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Entertainment => Film & TV Talk => Pinoy Entertainment => Topic started by: keating on Aug 06, 2004 at 10:18 PM
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Their films are not on the lists of The Greatest Filipino Films ever made but these two filmmakers of Philippine Cinema made the 70's & 80's exciting as their films are sexy, campy with some social commentaries thrown in.
As Jessica Zafra would say in her Twisted Flicks book...they are....
The Fabulous Twin B**ches of Philippine Cinema.... ;D
Who's the best between the two?
Joey is our very own Pedro Almodovar... Temptation Island can prove that....Elwood has Stepsisters & Waikiki....some trophies for Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit....
Will there be retrospective film festival for these two in the future?
Let the showdown begins.... ;D
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Their films are not on The Greatest Filipino Films ever made but these two filmmakers of Philippine Cinema made the 70's & 80's exciting as their films exudes sexiness, campiness with some social commentaries thrown in.
Who's the best between the two?
Joey is our very own Pedro Almodovar... Temptation Island can prove that....Elwood has Stepsisters & Waikiki....some trophies for Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit....
Will there be retrospective film festival for these two in the future?
Let the showdown begins.... ;D
i could definitely say that Elwood Perez is the better filmmaker among the two but Joey Gosiengfiao has a more cinematic eye. it's funny... they both started as directors of so-called bold movies in the early 70's. with Elwood directing movies like Bawal Asawa Mo, Asawa Ko & Divorce Pilipino Style while Joey started making films like Huwag Hamakin Hostess with Nora Aunor & Alma Moreno this was even before both started making movies for Regal. although Elwood became a more distinguished as a filmmaker for his bravery in making movies like Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit & Pacita M. Joey started line producing movies for Good Harvest and the result were films like Sana Pag-Ibig Na & Pila Balde.
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Don't forget Jo that Joey did The Diary of Cristina Gaston wherein I found Alma worthy as an actress....Elwood can also deliver the goods with of course powered by electrifying perf from Nora with those flicks.....Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit & Pacita M.
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Don't forget Jo that Joey did The Diary of Cristina Gaston wherein I found Alma worthy as an actress....Elwood can also deliver the goods with of course powered by electrifying perf from Nora with those flicks.....Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit & Pacita M.
i do have The Diary if Christina Gaston on vhs... maybe it's about time to watch it again.
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I'd say Joey--he's got the wilder imagination.
Alma I'd say proved herself as an actress as early as Mga Bilanggong Birhen.
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I'd say Joey--he's got the wilder imagination.
Alma I'd say proved herself as an actress as early as Mga Bilanggong Birhen.
Alma was also very good in Manila By Night... but i really loved her performance in Hiyas the only time she was directed by Lino Brocka.
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Alma was also very good in Manila By Night...
Oh yeah, she outshone Lorna T. there. But then Lorna was only starting out.
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Oh yeah, she outshone Lorna T. there. But then Lorna was only starting out.
i guess Lorna's role wasn't as interesting as Alma's...
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Alma was also very good in Manila By Night... but i really loved her performance in Hiyas the only time she was directed by Lino Brocka.
I wonder who killed her in Manila by night? LT? That's one of the best scenes in that Bernal classic matched with fireworks on New Year's eve.... 8)
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I wonder who killed her in Manila by night? LT? That's one of the best scenes in that Bernal classic matched with fireworks on New Year's eve.... 8)
that's one of the great moments in Manila By Night... it kept us guessing. same with Himala.
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that's one of the great moments in Manila By Night... it kept us guessing. same with Himala.
Out of the topic.. Ishma wrote Manila by Night with some help from Ricky Lee as script consultant.
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Out of the topic.. Ishma wrote Manila by Night with some help from Ricky Lee as script consultant.
as a matter of fact he did... with Jorge Arago, Toto Belano & Bernal himself.
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as a matter of fact he did... with Jorge Arago, Toto Belano & Bernal himself.
Jojo...this is nostalgia trip down memory lane.
Whatever happened to Toto Belano? I was surprised to know that the man wrote Gosiengfiao's campy....TEMPTATION ISLAND!
Also Elwood's....WAIKIKI. What are his other writing credits? Is he in the U.S. also?
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Jojo...this is nostalgia trip down memory lane.
Whatever happened to Toto Belano? I was surprised to know that the man wrote Gosiengfiao's campy....TEMPTATION ISLAND!
Also Elwood's....WAIKIKI. What are his other writing credits? Is he in the U.S. also?
that's okay Keating... Toto Belano wrote a lot of Elwood & Joey's earlier films. aside from Temptation Island he also wrote Katorse, Nympha, Bomba Star, Bedspacers.
and for Elwood he wrote Mahal Mo, Mahal Ko, Sugar Daddy, Magkaribal and a lot more
i believe he's now in San Francisco.
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Joel David's book The National Pastime mentioned Joey Gosiengfiao and Elwood Perez as among those 'keeping the faith' with their Sine Pilipino/Juan de la Cruz productions.
Before Lino Brocka started the second golden age of Philippine movies with Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang and Maynila sa Kuko ng Liwanag, Joey Gosiengfiao was came up with his Vilma Santos trilogy: Takbo, Vilma, Dali; Hatinggabi na, Vilma and Lipad, Darna, Lipad. Elwood Perez made Tatlong Gabi, Isang Babae and Bawal: Asawa Mo, Asawa Ko.
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that's okay Keating... Toto Belano wrote a lot of Elwood & Joey's earlier films. aside from Temptation Island he also wrote Katorse, Nympha, Bomba Star, Bedspacers.
and for Elwood he wrote Mahal Mo, Mahal Ko, Sugar Daddy, Magkaribal and a lot more
i believe he's now in San Francisco.
Thanks for the info....Jo. :)
Nympha was a re-make right? Bedspacers If I remember right was an ensemble piece of vignettes in campus.
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Thanks for the info....Jo. :)
Nympha was a re-make right? Bedspacers If I remember right was an ensemble piece of vignettes in campus.
you're welcome Keating...
Nympha wasn't actually a remake but there was indeed a movie called Nympha in the late '60's directed by Celso Ad Castillo... i guess they just used the title but they're two different films. Castillo's Nympha was way better than Gosiengfiao's. i cannot say that Bedspacers was an ensemble piece of vignettes in campus. well it starred Alma Moreno, Amy Austria & Al Tantay and the movie was about college co-eds trying to make it in the big city and that Alma & Amy's characters shared a room in a tenement with Al Tantay. it's in this movie where Alma had her very first breast exposure... of course it was a quick one for it was shortened by the censors. ;)
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Those films by Joey & Elwood were done in good taste when it comes to skin exposure.
Do you have on video the original Nympha by Celso Ad Castillo?
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it's in this movie where Alma had her very first breast exposure... of course it was a quick one for it was shortened by the censors. ;)
What year was Bedspacers? There was nudity in Bilanggong Birhen in 1977.
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What year was Bedspacers? There was nudity in Bilanggong Birhen in 1977.
Alma showed her behind in Bilanggong Birhen while she had her very first breast exposure in Bedspacers... the movie was released in 1980.
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Those films by Joey & Elwood were done in good taste when it comes to skin exposure.
Do you have on video the original Nympha by Celso Ad Castillo?
both Joey & Elwood's films were of the bold genre... compared to the ST movies of the '90's they were more tame although the adult content of their films were much more relevant.
i don't have a copy of Celso Ad Castillo's Nympha... i just had the chance to watch it in college.
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Alma showed her behind in Bilanggong Birhen while she had her very first breast exposure in Bedspacers... the movie was released in 1980.
I definitely remember very perky, somewhat dark (not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm the United Nations when it comes to pigmentation) nipples in Bilanggong Birhen, the sacrifice scene. Could be a stunt double, though.
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Regal cashed on Joey's youth oriented flicks back in 1980. Underage, Blue Jeans, Summer Holiday can't remember the other flicks...
Elwood did Summertime or something like that....my memory is so short in movie titles....
The two didn't dwell on bold genre alone, even youth-oriented flicks were touched by the two.
There's the other one that slipped on my memory where Snooky & Gabby formed a love triangle with a cancer patient....real cancer victim....megged by Elwood.
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Regal cashed on Joey's youth oriented flicks back in 1980. Underage, Blue Jeans, Summer Holiday can't remember the other flicks...
Elwood did Summertime or something like that....my memory is so short in movie titles....
The two didn't dwell on bold genre alone, even youth-oriented flicks were touched by the two.
There's the other one that slipped on my memory where Snooky & Gabby formed a love triangle with a cancer patient....real cancer victim....megged by Elwood.
you're right Keating! other youth oriented movies megged by Joey would be Where Love Has Gone, Bata Pa Si Sabel, 14 Going Steady & The Story of Three Loves. Elwood on the other hand made Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, a handful of the Vilma Boyet movies for Manay Ichu... Pakawalan Mo Ako, Nakawin Natin Ang Bawat Sandali, Masarap, Masakit Ang Umibig and a lot more. Miracle Of Love was the film with Gabby & Janice with Roxanne Abad Santos. the movie was shot entirely in the US. Elwood also directed I'll Wait For You again with Gabby & Janice. he also did two othe films in the US Lollipops & Roses at Burong Talangka with Ate Guy & Pinay American Style with Vilma.
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you're right Keating! other youth oriented movies megged by Joey would be Where Love Has Gone, Bata Pa Si Sabel, 14 Going Steady & The Story of Three Loves. Elwood on the other hand made Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, a handful of the Vilma Boyet movies for Manay Ichu... Pakawalan Mo Ako, Nakawin Natin Ang Bawat Sandali, Masarap, Masakit Ang Umibig and a lot more. Miracle Of Love was the film with Gabby & Janice with Roxanne Abad Santos. the movie was shot entirely in the US. Elwood also directed I'll Wait For You again with Gabby & Janice. he also did two othe films in the US Lollipops & Roses at Burong Talangka with Ate Guy & Pinay American Style with Vilma.
MIRACLE OF LOVE was beautifully shot & photographed! I'll still watch this other than those crap love stories produced by major studios out there. Its not Janice but Snooky I think....I still remember the court room scene in Joey's....Where Love has Gone.
was that a box-office hit during that time?
Thanks for the title...Jo. You are really a Film Historian or shall I say Film Guru like Noel. :)
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MIRACLE OF LOVE was beautifully shot & photographed! I'll still watch this other than those crap love stories produced by major studios out there. Its not Janice but Snooky I think....I still remember the court room scene in Joey's....Where Love has Gone.
was that a box-office hit during that time?
Thanks for the title...Jo. You are really a Film Historian or shall I say Film Guru like Noel. :)
you're welcome Keating... i'm really a child of the '80's and i really spent most of my youth watching all these movies.
Where Love Has Gone was indeed a big box office hit... don't forget that the movie also starred Julie Vega & Janice de Belen.
i'm not quite sure how Noel will react to your comment... but thanks anyway. :)
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I still have to dig those old movies by Elwood & Joey since most are not available on video.
