilipinas tulad sa ibang bansa showing these cultural heritage called pelikulang pilipino. there were several attempt in the past to put up an archive pero hilaw na hilaw. and because it is politically and financially motivated walang nangyayari-puro ningas kugon. sayang lang. when a person need to research on filipino films wala siyang mapuntahan. i think its time na people like us na concerned sa pelikulang pilipino to initiate and do something about it. what do you think people?

indie boi · « **Reply #350 on:** Jun 08, 2003 at 10:00 PM »

The interest in films from the 40's to the 60's is there. The problem is logistics as these films are hard to find. It's cool that you have that collection. I'd love to see it one of these days.

RMN · « **Reply #351 on:** Jun 08, 2003 at 10:47 PM »

I just hope Mike de Leon's DVD project pushes through...

ROCKaBILLY · « **Reply #352 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 12:32 AM »

Quote from: indie boi on Jun 08, 2003 at 10:00 PM

The interest in films from the 40's to the 60's is there. The problem is logistics as these films are hard to find. It's cool that you have that collection. I'd love to see it one of these days.

why don't we organize an eb or a club wherein we can meet regularly and talk about films and maybe do film showing every meeting. lets do something for filipino film because nobody else is doing it.

DViant · « **Reply #353 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 12:53 AM »

Quote from: ROCKaBILLY on Jun 09, 2003 at 12:32 AM

why don't we organize an eb or a club wherein we can meet regularly and talk about films and maybe do film showing every meeting. lets do something for filipino film because nobody else is doing it.

What type of Pinoy film? Yung boldies?

It would be interesting to invite the film makers & even the stars during these Pinoy Film 'thons.

ROCKaBILLY · « **Reply #354 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 01:11 AM »

ive got nothing against these movie people, but past experiences show na once they get involve nahahaluan na ng politika and hidden agenda ang mga plans. i think its better to leave this in the hands of individuals na talagang may malasakit sa fil. films yung tipong gagawin lang ito dahil gusto nya at walagf ulterior motives.

Noel_Vera · « **Reply #355 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 02:00 AM »

Rockabilly:

Great if you want to put up a new group, if you have the resources, but if you don't medyo mahirap. Have you tried contacting established groups? SOFIA for one?

ROCKaBILLY · « **Reply #356 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 09:28 AM »

Quote from: Noel_Vera on Jun 09, 2003 at 02:00 AM

Rockabilly:

Great if you want to put up a new group, if you have the resources, but if you don't medyo mahirap. Have you tried contacting established groups? SOFIA for one?

hi noel,
i'm not putting up a new group. its just an idea na people like us who cares so much for the welfare of fil film do sometjhinhg about it. its not as formal as establishing an organization but rather a loose bonding of fil film lovers who can meet regularly discuss and enjoy each others company and contribution and maybe share the passion for films. now if something concrete comes out of this gathering then well and good, but the primary goal is to talk and enjoy fil films. maybe that's the first step.

gurang · « **Reply #357 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 10:07 AM »

Quote from: ROCKaBILLY on Jun 09, 2003 at 09:28 AM

hi noel,
i'm not putting up a new group. its just an idea na people like us who cares so much for the welfare of fil film do sometjhinhg about it. its not as formal as establishing an organization but rather a loose bonding of fil film lovers who can meet regularly discuss and enjoy each others company and contribution and maybe share the passion for films. now if something concrete comes out of this gathering then well and good, but the primary goal is to talk and enjoy fil films. maybe that's the first step.

I suggest likewise that a web presence is vital if you want to perk up interest in old Pinoy films. Web presence can be established even without need of any establishing any formal association. I am certain that there are many people out there, such as myself, who occasionally search the web for resources on old Filipino movies, only to find none or the bare minimum. I don't think you would need to possess an extensive database at first to be able to start-up this project: just share your love of these films online. (perhaps listing those films that you've seen together with a brief synopsis and maybe even a review, as well as prominent actors and filmmakers of that era) Once you do that, I am certain that there will be others out there who would be interact with you, sharing their own information and insights. I suspect that a lot of those who would be able to provide meaningful resources are situated abroad, and online presence would facilitate their involvement in such a project that ultimately could help provide an extensive resource base of these old Filipino movies.

I am sure, if you ask for it, that there will be people here at PinoyDVD who would be able to assist you in creating such a website, or providing some amount of resources. I think that "film appreciation societies" are fine and complementary, but I'm not sure they can do so much apart from providing a venue for social interaction among fellow film-lovers. Another possible problem about such groups is that anybody who is interested in learning about such films from that era, but have not seen enough movies, may be intimidated to immediately join such a group, which would, as expected, be composed mainly of people who are already well-versed in such films. An online presence would be of immense assistance to such "beginners". Much as I am ashamed to admit it now, my initial interest in film was piqued after purchasing a copy of Leonard Maltin's Guide to Films, and realizing that there was a world of film out there that I wouldn't be exposed to in the course of my daily life.

Personally, I love listening to old Filipino movies, because they don't write dialogue in that way anymore. (Much as I enjoy listening to Blas Ople speak, undesirable his views may be at times). My sensibilities though are more modern, and jaded. More importantly, we need to systematize and popularize the notion of Filipino film history, and I'd be glad to assist any efforts towards the same.

indie boi · « **Reply #358 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 12:29 PM »

Count me in assistance-wise.

pinoymovies · « **Reply #359 on:** Jun 09, 2003 at 01:03 PM »

For free web pages and ease of use, try Yahoo Geocities. I started a Nora Aunor Tribute Website and did not cost me a penny.

By the way, UP Film Center has a database of pinoymovies. It doesn't go as far back as 1950's though.