If you want to sell some of your vhs pls. let me know....or pa-transfer na lang dude on dvd... ;)
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I still have to dig those old movies by Elwood & Joey since most are not available on video.
If you want to sell some of your vhs pls. let me know....or pa-transfer na lang dude on dvd... ;)
marami ako niyan... especially Elwood's PM Mo na lang sa 'kin. ;)
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marami ako niyan... especially Elwood's PM Mo na lang sa 'kin. ;)
Jo that's great! He-he-he you're like manna from heaven. :)
Dude I still have to see SHAME by Elwood. ;D
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Jo that's great! He-he-he you're like manna from heaven. :)
Dude I still have to see SHAME by Elwood. ;D
thanks! from one cinephile to another. ;D
i think you'll like Elwood's Shame... way better than the Ina Raymundo re-make.
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thanks! from one cinephile to another. ;D
i think you'll like Elwood's Shame... way better than the Ina Raymundo re-make.
I'm curious on that movie....SHAME.
Even the trailer I haven't seen it during my grade school days but I'm familiar with Sinner or Saint. ;D
Ina's SHAME was a bad crap but Elwood's was a good crap. ;D
Sent you pm....Jo. ;)
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I'm curious on that movie....SHAME.
Even the trailer I haven't seen it during my grade school days but I'm familiar with Sinner or Saint.
do you want me to post the movie's plot? ;D
huwag na lang kaya... just watch it.
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do you want me to post the movie's plot? ;D
huwag na lang kaya... just watch it.
Dare Jo....just a slice of SHAME...he-he-he. ;D
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Dare Jo....just a slice of SHAME...he-he-he. ;D
hintayin mo na lang... then you can post your own review of the movie. :)
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hintayin mo na lang... then you can post your own review of the movie. :)
I'm getting more curious on SHAME.... ;D
sent you pm...Jo..... ;)
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I'm getting more curious on SHAME.... ;D
sent you pm...Jo..... ;)
just read your PM... interesting list. ;)
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i'm not quite sure how Noel will react to your comment... but thanks anyway. :)
The more the merrier! ;D
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just read your PM... interesting list. ;)
God....you have almost all of my lists! :o
How did you take care of those vintage flicks on vhs....jo?
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The more the merrier! ;D
Move on...Noel. Finally there's someone who will compete with you as Film Guru. ;D
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God....you have almost all of my lists! :o
How did you take care of those vintage flicks on vhs....jo?
believe me it's difficult... but i'm glad i did. i can just go back & re-watch a movie at whim.
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How long did it took Elwood to finish...Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit? It started shooting in 1986 but only shown in 1989.
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How long did it took Elwood to finish...Bilangin ang Bituin sa Langit? It started shooting in 1986 but only shown in 1989.
the shoot for Bilangin was about two years. patigil-tigil kasi... kaya if you notice may mga scenes na ang liliit pa ng mga kapatid ni Ate Guy then sa sumunod na eksena biglang ang lalaki na nila.
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the shoot for Bilangin was about two years. patigil-tigil kasi... kaya if you notice may mga scenes na ang liliit pa ng mga kapatid ni Ate Guy then sa sumunod na eksena biglang ang lalaki na nila.
Since most of my cousins are all Vilmanians except for one, they didn't care for Bilangin....I do believe that it's a great film although the flaw could be blame for Ate Guy's dual role. ;)
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Since most of my cousins are all Vilmanians except for one, they didn't care for Bilangin....I do believe that it's a great film although the flaws could be blame for Ate Guy's dual role. ;)
really? so dapat pala ipakilala mo sa 'kin ang Noranian cousin mo. ;D member ba siya ng ICON?
Bilangin is indeed one of Elwood's best... it reminded me so much of movies from the golden era... ang sarap balikan.
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really? so dapat pala ipakilala mo sa 'kin ang Noranian cousin mo. ;D member ba siya ng ICON?
Bilangin is indeed one of Elwood's best... it reminded me so much of movies from the golden era... ang sarap balikan.
He's not a member of ICON...jo. We are one compound in our household almost all are movie buffs from Filipino flicks to Hollywood blockbusters. I had the baptism of fire when I watched Superman 2 at Maxim theatre and nabitbit din ako ng mga cousin ko to watch BROKEN MARRIAGE. ;D
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He's not a member of ICON...jo. We are one compound in our household almost all are movie buffs from Filipino flicks to Hollywood blockbusters. I had the baptism of fire when I watched Superman 2 at Maxim theatre and nabitbit din ako ng mga cousin ko to watch BROKEN MARRIAGE. ;D
sabihin mo sa kanya mag-member :) ako nga six years old pa lang isinama ng mother ko na manood ng Winter Holiday immediately after watching the movie instant Noranian na ako. i have no idea how my love for film got started... maybe when i saw Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos in a third run cinema sa Antipolo. i wasn't able to watch it during it's regular run kasi for adults only.
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sabihin mo sa kanya mag-member :) ako nga six years old pa lang isinama ng mother ko na manood ng Winter Holiday immediately after watching the movie instant Noranian na ako. i have no idea how my love for film got started... maybe when i saw Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos in a third run cinema sa Antipolo. i wasn't able to watch it during it's regular run kasi for adults only.
Sure I'll tell him. I'm excited already to watch Gumising Ka Maruja aside from Shame... ;D
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Sure I'll tell him. I'm excited already to watch Gumising Ka Maruja aside from Shame... ;D
Shame i'm definitely sure you'll love... i just took out my copy of Gumising ilalagay ko sa vcr ko let's see kung puwede pang ma-save.
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Try to save Gumising Ka Maruja...its from Lea productions right?
They have a theatre before here in Malabon but it was replaced already by an office building. Kaya nga I believe the master prints of those movies are lurking somewhere in our hometown including Celso Ad castillo's...patayin sa sindak si Barbara...
Will the late Claudia Zobel haunt me after watching Shame? ;D
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Try to save Gumising Ka Maruja...its from Lea productions right?
They have a theatre before here in Malabon but it was replaced already by an office building. Kaya nga I believe the master prints of those movies are lurking somewhere in our hometown including Celso Ad castillo's...patayin sa sindak si Barbara...
Will the late Claudia Zobel haunt me after watching Shame? ;D
she'll probably haunt you after watching Shame ;D
Gumising Ka Maruja was produced by Rosas Productions owned by Susan Roces. i think may kopya nito ang FPJ... maingat kasi sila sa mga kanilang mga movies. hindi yata nagawang torotot ang mga prints nila. ;)
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The late Claudia Zobel did only 4 movies. In Sinner or Saint was her burial included?
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The late Claudia Zobel did only 4 movies. In Sinner or Saint was her burial included?
during the movie's theatrical run her burial was included but not sa home video version ng movie. :(
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during the movie's theatrical run her burial was included but not sa home video version ng movie. :(
She looks like Opalyn Forster. Too bad she died in a car accident. Competent directors handled her in those movies.
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She looks like Opalyn Forster. Too bad she died in a car accident. Competent directors handled her in those movies.
you think so? yeah that's too bad she died in a car accident... Claudia was handled by Elwood in Shame, Mario O'Hara in Uhaw Sa Pag-Ibig, Mel Chionglo in Sinner or Saint & Lino Brocka in Kapit Sa Patalim.
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The more the merrier! ;D
thanks Noel! ;D
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i was just watching Joey Gosiengfiao's The Diary Of Christina Gaston and i just realized that in most of his movies he used a lot of canned music... i wonder why Demet Velasquez gets credit for musical score...
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Celia Rodriguez has always been Joey's contravida in most of his films. she's the perfect actress to play such roles since most of his movies were over the top... i cannot forget her wearing a flaming red gown coming out of a red Mercedes Benz during a burial scene in Katorse... and of course as Albert Martinez' mother in Bata Pa Si Sabel.
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i was just watching Joey Gosiengfiao's The Diary Of Christina Gaston and i just realized that in most of his movies he used a lot of canned music... i wonder why Demet Velasquez gets credit for musical score...
Joey has done some respectable youth-oriented movies. But seeing BLUE JEANS with poor editing, made him an abysmal one.
The movie's only saving grace was the soundtrack by the Apo Hiking Society.
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Joey has done some respectable youth-oriented movies. But seeing BLUE JEANS with poor editing, made him an abysmal one.
The movie's only saving grace was the soundtrack by the Apo Hiking Society.
he has done quite a handful of respectable youth oriented movies... he also used Jun Latonio to be his musical director in some of his movies most notably Blue Jeans & Bakit Ba Ganyan? although the last film he did Nights Of Serafina was just awful.
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he has done quite a handful of respectable youth oriented movies... he also used Jun Latonio to be his musical director in some of his movies most notably Blue Jeans & Bakit Ba Ganyan? although the last film he did Nights Of Serafina was just awful.
Yeah...he lost his touch on Nights of Serafina where the cast were just posing for a cologne ad just like Tony Scott's....TOP GUN.
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Yeah...he has lost his touch on Nights of Serafina where the cast were just posing for a cologne ad just like Tony Scott's....TOP GUN.
and that was the last movie he directed... what a shame. ;)
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and that was the last movie he directed... what a shame. ;)
I don't know what came to his mind to accept that project....btw he was part of Lav Diaz' BATANG WESTSIDE as one of the producers....sort of a way to redeem himself after that awful movie.... ;D
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Yeah...he has lost his touch on Nights of Serafina where the cast were just posing for a cologne ad just like Tony Scott's....TOP GUN.
It had its camp moments, like when Mike Magat pushed whatshername's face into the platter of food...
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It had its camp moments, like when Mike Magat pushed whatshername's face into the platter of food...
who? Georgia Ortega? ;D
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who? Georgia Ortega? ;D
No offense meant to her but she looks like the female version of Kingkong due to her massive height.... ;D
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Yeah Georgia Ortega. Can't remember her name.
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Yeah Georgia Ortega. Can't remember her name.
maybe 'coz her performance was forgettable?
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Maybe, except for the face in the food scene. I actually liked Angelika better there (and she was great in Mario O'Hara's Manananggal in Manila).
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Maybe, except for the face in the food scene. I actually liked Angelika better there (and she was great in Mario O'Hara's Manananggal in Manila).
oh yeah Angelika de la Cruz was in Nights Of Serafina... her's was a short role wasn't she the young probinsyana who fell in love with Caloy Salvador in the movie?
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Short but pretty. And she was very, very good in my favoirte recent Ricky Lee script, the short segment Ang Kuba in (if I remember correctly) Magandang Hatinggabi.
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Joey Gosiengfiao greenlight the so-called "pito pito" films wherein the likes of Lav Diaz, Jeffrey Jeturian came out.
A few years later he & jeffrey had a misunderstanding when he deleted some scenes before the theatrical run of Jeff's TUHOG.
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Joey Gosiengfiao greenlight the so-called "pito pito" films wherein the likes of Lav Diaz, Jeffrey Jeturian came out.
A few years later he & jeffrey had a misunderstanding when he deleted some scenes before the theatrical run of Jeff's TUHOG.
yeah Joey was the head of Good Harvest Production the independent film arm of Regal.
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Is it true Jo that almost 90% of all the trailers/sneak previews in Regal are made by Joey?
I don't know if they already patched up their diffrences....Jeffrey & Joey.
BTW... TUHOG was screened in Venice Film Festival.
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Is it true Jo that almost 90% of all the trailers/sneak previews in Regal are made by Joey?
I don't know if they already patched up their diffrences....Jeffrey & Joey.
BTW... TUHOG was screened in Venice Film Festival.
i have to say yes to this one Keating... although each movie Regal makes has a trailer director it's still basically Joey's call.
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Are you in contact with Joey, Jojo? Does he have--gasp--email now?! :o
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i have to say yes to this one Keating... although each movie Regal makes has a trailer director it's still basically Joey's call.
He should be rich by now....shall I say stockholder of Regal Films. He helped built that company.
Did he also discover Alma? Almost all of her movies were made by him in the 70's, 80's.
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Rich? Well, he owns a club, he has a van with a driver, he's got a cellphone (that he doesn't know how to send text messages with). Sometimes his phone gets cut off. Maybe, yeah.
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Rich? Well, he owns a club, he has a van with a driver, he's got a cellphone (that he doesn't know how to send text messages with). Sometimes his phone gets cut off. Maybe, yeah.
That set him apart from Elwood... saw the man a few years back in Mag-Net in Mega and he was talking to somebody over the phone, he has no cell.... ;D
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Noel what could be the Best Film of the two? Just print yesterday your essay on the late Ishmael Bernal..... :)
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TEMPTATION ISLAND
Forget Pedro Almodovar, THIS is the great surreal camp classic.
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TEMPTATION ISLAND
Forget Pedro Almodovar, THIS is the great surreal camp classic.
Thanks...Noel. How about Elwood?
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He should be rich by now....shall I say stockholder of Regal Films. He helped built that company.
Did he also discover Alma? Almost all of her movies were made by him in the 70's, 80's.
he should... but who knows? hopefully he invested his money well.
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TEMPTATION ISLAND
Forget Pedro Almodovar, THIS is the great surreal camp classic.
What happened to Jessica Zafra's....FLIP Movie Club? I thought they will screen this Gosiengfiao flick.
The print which Cinema One shows still exist and pristine.
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What happened to Jessica Zafra's....FLIP Movie Club? I thought they will screen this Gosiengfiao flick.
The print which Cinema One shows still exist and pristine.
Temptation Island is indeed a camp classic... it's usually shown on cinema one & is now available on vcd at regalfilms.com
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One of the greatest moments in TEMPTATION ISLAND was the explosion of the ship...it looks like it was just copy & paste something like an illustration especially the fire scene.... ;D ;D ;D
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I'd say one of the great moments out of many in Temptation Island is the giant chicken...that, or the giant ice cream cone...
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I'd say one of the great moments out of many in Temptation Island is the giant chicken...that, or the giant ice cream cone...
i remember watching a retrospective documentary on the making of Temptation Island and Mel Chionglo the films' Production Designer said the giant chicken & ice cream were all made of paper mache that they would crumple due to the intense heat...
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Gosiengfiao's The Rape of Virginia P is an outrageous take on the rape-revenge genre.There's even a delightfully tasteless "pause-play" love scene.
One of my former co-workers knew Elwood Perez personally.He told me the man was something of a cheapskate.
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Just saw Elwood Perez' ALEXANDRA last night and its more bombastic than SILIP, Perez entry to the softcore bandwagon after the Edsa Revolution. Man, Angela Perez is so hot in that movie. ;D
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One of my former co-workers knew Elwood Perez personally.He told me the man was something of a cheapskate.
Treated me to a pizza and drove me all the way home. But he knew who I was. Even then, I've talked to him quite a few times and found him a pretty nice guy. Same with Joey--they're two of the nicest filmmakers in the business.
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The two are not really the eccentric type (Gosiengfiao & Perez), yeah heard some very good feedback about them. Critic Rafael Guerrero cites the two as the most influential filmmakers of the 70's.
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Most influential? Depends on what kind of influence he's talking about and who's being influenced.
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Got introduced to Direk Elwood last night; all these years, whenever I 'd see him in various screenings, I thought he was Willy Milan!!! ;D
Have you met previously, Joey, or was it your first time last night? :D
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I've met him before. :D
He's kewl, no?
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Does Elwood knows how to use a mobile phone now? I remember seeing him many times in Mag Net in Sm Megamall and the staff in that store were very cordial in letting him use their landline phone. Looks like he has no mobile phone. ;D
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MARK GIL on UNDERAGE, BEDSPACERS by Joey Gosiengfiao
" Pang commercial man ang mga pelikula ni Joey Gosiengfiao, intelligent pa din ang dating!"
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I was just watching the movie Babae... Ngayon At Kailanman starring Charito Solis, Gloria Diaz, Vivian Velez, Chanda Romero, Dindo Fernando, Ronaldo Valdez & Tommy Abuel. This 1974 film was directed by Joey Gosiengfiao. Babae is Gosiengfiao at his finest. Of the three episodes, I liked the last one best. Juego De Prenda written by Wilfredo Nolledo is about a promise that transcends time and this was years before Somewhere In Time or even Danny Zialcita's Karma. Featuring remarkable performances from a very young Chanda Romero & Tommy Abuel. I agree with Elwood Perez when he said once in an interview that Joey has a great flair for visuals. This talent is evident in the film, thanks in part to Betty Gosiengfiao's excellent production design. The music by Lutgardo Labad is haunting while Loreto Isleta's camerawork enhanced the mood of each carefully constructed scene. I read articles about Joey's comeback to filmmaking, hopefully he will again entice us with a movie similar to Babae... Ngayon At Kailanman, or maybe even better.
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I only saw the episode with Tommy Abuel & Chanda Romero on tv many many years ago. I bet the film is not complete anymore. Yeah, GOSIENGFIAO has an eye for visuals especially gothic horror. Creeping creepy ang dating!
Jo can you give info on the other two episodes? I'll rate BABAE NGAYON AT KAILANMAN along with BOMBA STAR & TEMPTATION ISLAND among the best works of JOEY GOSIENGFIAO.
The man should also explore the horror genre. His imagination is impeccable.
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Betty Gosengfiao? That his sister?
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i don't think they're related Noel... Betty has also done production design work for Bernal in Bakit May Pag-Ibig Pa? also Boy Kodyak.
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Not a lot of Gosengfiaos in this world...
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Gosiengfiao can be serious also, check out those courtroom scenes in his movies not really heavy drama but melodramatic confrontations.
UNDERAGE has one of the best courtroom scenes.
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SILIP is perhaps, Elwood Perez' most bizarre, sensual, bombastic piece of work he has ever done! :o ;D
And the heat and intensity is so strong that you need to take a bath after watching it. ;)
Hayop ang pelikula!
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SILIP is perhaps, Elwood Perez' most bizarre, sensual, bombastic piece of work he has ever done! :o ;D
And the heat and intensity is so strong that you need to take a bath after watching it. ;)
Hayop ang pelikula!
it's funny because critics at the time thought that Elwood has gone serious after the box office & critical success of Till We Meet Again then follows it up with Silip which at the time was lambasted by critics.
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SILIP was laughable to the max. But here, both sexes were treated as prime commodities. Equality exists in this film.
And there's the value of friendship. Where else can you find Ma. Isabel Lopez with no undies at all teaching cathecisms to children? ;D
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SILIP was laughable to the max. But here, both sexes were treated as prime commodities. Equality exists in this film.
And there's the value of friendship. Where else can you find Ma. Isabel Lopez with no undearwear teaching cathecisms to children? ;D
what did you think of Silip's opening scene?
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It was the most shocking, bizarre Elwood has ever done! Was he imitating Brocka for INSIANG? Remeber Jo, the slaughterhouse scene in that Brocka classic.
That's I think his difference to Gosiengfiao, he can push the limits of gore and violence to the max!
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It was the most shocking, bizarre Elwood has ever done! Was he imitating Brocka for INSIANG? Remeber Jo, the slaughterhouse scene in that Brocka classic.
Brocka's slaughterhouse scene in Insiang was integral to Dado's character in the movie while Elwood's was just plain nauseating...
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But that was integral also to the conflict, seen thru the eyes of a young man. And the ending, truly mad sequence in the history of erotic films.
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But that was integral also to the conflict, seen thru the eyes of a young man. And the ending, truly mad sequnce in the history of erotic films.
i don't even think Silip has a plot... it was Ricky Lee's worst script ever! the acting was also disappointing. sarsi Emmanuelle was a big letdown. i always loved her performances even in a mediocre film like Naked Island. WElwood had no idea what the main focus of the story was.
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How could you, Jo? It was a cult classic, man. ;D Sarsi's best performance was in Gallaga's historical drama VIRGIN FOREST.
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How could you, Jo? It was a cult classic, man. ;D
i'm sorry but i really hated the movie... i even surprised myself that i was able to watch the film in it's entirety without walking out of the Manila Film Center...
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But I wonder if it was done by Celso Ad? And yeah, Ricky Lee can do the script even when sleeping.
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But I wonder if it was done by Celso Ad? And yeah, Ricky Lee can do the script even when sleeping.
it probably would've been different, Celso could've done wonders with the film.
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Elwood took the risk in SILIP. But he's no stranger to skin flicks, right? And the Lopez-Emanuelle casting was a deadly combo.
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Elwood took the risk in SILIP. But he's no stranger to skin flicks, right? And the Lopez-Emanuelle casting was a deadly combo.
he's not, but that kind of mileu is not Elwood's cup of tea... it's more of Celso Kid's area of expertise.
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Was SILIP shot also in Paoay, Jo? The location compliment to the atmosphere of the film.
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Was SILIP shot also in Paoay, Jo? The location compliment to the atmosphere of the film.
not quite sure... it just shows na wala talaga akong interest sa movie... ;D
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not quite sure... it just shows na wala talaga akong interest sa movie... ;D
You should watch it again, Jo. It brings out the beast within me. ;) ;D
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You should watch it again, Jo. It brings out the beast within me. ;) ;D
i saw snippets of it... di ko lang talaga matapos-tapos 'yung movie.
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A blast from the past from Gosiengfiao's youth-oriented cult classic UNDERAGE.
http://movies.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/philippinecinemavault/photos/view/d75b?b=1&m=f&o=0
Another one, my all time-fave......BEDSPACERS. ;D
http://movie.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/philippinecinemavault/photos/view/789d?b=41
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The Joey Gosiengfiao Filmography:
Takbo, Vilma Dali! (1972)
Hatinggabi Na, Vilma (1972)
Si Popeye Atbp! (1972)
Lipad! Darna! Lipad! (1973)
La Paloma Ang Kalapating Ligaw (1974)
Sunugin Ang Samar (1974)
May Isang Tsuper Ng Taxi (1974)
Babae... Ngayon At Kailanman (1974)
Lulubog... Lilitaw... Sa Ilalim Ng Tulay (1975)
Ang Boyfriend Kong Baduy (1976)
Huwag Hamakin: Hostess (1977)
Iwasan: Kabaret (1978)
Promo Girl (1978)
Ang Kambal Sa Uma (1979)
Bomba Star (1980)
Iskandalo! (1980)
Nympha (1980)
Katorse (1980)
Underage (1980)
Bedspacers (1980)
Love Affair (1981)
Blue Jeans (1981)
Temptation Island (1981)
Bata Pa Si Sabel (1981)
Bakit Ba Ganyan? (1981)
The Diary Of CG (1981)
Summer Love (1982)
The Story Of Three Loves (1982)
Exploitation (1982)
Mortal Sin (1983)
No Other Love (1984)
14 Going Steady (1984)
Tender Age (1985)
Where Love Has Gone (1985)
When I Fall In Love (1986)
Secrets Of Pura (1988)
The Rape Of Virginia P. (1989)
The Nights Of Serafina (1996)
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Thanks for the filmography, Jojo.
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Joey Gosiengfiao (1941-2007) (http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2007/03/joey-gosiengfiao-1941-2007.html)
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you're welcome Noel!
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Thanks for the list, Jojo. You are the Leonard Maltin of Philippine Cinema. ;D most of the Gosiengfiao flicks that I saw was in the 80's already.
Sinemax on channel 7 every friday used to show Regal flicks. That's where I discovered his movies.
Nice article, Noel.
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you're welcome! i was lucky enough to have seen all those films... he's a great loss to Philippine cinema.
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Six movies in 1980 and 1981? That was quite a rare achievement. And when you watch those films, they are not quickies.
Jessica Zafra's FLIP MOVIE CLUB scheduled before TEMPTATION ISLAND in Greenbelt cinema but didn't materialize.
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could you imagine? 6 films in 1980 & 1981 that was quite a feat!
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Six movies in 1980, six in 1981. Take that, Spielberg!
Is it my imagination or is Gosiengfiao the poor Filipino's Seijun Suzuki?
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Ah yes, Seijun Suzuki of Philippine Cinema! Too bad Joey only did one action, the rest were all drama and youth oriented flicks.
Suzuki's BRANDED TO KILL/TOKYO DRIFTER and GATES OF FLESH vs. Gosiengfiao's SUNUGIN ANG SAMAR and NYMPHA.
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Joey's first film is My Funny Girl, produced by Joy Production in 1970 or 1971, if I'm not mistaken. It stars Tina Revilla, Roger Calvin, Tita Munoz and Sajid Khan. A copy still exists with the film archive of ABS-CBN.
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Silip (Daughters of Eve, Elwood Perez, 1985) (http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/04/silip-1985.html)
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SILIP is the most exploitative piece of cinema Elwood has ever done not to count the other skin flicks that he made.....ALEXANDRA, BEERHOUSE and ISANG GABI TATLONG BABAE. Those three pale in comparison to SILIP.
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(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m132/keating_01/silip.jpg)
Movie ad for Elwood Perez' SILIP. ;D The movie is so bad, although it has shades of a film by Pasolini.
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(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m132/keating_01/Bombastar.jpg)
BOMBA STAR (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1978)
Alma Moreno plays a barrio lass dreaming to be a bold star just like Marissa Delgado. She idolizes her, imitate and even follows her gig. Celia Rodriguez her seamstress mother objects to her ambition to the point of chasing Alma running naked in the rice paddies. The plot thickens when Alma was discovered by photographer Ricky Belmonte to the consternation of his lover played by Eddie Gutierrez who was also the flame of Marissa Delgado. Solid Gosiengfiao camp classic from start to finish! Dexter Doria interviewing Marissa after bagging the Famas awards is so hilarious and can cure even the most depressed person. The smooching scene of Eddie and Ricky Belmonte shot inside the gym can make Jake and Heath Ledger stale and pale in comparison. ;D
BOMBA STAR only confirms the clout of Alma Moreno during her heyday as the true sex goddess of Philippine Cinema. Too bad the master of Philippine camp cinema is no longer around but rest assured he left a filmography that has sense, style and content that can make Andy Warhol proud and smiling.
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Hi, keats--did Eddie and Ricky start kissing inside the gym, and then Marissa Delgado showed up with that long cigarette holder? It's been so long I can't remember anymore...
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They were working out, Joey's mind is so naughty mind you. Where else can you see other guys working out in briefs no less......but Eddie and Ricky tucked in with their shorts, no shirt. Eddie started to stare on Ricky, eyes glued. Ricky responded by teasing him, the kilitian blues started and they both rolled in the floor. That was more explosive than BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN. ;D
No kissing Noel, but the scene shows it all. Then Marissa Delgado showed up, envy, smoking with that long cigarette holder.
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Then I was right, after all. Thanks. I thought I was right, but I don't have a copy and I haven't seen the film in years.
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Cinema One used to show it, Noel. If you can't catch the sked, call Jojo to the rescue. ;)
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I owe Jojo for so much already--Gosengfiao is not nothing, but I have priorities. 'Sokay, i just need to correct my blog post... (http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/2007/03/joey-gosiengfiao-1941-2007.html)
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(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m132/keating_01/stepsisters.jpg)
STEPSISTERS (Elwood Perez, 1979)
The demise of Joey Gosiengfiao solidifies now the status of Elwood Perez as the sole survivor of Phil. Camp Cinema which they monopolized in the 70's. With the exception of Emmanuel Borlaza who did the impressive DARNA AND THE GIANTS without CGI effects mind you, and Danny Cabreira who made the wacky and hilarious ELEKTRIKA KASI EH.
What the f**k is the opening credits?....I thought the movie will be set in the fashion and modelling world with Lorna Tolentino and Rio Locsin posing for a cologne ad! From the petty quarrels during their childhood days, Kristine Garcia as the young LT slapped by the wedding cake during the wedding of their parents by the young Rio to the explosive fight up to the finish, STEPSISTERS is the ultimate Pinoy Revenge Movie. How bad it is? Not really...... a dead cat was served during breakfast, there's plenty of skin exposure in bathing suits by the two protagonists and the extended love scenes 8)......the big fight scenes between the two bombshells will equal the fight scenes in Gosiengfiao's TEMPTATION ISLAND from the swimming pool down to their respective rooms. And there's a twist in the finale! From being a melodrama, you've got to hear the extended version of Rey Valera's hit song TAYONG DALAWA, it turns into a thriller in the end! ;D
Elwood Perez always surprise me, sure he cannot revolutionize electric fans in the desert, his characters often get the most ridiculous perceptions from the villains but STEPSISTERS is a camp masterpiece, Elwood na Elwood. The mansion looks creepy at night, dark, perfect setting for a dysfunctional family where love doesn't rules.
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this was the very first Adults Only movie i ever saw. i remember the endless bickering between Rading Carlos and Rey de la Cruz. the opening credit sequence didn't make sense at all. i cannot forget the doormat that Lorna gave Rio as a birthday present and her sudden rise from poverty with the help of Anita Linda.
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Its super duper camp to the max! For adults, the love scenes are very tame although long and so sexy. Yeah the gift giving of both LT and Rio, I can't forget here the dead cat being served in breakfast by Rio to LT! ;D
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the censors were very strict that time... don't forget the movie also tackled the subject of abortion. the dead cat scene was similar to the one in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane...
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Was Rio illegitimate also? If I would choose between the two bombshells in the movie, I'll be in the camp of Rio.
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in the film she wasn't... Rio proved to be the better actress in the movie. she had more dramatic highlights. it was obvious that Elwood gave her the meatier role. this was her follow up to her highly successful film debut Disgrasyada
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Yeah it's obvious that she was given more dramatic highlights and her revenge scheme to LT was really explosive.
Was that Cocoy Laurel, Rio's main squeeze in the movie?
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Cocoy wasn't in the movie... Rio's boyfriend was played by Joey Fabrergas while Lorna's leading man was Greggy Liwag. Rio's other suitor was Herbert Corpuz.
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Where did they shot the film? The mansion looks creepy at night.
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the masion was owned by the Vera-Perez' on Gilmore Street. it was prominently used in most Sampaguita movies. Lorna's debut scene was at the Vera Perez Gardens which in in the same place.
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It looks familiar nga. What was the significance of the song by Rey Valera? It was out of place for the plot of the movie.
Kristine Garcia looks so bitch as the young LT. ;D
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by the end of the movie the Rey Valera song seemed to make a little more sense don't you think? it just shows where Kristine Garcia's career would go years after Stepsisters...
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Its the ultimate PINOY REVENGE MOVIE. From beginning to end, the fight scenes of the two bombshells are so explosive. ;D
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i wouldn't say ultimate although Stepsisters is definitely up there...
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Jojo can you recall Elwood's ISANG GABI TATLONG BABAE? Regal remade this one right? The one that I saw has Tetchie Agbayani getting nude in the falls. ;D
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i can't really recall the plot to the original... it's been a long time since i last saw it...
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The episode with Tetchie Agbayani is so old already, maybe they shot it in the 80's but I saw the omnibus in the 90's. Regal probably recycled the old film reel and tucked it in with the two other episodes.
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the remake by Regal were movies that they didn't finish. the one with Tetchie was shot immediately after her Playboy pictorial. if you'll notice each of the three episodes didn;t really have a story you can follow since they just excised them from footage they had.
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I thought they followed the original film. Was the Tetchie episode shelved during the 80's? The remake was not really Elwood's solo credit, Mauro Gia Samonte has the Ruffa episode in which she complained because the camera lingers so much on her front. ;D
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i don't think they did... the original had all three episodes connected with each other.
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PAKAWALAN MO AKO (Elwood Perez, 1981)
The tandem of Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon had a string of respectable outputs back in the 80's both are incidentally Bernal flicks RELASYON and BROKEN MARRIAGE. I can only think of PINAY AMERICAN STYLE and IBULONG MO SA DIYOS as the only respectable output under Elwood's guidance. In PAKAWALAN MO AKO the usual dose of hysterical acting put on celluloid was tested again. Vilma forced to take a job as an escort for hire to raise funds for her sick mother played by Mila Ocampo. Completing the love triangle is singer debonair Anthony Castelo who raise to fame in the early 80's. Of course the plot became complicated when Anthony son of rich businessman Subas Herrero falls in love for Vilma. The rich father pinned to death Vilma in the court room scenes, exact replica of some of the best intense moments that you see in those serious Brocka movies. Ed Villapol and Deborah Sun provide the comic relief. Christopher de Leon could have master the act of greatest performance but failed to do so. You can't help but still sympathize with Vilma in the long run.
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THE DIARY OF CRISTINA GASTON (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1981)
"There was once a whore who loved her mother so much!" Tony Carrion blurted out to Alma Moreno. The camp master turns serious. His quintessential muse, chronicles her dreams, ambitions and revenge scheme in a diary given to her by her mother played by Alicia Alonzo. The oppressed lass after ridiculed by Celia Rodriguez in a wake rise from rags to riches peddling her body and becoming one of the high-class call girl. Alma is excellent whether exposing her body and expressing her emotions. Alicia Alonzo always play the suffering mother. Jun Latonio's musical score heightened some of the dramatic highlights of the movie except for some annoying piece. Dez Bautista's production design is lovely to look at especially when you peak inside the mansion of Tony Carrion. Once again the world of prostitutes have been glamorized that can only happen in the movies of Joey Gosiengfiao.
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it's an over the top rags to riches story... although I loved the funeral scene where a grieving Celia Rodriguez throws Alma and Alicia Alonzo out of their mansion.
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THE DIARY OF CG is the first Gosiengfiao flick that I saw back in SineMax on channel 7, 9pm where cable doesn't exist during those times. Where is that mansion located, Jojo? It looks familiar in some Pinoy horror flicks.
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it's somewhere in Quezon... it's been used in most of Elwood's films as well most notably in Till We Meet Again
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Alicia Alonzo is always type cast as the suffering mother. Too bad Alma was never recognized by any award-giving body. She was the first choice for Abaya's BRUTAL, right?
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Alma was nominated a couple of times but never really recognized... she was Marilou's original choice for Brutal and Laurice for Salome...
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I can't wait to see Alma in another Gosiengfiao masterpiece, NYMPHA. Just the sight of her will make your crotch bulge. Wala pang dialogue yan! ;D
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no comment... ;D
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I always tremble whenever I watch that film. Hahaha! ;D
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pansin ko nga... ;D
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Its so full of blistering heat! Joey G. is always at his best when doing collaborations with Toto Belano.
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he did his best works with Toto Belano... he was the quintessential collaborator and Elwood's too!
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(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m132/keating_01/underage.jpg)
Joey Gosiengfiao's cult classic UNDERAGE. Released in 1980 when the original Regal Babies started to make waves. Snooky and Maricel Soriano were repackaged as teen actress. The joy, beauty, magic of youth and loss of innocence captured vividly by Gosiengfiao in this film. Trend-setting that has fantasy, musical and even a court room scene tucked at the end of the movie. Ah, those were the days. I still can't believe that this film merited R-18 rating during its time.
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did you notice that Maricel was the only one wearing a one piece bathing suit? it was stated in her contract that she cannot show a lot of skin since she was only 14 at the time and was primetime TV's first daughter Shirley in John & Marsha...
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I didn't notice it, Jo. She was actually flawless when I saw her in Greenhills during the early 80's. She's more conservative than Snooky in the film? And I can't remember if she wore Mother Lily's magic kamison in any of her Regal flick.
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not that Maricel was conservative... she had an image to protect back then... remember her stint in Kaluskos Musmos? Maricel was sort of the poster girl for teenagers during those times. it wasn't until years later that her movie career reached full maturity in films like Kaya Kong Abutin Ang Langit & Hinugot Sa Langit... i don't remember her wearing the magic kamison although Snooky did in Bata Pa Si Sabel.
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Yeah I watch KALUSKOS MUSMOS during my childhood days. They always show UNDERAGE in Cinema One but my sked can't jibe on it! I always see the court room scene near the finale na. Do you remember the seduction scene of Maricel in this film?
As far as I can remember, every scene in this film are eye-popping visuals! Its like you can frame every sequence. Even the villains look wonderful on screen. Gosiengfiao's eyes and camera are truly one-of-a-kind.
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Wasn't there a full-page poster of Underage with the three in bathing suits? Fueled my adolescent fantasies, I can tell you...
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Yes there was.....Snooky has the loveliest face to grace the silver screen but has no bumper. Dina exudes the epitome of a sex symbol that can give Alma a tough competition during their heyday. Maricel's greatest asset is her skin.
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Nah, my eyes were always on Dina.
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(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m132/keating_01/luluboglilitaw.jpg)
Photo taken from Jojo Devera's blog. It's a miracle bro that you were able to dig this film! ;)
LULUBOG LILITAW SA ILALIM NG TULAY (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1974)
The camp master turns wholesome as the ensemble cast of Amalia Fuentes, Boots Anson-Roa, Chanda Romero, Orestes Ojeda and former child wonder Nino Muhlach met in this hilarious and family entertainment film. Its cool to see Boots Anson Roa as a nun riding in a motorcycle. The SING sequence where the orphans sing together with the nuns popularized by the late Karen Carpenter is a joy to watch and very inspiring that can make Julie Andrews of SOUND OF MUSIC proud! Amalia is the true epitome of a gay woman. Check out the transparent beetle vox of Amalia in this film, imaginative.
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the humor is tongue in cheek Gosiengfiao... loved Amalia's transparent VW beetle... and casting Angge as her maid was genius since it's common knowledge that she's a huge fan of Susan Roces...
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Yeah, couldn't agree more, Jo. Why is it Joey didn't cast Susan Roces instead of Boots Anson Roa? The helicopter sequence is a marvel to watch on screen.
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Susan Roces in a Gosiengfiao movie? that woud've been great but Joey favors Amalia, even during his Regal days, he would always cast Amalia in his films...
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The movie looks like a Bernal comedy flick. I told you, Gosiengfiao is the alter ego of Bernal, while Perez is for Brocka. :D
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Jojo what movie did Joey used GIVE ME A CHANCE by Ric Segretto as one of the theme song in the movie?
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i just uploaded a scene from Joey Gosiengfiao's Bomba Star...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5S4wMmpvqU
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i just uploaded a scene from Joey Gosiengfiao's Bomba Star...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5S4wMmpvqU
Jojo,
That was classic. Anong masasabi ni Almodovar? Thank you for uploading the scenes from that movie.
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Another Gosiengfiao masterpiece BEDSPACERS is included on this year's Cinema One festival at Sm Megamall. Set on college campus with sex bombshells Alma Moreno and Rio Locsin.
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Check sked at cinemaone.tv
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La Paloma is fun. It's preceded by a nice tribute to the guy (with several interviews: Elwood Perez, Lav Diaz, Jeffrey Jeturian, Albert Martinez, etc.)
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LA PALOMA with Celia Rodriguez and Orestes Ojeda is the last black and white Filipino film.
I hope Dina Bonnevie will show up for the Saturday screening of TEMPTATION ISLAND.
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Jojo,
That was classic. Anong masasabi ni Almodovar? Thank you for uploading the scenes from that movie.
anytime Nino... wala talagang sinabi si Almodovar.
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Jojo can you upload the scene where Rio was serving breakfast to LT in Elwood Perez' STEPSISTERS? ;D
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Bedspacers (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1980) (http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/08/bedspacers-1980.html)
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Nice review, oggs. What separates BEDSPACERS from BLUE JEANS was its adult theme and more universal approach.
Wait till you see Gosiengfiao's NYMPHA. Punong-puno ng libog ang pelikula but its definitely not porn. The most daring work of the camp master.
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British firm buys ‘Silip’
Remastered ’80s film to be released on DVD in US
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Inquirer
Last updated 00:46am (Mla time) 12/17/2006
Published on page I1 of the December 17, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
“SILIP,” A 1986 FILM DIRECTED BY ELWOOD Perez, was bought by the British firm Boum Productions, to be released under the Mondo Macabro DVD imprint abroad.
The news was confirmed by Pete Tombs of Boum/Mondo Macabro, Perez and producer Wilson Tieng of Viking Films International.
“Silip” was top-billed by Sarsi Emmanuel and Maria Isabel Lopez and written by Ricky Lee.
Tieng and Perez told Inquirer Entertainment in separate interviews that “Silip” had its premiere at the 21st Chicago International Film Festival before it started its local run on the eve of the February 1986 Edsa Revolution.
“I sold ‘Silip’ to different countries in the mid-1980s,” Tieng related.
Over a decade later, British film critic Tombs’ said his interest in the Filipino film was sparked.
“I first came across it about 10 years ago, through a review written by [fellow UK] critic Tony Rayns in Sight and Sound [magazine],” Tombs recalled.
He said he had become “fascinated” with the idea that, even during the Marcos era, Filipino filmmakers succeeded in making films that “pushed boundaries.”
“It was a belated new wave,” Tombs told the Inquirer in an e-mail interview.
By sheer happenstance, he stumbled on an old VHS cassette of a Filipino film titled “Deflorazione” or “Flowers of Virginity” in a bargain bin in Rome, Italy.
“I recognized the cast as being that of ‘Silip.’ It was dubbed in Italian and was severely cut (25 minutes was missing). But I got the distinct impression as I watched that it was an unheralded minor classic.”
With dispatch, he embarked on a hunting expedition. “I asked everyone about it, but no one had seen the film or even heard of it.”
A year after finding the VHS tape in Rome, Tombs chanced upon a director’s cut of the film on video (dubbed in English and subtitled in Greek) on eBay where it was bought by a friend for $150.
“I was simply amazed and soon after I contacted [Tieng, who’s now with] Solar Films and began the process of licensing the title from [him] for a new DVD release in the United States,” he recounted.
Tombs wrote the book “Mondo Macabro” which, according to his e-mail, was “later commissioned as a TV series by Channel 4 in the UK.”
“As part of the research for the TV program, I visited the Philippines and interviewed [filmmakers] Eddie Romero, Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes, Don Escudero and [actress] Manilyn Reynes,” he pointed out.
Movie classics
He had previously seen “acknowledged classics” like Lino Brocka’s “Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag” and Ishmael Bernal’s “City by Night.” “At the other end of the spectrum, I’ve also seen more outrageous examples of popular cinema, including the ‘Darna’ series, ‘Zuma’ and [pint-sized spy] Weng-Weng movies.”
Needless to say, he is quite acquainted with Philippine cinema.
In his e-mail, Tombs described “Silip” as “beautiful … visually.”
“[It] deals with primal issues: desire and repression; love and death; freedom and conformity; the dreams of youth versus the compromises of old age. These are subjects that have been dealt with before in cinema (in the Philippines, in ‘Karnal’), but here the conflicts are raw and the violence that results … savage and unfettered,” he explained.
In an interview with the Inquirer, Perez called his work, a “film on religious misdirection.”
Tombs insisted that, 20 years later, there is “still an audience for ‘Silip.’ There are always people who are looking for something new and different. There are plenty of films with much worse violence in them. [But] what ‘Silip’ has is passion and commitment … It’s an original.”
Tombs reported that the plan is to “release the film on DVD sometime in 2007.”
He is currently working on “remastering the film from the original negative to get the best possible version. We want to restore the original widescreen framing and correct the color timing. It’s important that the film looks good.”
He relayed that his company is also planning to release “another uncompromising film [of the same period], Celso Ad. Castillo’s ‘Snake Sisters,’ later in 2007
“If these releases go as planned, we certainly hope to license other Filipino films, including some more recent productions,” he affirmed.
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La Paloma (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1974) (http://oggsmoggs.blogspot.com/2007/08/la-paloma-ang-kalapating-ligaw-1974.html)
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NYMPHA was cancelled for tomorrow's screening at Sm Megamall Cinema. The R-18 rating can't fit into Sm Megamall's policy. Dina Bonnevie's signature film KATORSE will fill in the gap.
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Mother Lily Monteverde on the late Joey Gosiengfiao:
"He was a brilliant director,”
Monteverde candidly remarked that her relationship with Gosiengfiao was “love-hate.”
“We used to fight a lot,” Monteverde said. “He had lots of ideas and he had his own mind. Very assertive. He was ahead of his time. When he made ‘Temptation Island,’ people thought he was crazy. It is only now that people started appreciating his works.”
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What do you guys think of Elwood's more recent films, Lupe the seaman's wife and She walks by Night? I thought they were both awful but She walks by night has echoes of his previous work.
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This is one film that I terribly missed! Tangna! Bring back the Golden Years of Philippine Cinema! Next on my quest......find the ad of ELEKTRIKA KASI EH & SUPERGIRL. ;D
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I definitely remember very perky, somewhat dark (not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm the United Nations when it comes to pigmentation) nipples in Bilanggong Birhen, the sacrifice scene. Could be a stunt double, though.
**** Actually may takip ang nipples ni Alma sa eksena na nag sasayaw sya sa beer house, may kopya ako ng movie na ito at ganoon din sa Bomba Star may takip din ang nipples ni Alma petals yata ang tawag sa cover na yon**********
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Passages
A day after his sixty-sixth birthday, a director named Joey Gosiengfiao succumbed to his sixth heart attack.
He died alone. Throughout the hours between his cardiac arrest and the time he expelled his last breath, only his assistant was with him at the Intensive Care Unit of the Quirino Medical Center.
Not a single one of his friends, peers and the ordinary men and women he was instrumental into transforming into celestial bodies in the parody of a heavenly world was at his side. Joey Gosiengfiao died at 3 am ... and not even twelve hours later, his body was cremated, consecrated in a quiet Mass and was relegated to an urn for eternal anonymity.
Barely anyone remembers Joey Gosiengfiao ... except in reference to his most popular films, the campy ones that have practically become iconic in terms of their significance to the culture of movies in the seventies. Those were the years. Yes, those were the years when he and Elwood Perez lorded over the movie industry, churning out hit after hit in what was then the reign of Regal Films and the domination of the so-called Regal Babies. He, together with Elwood, were the demigods of popular filmmaking. That was when each weekend there were at least two new Filipino movies opening in theaters and a wide variety of works were readily available for the spectrum of audience interest.
There was Brocka and Bernal ... and Gosiengfiao and Perez. No concise and valid appreciation of popular culture studies in this country can be complete without the inclusion of Gosiengfiao's name regardless of how the cinema scholar may deem the value of his works. Yes, TEMPTATION ISLAND or KATORSE may not make it a critic's list of the most important works to shape Filipino cinema in the latter part of the twentieth century... but there is no way of denying that these supposedly tacky works of pure popcorn value are as important in determining the mindset and taste of an era long forgotten together with padded shoulders, tsunami hairdos and dark blue eyeshadows. Define art any which way one prefers --- but the popular movies are as significant in creating benchmarks of the evolution of public intellect.
Luciano B Carlos or "Tatay Chaning" may have shaped popular comedy ... but Gosiengfiao and Perez defined the etymology of popular films in the seventies. Thse opened doors for the some of the most revered actors today when they started out as teeners with far greater talent than the pre-fabricated tween performers who populate our boob tubes and widescreens.
Little is known about Joey Gosiengfiao's contributions to the birth of real alternative cinema. When Regal Films indulged in the production of the "pito-pito"
films, condescending comments and demeaning observations were hurled against these quickie films churned out by the studio, usually opening and closing on the same day in moviehouses. But if it were not for Gosiengfiao who supervised the production of the pito-pitos, there would have been no KRIMINAL NG BARYO CONCEPCION or SANA PAG-IBIG NA. There would have been no PILA-BALDE or HUBAD SA ILALIM NG BUWAN. There would have been no Lav Diaz or Jeffrey Jeturian.
Gosiengfiao, together with the incorrigible Mother Lily, opened the doors for a number of the major filmmakers today. It was he who watched over my first films in Regal ... providing perspective in the principal photography and production of my initial works critical during my transition as writer to megman. Together with Douglas Quijano, Joey Gosiengfiao saw to it that the films were delivered in a manner that could be sold to the public while never overstepping his respect for the creativity of a potential peer.
His failing health took him away from active film work for the past few years. And like all of us who are mere pawns to the machinery of a system that demands popularity and visibility, he slowly faded into the background, relegated to the seemingly insignificant and out of use. His final years were painful in more ways than one ... because the latter part of his existence personified the thanklessness of this career we have all chosen to give our lives and energies. The once powerful and revered director was scrounging for work and was not given his due respect ... because he could no longer deliver.
No, it is not a matter of finances alone but the respect that is due to someone who paved way for generations of filmmakers to find their distinct place and voice in the hierarchy of things. While the mavericks of today are so determined to completely destroy and redefine Philippine cinema with their bravery and originality they fail to recognize that every breakthrough requires the reinvention of a paradigm ... and this paradigm is the tradition established by those who came ahead of them. Any struggle for redirection can only take place if those seeking new frontiers recognize who built the roads on which they travel.
Joey Gosiengfiao died alone. There was little ceremony ... perhaps even little tears shed for his demise. His works will never be placed side by side in the bastion of the film greats. But he was there ... and in so many ways, he is still here. For what we now understand as popular and commercial filmmaking owed a lot to what he did as a director and a producer.
Not recognizing this all too simple yet oh so important notion makes his death even all the more painful.
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This is one film that I terribly missed! Tangna! Bring back the Golden Years of Philippine Cinema! Next on my quest......find the ad of ELEKTRIKA KASI EH & SUPERGIRL. ;D
Hey how about the Ariel ureta superman trilogy
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Ey, keats, who wrote that tribute to Gosiengfiao and why don't they mention Ad. Castillo, O'Hara, de Leon?
It's pretty good, actually, is why I might want to at least quote it.
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Noel it was Joey Reyes tribute to the late Joey Gosiengfiao. Yeah excellent and nice piece to honor the camp master.
Too bad I only stumbled on it late already. But Gosiengfiao's films and legacy lives on forever despite he didn't earn respect from the critics or the Manunuris.
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Hey FLIM, here's the ad of ZOOM ZOOM SUPERMAN. Sad but true, Ariel Ureta is looking for a copy of this film also Elwood Perez.
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Where the hell did you find that?
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Got it from the blog of Video 48, FLIM.
I remember Boots Anson Roa in one of the wacky episodes in ZOOM ZOOM SUPERMAN as the balut vendor who sells Ariel Ureta Superman's paraphernalia and Celia Rodriguez as the Spiderwoman.
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STARS CONVERGE
The Stellar Art and Career of Elwood Perez
February 25-27, 2008
UP Film Institute
Feb 25 Monday-2 pm
NAKAWIN NATIN ANG BAWAT SANDALI (Sampaguita-VP Pictures, 1978)
A young couple's affair is marred by their feuding families and small-town intrigues. They meet years after as successful career people only to be drawn into another scandalous liaison.
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Orlando Nadres. Cinematography: Gener Buenaseda.
Cast: Vilma Santos, Christopher de Leon, Baby Delgado
5 pm
TILL WE MEET AGAIN (Regal Films, 1985)
The majordoma's daughter in a rich household falls hopelessly in love with the family scion. Philippine Cinema's legendary loveteam is revived in this tremendous box-office hit!
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Jose Javier Reyes, National Artist Rolando Tinio. Cinematography: Ricardo Jacinto
Cast: Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Dina Bonnevie, Edu Manzano, Armida Siguion-Reyna, Perla Bautista
7:30 pm
I CAN'T STOP LOVING YOU (Regal Films, 1985)
A singing star's success causes her break-up with a childhood sweetheart. It would be too late for her to recover their lost love.
Official Selection- 1985 Metro Manila Film Festival
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Jose Javier Reyes, Ishko Lopez. Cinematography: Ricardo Jacinto. Cast: Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Rowell Santiago, Jackie Lou Blanco, Lani Mercado, Miguel Rodriguez, Nadia Montenegro, Richard Gomez
Feb 26- Tuesday 2pm
IBULONG MO SA DIYOS (Regal Films, 1988)
A down-on-her-luck ex-japayuki suffers indignities in the hands of the man she loves until a faithful suitor comes along.
Winner of 8 Major Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematpgraphy, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Song, Best Actress for Vilma Santos, Best Supporting Actor for Miguel Rodriguez- 1989 Famas.
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Orlando Nadres. Cinematography:Ricardo Jacinto. Cast: Vilma Santos, Gary Valenciano, Miguel Rodriguez, Eric Quizon, Nida Blanca.
5 pm
MASARAP, MASAKIT ANG UMIBIG (Sampaguita Pictures 40th Anniv. Presentation, 1977)
A wealthy couple's sacrificing adopted son and wayward biological son vie for the love of the same woman.
Official Selection: 1981 ASEAN Film Festival, Sydney. Official Selection 1978 Asia-Pacific Film Festival, Taipei. Winner of Best Supporting Actor for Mat Ranillo III, 1978 FAMAS.
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Orlando Nadres. Cinematography: Gener Buenaseda. Cast: Vilma Santos, Christopher de Leon, Mat Ranillo III, Anita Linda, Amado Cortez.
***Screening to be preceded by program in honor of Elwood Perez in attendance with distinguished guests.
7:30 pm
BILANGIN ANG BITUIN SA LANGIT (Regal Films, 1989)
A determined barrio lass grows up as a powerful woman who succeeds in acquiring the wealth of the proud man she appears to loathe and at the same time love since childhood. Winner of over 20 awards and distinctions including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Music, Best Production Design, Best Actor for Tirso Cruz III, Best Actress for Nora Aunor from various local award-giving bodies- FAMAS, FAP, PMPC, URIAN.
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Jake Cocadiz, Jigz recto. Cinematography:Ricardo Jacinto. Cast: Nora Aunor, Tirso Cruz III, Miguel Rodriguez, Gloria Romero, Perla Bautista, Ana Margarita Gonzalez.
Feb 27- Wednesday
2 pm
ISANG GABI, TATLONG BABAE (Juan dela Cruz Productions, 1974)
The three-part social drama unravels chronicles of an upper-class stepmother falling in love with her stepson, a lady of the slums torn between her bastard son and her good-for-nothing lover, and a social climbing fashion model belittling her adoptive parent. The film sealed Elwood Perez' reputation as a foremost serious film director as it merited front-page yearend review in a leading national daily proclaiming it one of the year's three best films.
Nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for Amalia Fuentes, Boots Anson-Roa, Pilar Pilapil, other citations from Catholic Mass Media Awards.
Direction: Elwood Perez, Screenplay: Wilfrido Nolledo, Orlando Nadres, Joey Gosiengfiao, Douglas Quijano. Cinematography: Rudy Dino, Rey de Leon. Cast: Amalia Fuentes, Boots Anson-Roa, Pilar Pilapil, Luis Gonzales, Ricky Belmonte, Orestes Ojeda, Marissa Delgado, Mona Liza, Ray Marcos.
5 pm
PAKAWALAN MO AKO (MVP Pictures, 1981)
An escort service girl is junked by her fiance upon the revelation of her profession kept secret from the man. Winner of Best Actress for Vilma Santos. Nominations in major categories including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Story, Best Screenplay, Best Actor for Christopher de Leon, Best Supporting Actor for Anthony Castelo, Best Supporting Actress for Deborah Sun-1982 FAMAS.
Direction: Elwood Perez, Screenplay: Pete Lacaba, Mauro Gia Samonte, Ishko Lopez. Cinematography: Gener Buenaseda. Cast: Vilma Santos, Christopher de Leon, Anthony Castelo, Deborah Sun, Mila Ocampo.
7:30 pm
ANG TOTONG BUHAY NI PACITA M (MRN Films, 1991)
A bawdy two-bit singer in a cheap pub is shattered when her teenage daughter the only one true love of her life is hit by a stray bullet.
Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Story, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Music, Best Actress for Nora Aunor-1991 MMFF, more distinctions from all local award giving bodies including FAMAS, FAP, PMPC, URIAN, YOUNG CRITICS CIRCLE. Official Selection in Main Competition for Silver Screen Awards 1992 Singapore Intl. Film Festival. Official Selection 1992 Toronto IFF/Hawaii IFF/India IFF, New Delhi. Southeast Asian Film Festival, Amsterdam.
Direction: Elwood Perez. Screenplay: Ricardo Lee. Cinematography: Ricardo Jacinto. Cast: Nora Aunor, Lotlot de Leon, Armida Siguion-Reyna.
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You're invited to the beachside screening of the iconic film by the camp master Joey Gosiengfiao. Cinema One presents TEMPTATION ISLAND beachside screening and party in Boracay, April 18, 2008, Beachcomber, Boracay Island.
Plus
Games
Celebrity Guests
70's Themed Party
with DJ Mars Miranda
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I was watching Nights of Serafina and I thought the old woman there looked familiar. Is that the same woman who appeared as the villain in La Paloma?
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Poster ad of the cult classic BLUE JEANS. Apo's second gig after playing the singing narrators in SI POPEYE ATBP. ;D
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ETERNAL MASTER OF PINOY CAMP
Joey Gosiengfiao was planning his directorial comeback
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines – Cinema was the most enduring passion of director Joey Gosiengfiao, who succumbed to a heart attack, his sixth, on Friday - a day after his 66th birthday.
Inquirer Entertainment witnessed Gosiengfiao rummaging through movie queen Amalia Fuentes’ DVD collection, borrowing several titles - all Hollywood classics - last October.
“He loved watching movies,” recalled Regal Films’ Lily Monteverde, who produced Gosiengfiao’s biggest hits: “Temptation Island,” “Underage,” and “Katorse.”
“He grew up in a moviehouse,” fellow director Elwood Perez remembered. “He was from a prominent clan of lawyers in Tuguegarao. An uncle owned a theater, where Joey played behind the telon (screen).”
Perez said he met Gosiengfiao when they were students at the University of the East. “He confided that his life was like the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie,” Perez recounted. “His mom Maria was pure Japanese and looked like Lana Turner. She was erudite and genteel. Their house was filled with books. I used to borrow books by Sartre and Kafka from their library.”
He would forever remember Gosiengfiao as “a bohemian in a turtleneck, a cigarette dangling from his lips, like French actress Jeanne Moreau,” Perez said.
From school plays, they jumped to TV, as directors on the drama series “Balintataw.” When the movies beckoned, they made the big leap together.
After working as co-directors in “Lipad, Darna, Lipad” in 1973, Perez’s family produced Gosiengfiao’s solo film, “La Paloma,” in 1974. It top-billed Mona Lisa, Celia Rodriguez and Vina Casino.
“La Paloma” is one of the films featured in the Gosiengfiao retrospective, currently running on Cinema One, ABS-CBN’s Filipino movie channel on cable.
“We got a 16mm black-and-white copy from Direk Joey,” said Cinema One’s Ronald Arguelles. “We planned to hold a big screening event, to raise funds for his medical needs.”
Last time Arguelles saw Gosiengfiao was on March 6, during a taping of an interview for the retrospective. “In that interview, he mentioned that his favorite movie was ‘Bedspacers’ because it was based on his student life,” Arguelles said.
“He should be remembered for his support of young filmmakers,” Perez asserted. Gosiengfiao was supervising producer for Good Harvest, a subsidiary of Regal which produced the so-called pito-pito movies (low budget, shot in seven days and processed in seven more) by independent filmmakers Lav Diaz, Rico Ilarde and Jeffrey Jeturian in the late 1990s.
“In a way, pito-pito movies were the precursor of today’s digital movies,” Jeturian said. “Budget was limited, but we had a free hand.”
“That was an exciting and highly creative period,” Ilarde said. “With a budget of P2 to P4 million, Good Harvest produced gems.”
Jeturian related: “Two months ago, Direk Joey called, asking me to recommend a scriptwriter because he was planning his directorial comeback.”
According to Arguelles, Gosiengfiao’s last full-length film was “Nights of Serafina” in 1996.
Jeturian reported: “Direk Joey wanted a writer who understood his humor. I suggested Chris Martinez, who directed the stage version of ‘Temptation Island’ at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003.”
On its last night, Gosiengfiao watched ‘Temptation Island’ at the CCP with his stars Azenith Briones and Dina Bonnevie, according to Martinez. “At curtain call, I gave him my bouquet of flowers.”
Serafina parties
Martinez recalled that his UP theater friends had mounted “Nights of Serafina” parties in their younger years. “We would rent a VHS copy of ‘Serafina’ from ACA Video and laugh all night.” Later on, they threw ‘Temptation Island’ parties. “All my friends knew that movieís lines by heart. [Comic] John Lapus produced the stage version. He had the script transcribed from a videotape copy.”
Diaz hailed Joey as an “eternal master of Pinoy camp.”
Bonnevie insisted that no one could rival Gosiengfiao when it came to witty lines and wacky ideas. “One line has stuck in my mind: ‘Once a waiter; always a waiter.’ For ‘Temptation,’ he had a giant ice cream cone and fried chicken in the middle of a desert!”
Gosiengfiao was also her guardian, she said. “I was only 17, and my dad entrusted me to him. He rushed me to the hospital when I was [sick, and] when I fought with [my boyfriend and co-star] Alfie Anido, he acted as mediator.”
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nakaka-miss si joey g. sana regal would release all his films on dvd. the campier, the better hehe. glad to have bought a copy of temptation island, even on vcd. :)
ETERNAL MASTER OF PINOY CAMP
Joey Gosiengfiao was planning his directorial comeback
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Inquirer
MANILA, Philippines – Cinema was the most enduring passion of director Joey Gosiengfiao, who succumbed to a heart attack, his sixth, on Friday - a day after his 66th birthday.
Inquirer Entertainment witnessed Gosiengfiao rummaging through movie queen Amalia Fuentes’ DVD collection, borrowing several titles - all Hollywood classics - last October.
“He loved watching movies,” recalled Regal Films’ Lily Monteverde, who produced Gosiengfiao’s biggest hits: “Temptation Island,” “Underage,” and “Katorse.”
“He grew up in a moviehouse,” fellow director Elwood Perez remembered. “He was from a prominent clan of lawyers in Tuguegarao. An uncle owned a theater, where Joey played behind the telon (screen).”
Perez said he met Gosiengfiao when they were students at the University of the East. “He confided that his life was like the Tennessee Williams play The Glass Menagerie,” Perez recounted. “His mom Maria was pure Japanese and looked like Lana Turner. She was erudite and genteel. Their house was filled with books. I used to borrow books by Sartre and Kafka from their library.”
He would forever remember Gosiengfiao as “a bohemian in a turtleneck, a cigarette dangling from his lips, like French actress Jeanne Moreau,” Perez said.
From school plays, they jumped to TV, as directors on the drama series “Balintataw.” When the movies beckoned, they made the big leap together.
After working as co-directors in “Lipad, Darna, Lipad” in 1973, Perez’s family produced Gosiengfiao’s solo film, “La Paloma,” in 1974. It top-billed Mona Lisa, Celia Rodriguez and Vina Casino.
“La Paloma” is one of the films featured in the Gosiengfiao retrospective, currently running on Cinema One, ABS-CBN’s Filipino movie channel on cable.
“We got a 16mm black-and-white copy from Direk Joey,” said Cinema One’s Ronald Arguelles. “We planned to hold a big screening event, to raise funds for his medical needs.”
Last time Arguelles saw Gosiengfiao was on March 6, during a taping of an interview for the retrospective. “In that interview, he mentioned that his favorite movie was ‘Bedspacers’ because it was based on his student life,” Arguelles said.
“He should be remembered for his support of young filmmakers,” Perez asserted. Gosiengfiao was supervising producer for Good Harvest, a subsidiary of Regal which produced the so-called pito-pito movies (low budget, shot in seven days and processed in seven more) by independent filmmakers Lav Diaz, Rico Ilarde and Jeffrey Jeturian in the late 1990s.
“In a way, pito-pito movies were the precursor of today’s digital movies,” Jeturian said. “Budget was limited, but we had a free hand.”
“That was an exciting and highly creative period,” Ilarde said. “With a budget of P2 to P4 million, Good Harvest produced gems.”
Jeturian related: “Two months ago, Direk Joey called, asking me to recommend a scriptwriter because he was planning his directorial comeback.”
According to Arguelles, Gosiengfiao’s last full-length film was “Nights of Serafina” in 1996.
Jeturian reported: “Direk Joey wanted a writer who understood his humor. I suggested Chris Martinez, who directed the stage version of ‘Temptation Island’ at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in 2003.”
On its last night, Gosiengfiao watched ‘Temptation Island’ at the CCP with his stars Azenith Briones and Dina Bonnevie, according to Martinez. “At curtain call, I gave him my bouquet of flowers.”
Serafina parties
Martinez recalled that his UP theater friends had mounted “Nights of Serafina” parties in their younger years. “We would rent a VHS copy of ‘Serafina’ from ACA Video and laugh all night.” Later on, they threw ‘Temptation Island’ parties. “All my friends knew that movieís lines by heart. [Comic] John Lapus produced the stage version. He had the script transcribed from a videotape copy.”
Diaz hailed Joey as an “eternal master of Pinoy camp.”
Bonnevie insisted that no one could rival Gosiengfiao when it came to witty lines and wacky ideas. “One line has stuck in my mind: ‘Once a waiter; always a waiter.’ For ‘Temptation,’ he had a giant ice cream cone and fried chicken in the middle of a desert!”
Gosiengfiao was also her guardian, she said. “I was only 17, and my dad entrusted me to him. He rushed me to the hospital when I was [sick, and] when I fought with [my boyfriend and co-star] Alfie Anido, he acted as mediator.”
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Cinema One just aired this morning the omnibus camp classic MAY ISANG TSUPER NG TAXI megged by Gosiengfiao, Perez and Luciano B. Carlos from Juan dela Cruz Prods.
The brilliant Celia Rodriguez, a Gosiengfiao veteran stars in one of the episodes as a spouse who retaliated on her cheating husband. The taxi driver is played by Orestes Ojeda.
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1974 Expressweek article on Joey Gosiengfiao is posted in Pelikula ATBP blog. Here is the link:
http://pelikulaatbp.blogspot.com/2009/01/joey-gosiengfiao.html
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Joey Gosiengfiao's 14 GOING STEADY reviewed on http://sari-saringsinengpinoy.blogspot.com/
one of my generation's favorite...... ;D Just the opening sequence alone, the camp master got the milieu right!
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Stills from ZOOM ZOOM SUPERMAN. Many thanks to James DR of Pelikula, Atbp, blog. If you haven't seen this film during the 70's you missed 1/2 of your life! :D
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Ariel Ureta flying around the metropolis.
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Celia Rodriguez as Babaing Gagamba.
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Rita Gomez as the mad scientist who unfolds the homicidal SpiderWoman played by Celia Rodriguez. Yes folks, DC and Marvel characters co-existed in one film which can only happened in this trilogy made by Ishmael Bernal, Joey Gosiengfiao and Elwood Perez.
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Rosanna Ortiz terrorize you again as the 100 year old witch!
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Gina Alajar as the 12 year old witch.
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Gina Pareno as Cheetah.
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One of the camp master's favorite films......Joey Gosiengfiao's BEDSPACERS will be shown this Thursday at 3pm on Rewind at Cinema One.
Based on his college life with Alma Moreno, Rio Locsin & Amy Austria.
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NYMPHA (Joey Gosiengfiao, 1980)
Burden with a traumatic childhood past, the body of Nympha Monteverde played to perfection by Gosiengfiao muse Alma Moreno, was found in the mountains after she escaped from the convent and had mass sex by dozen campers. The rescue operations led by Ella Luansing the nun, a brilliant thespian. Alma was gang-bang with her consent landed on the hospital after the rescue operations with raptured vagina but the doctor tells it will heal. ;D That childhood past resulted to a different kind of sickness, not promiscuity but nymphomania where she just shake and perspires whenever she sees a man. In his most daring and perverse work tucked in his filmography, MTRCB Chairman Laguardia slapped the film with an X rating at the Cinema One film fest 3 years ago.....the camp master created a world not only infuse with camp, black humor and wicked thoughts that combines Almodovar & Bunuel in one. And for pure laughs check out or spot the influence from Hitchcock's VERTIGO & GONE WITH THE WIND. Rosemarie Gil as the stepmother was at her usual elan flair and almost eclipsed Alma and had a tryst with Ricky Belmonte. The Gosiengfiao veterans Deborah Sun in a restrained performance, Orestes Ojeda, Ed Villapol, Sandy Garcia and the late Alfie Anido were at their usual best. With all the sexual innuendos thrown in, this camp opus should not be confused with Castillo's NYMPHA released during the 70's. But it was still Alma Moreno that stood out, the body and face that could launched a thousand ships. With classic lines that can make Andy Warhol proud.....kung masakit ang daliri ko, puede ko putulin, paano ko puputulin ito? Alma cries! Baka tuhugin mo lahat ng muchacho dito, his father shipping magnate Johnny Wilson shout to Alma! Alma makes a dramatic entrance to a party thrown by her stepmother, Rosemarie Gil....."kumusta ka na hija? Nympha shouts with proud....eto, stepmother, ni-rape ng sandaang lalake! Hind lang apoy ang nilalamon ko kundi laman....Alma tells carnival fire-eater Alfie Anido. In order to avoid spoilers, will Alma be cured of her sickness, be a normal woman and have a family in the future? Catch this Gosiengfiao opus on the archive of Cinema One.
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***CAMP GOSIENGFIAO: The World According To Joey G.,The Master of Pinoy Camp -
In celebration of Joey Gosiengfiao's 2nd death anniversary (March 15, 1941-March 16, 2007)***
July 13-18, Monday to Saturday
Screenings start at 5:30 pm
Mag:Net Cafe Katipunan (beside Rustan's Supermarket, in front of Miriam College)
Tel # 929.3191
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July 13 Mon: DIARY OF CRISTINA GASTON (1982): Joey Gosiengfiao
July 14 Tue: BLUE JEANS (1981): Joey Gosiengfiao
July 15 Wed: BATA PA SI SABEL (1981): Joey Gosiengfiao
July 16 Thu: KATORSE (1980): Joey Gosiengfiao
July 17 Fri: BOMBA STAR (1980): Joey Gosiengfiao
July 18 Sat: TEMPTATION ISLAND (1980): Joey Gosiengfiao
***July 17 Fri, 9pm: CAMP GOSIENGFIAO NIGHT
Featuring the best camp-rock bands this side of the barracks***
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anytime Nino... wala talagang sinabi si Almodovar.
Jojo was it the sanitize version Cinema One was airing lately regarding NYMPHA? I noticed that everytime the word MONTEVERDE was spoken by the cast, it was deleted.
Was Mother offended by the film? Could it be the copy that was suppose to be shown at Cinema One fest when they paid tribute to Gosiengfiao at Sm Megamall 4 years ago that was slapped by an X rating by the MTRCB?
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No... as a matter of fact it's the complete version of Nympha. The only thing is that the censors thought that Monteverde was used in bad taste since Regal is owned by Lily and Remy Monteverde. Nympha still remains to be Alma Moreno's boldest film role ever.
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I concur with you...its Alma's most daring role ever. That opening rescue operation scene was such a stunner!
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Actress Deborah Sun gets her second wind
By Gerry Plaza
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:52:00 07/23/2009
MANILA, Philippines—From 1971-81, a young actress named Deborah Sun set movie screens on fire with her sizzling portrayals of alluring characters in Elwood Perez’s “Diborsyada,” Joey Gosiengfiao’s “Nympha” and Mel Chionglo’s “Playgirl,” among other flicks labeled under the bold genre.
Though she then had the looks, figure and persona of a femme fatale, Deborah now confesses that she was nothing more than a reluctant newcomer who disliked the limelight. It took intense prodding before the aspiring flight stewardess was launched in “Bedspacer” opposite Mark Gil.
“I didn’t even know my name was changed to Deborah Sun,” she tells the Inquirer. “I only learned about it in the newspapers.”
A member of a prominent show biz clan, Deborah was born Jean Louise Salvador—Gigi to close friends—a daughter of director Leroy Salvador and Corazon Porcuna.
“It was Douglas Quijano who thought of Deborah,” she recalls. “Mother Lily (Monteverde) then added Sun.”
‘Temptation Island’
“Bedspacer” was a hit, which prompted Gosiengfiao to cast Deborah in “Temptation Island.” Released in 1980, the film became a favorite of critics and went on to enjoy a reputation as a “cult classic” and a prime example of “Pinoy camp”—whose master was Gosiengfiao.
Deborah was the only non-beauty titlist in the cast, which included Azenith Briones, Jennifer Cortez, Bambi Arambulo and Dina Bonnevie. The story revolved around contestants in a beauty pageant stranded in a desert island without food, water and shelter.
Playing an oppressed domestic helper, Deborah says shooting the film in a beach in Paoay, Ilocos Norte was the opposite of the “paradise” that the movie was trying to project.
“Everyone in the cast slept in one room,” she recounts. “We had no means of communication with our families.”
But the worst thing that made the whole experience seem like “hell” was the scorching heat they had to endure. It was so hot, Deborah remembers, “that the lead stars ended up quarreling.”
She couldn’t forget Alfie (Anido) and Dina (Bonnevie)—who were a couple at that time—fighting on the set. “Alfie had his arm locked on Dina’s neck and she asked for my help,” Deborah says. “That was hilarious. Jennifer, Bambi, Azenith and I also quarreled at times, but despite everything, we had a great time.”
Deborah adds that it was also during the shoot of “Temptation Island” when she first met a dashing new actor named Gabby Concepcion. “He was not part of the cast ... he was just there to observe,” Deborah explains. “I wanted him to feel comfortable ... I told him, ‘Hi handsome, don’t be shy, join us.”
Gabby’s first magazine pictorial was with her as partner, says Deborah.
The impression she made in “Temptation Island” led Regal, Deborah’s home studio, to line up several projects for her, including a key role in “Underage” — the film that advanced the careers of Dina, Maricel Soriano and Snooky Serna. In the starring role was Deborah, with Gabby.
Famas nomination
Deborah says her peak year was in 1982, when she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at the Famas Awards for Elwood Perez’s “Pakawalan Mo Ako,” where she appeared with Vilma Santos and Christopher de Leon.
She lost to Chanda Romero (“Karma”).
More projects followed: “Adultery (Aida Macaraeg Case No. 7892)”; “Till We Meet Again”; “Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow”; “The Day They Robbed America”; “Asawa Ko, Huwag Mong Agawin.”
That was when Deborah fell trap to a destructive vice. “I got into drugs,” she admits. “I’m sure everyone knows that.
She also also got involved with her “Diborsyada” co-star, Jimi Melendez, then married to somebody else, and with whom she later bore a son, Jam. At the time she already had a daughter, Gelanie, who was born when Deborah was only 15.
Downward spiral
As her career bottomed out, her personal life went on a downward spiral as her drug addiction worsened. In 1989 Deborah was forced to migrate to the United States in 1989. That same year, fellow actress Lorna Tolentino filed an estafa case against her over non-payment of jewelry.
Trying to turn a new leaf, Deborah settled in New York and landed a job in a famous American clothing line. She also fell in love with a Filipino-American, with whom she has a daughter, Gemmalyn, her youngest.
But 15 years of living in the US was no better, as Deborah couldn’t lick her drug problem. “I couldn’t stop it,” she says.
In 2004 she returned to the Philippines.
A few months after guesting in a TV show, Deborah was placed on the Bureau of Immigration’s hold-departure list and eventually arrested for violations of Batas Pambansa 22 or the Anti-Bouncing Checks Law.
Saving grace
In 2005 she was sentenced to five years and six months in prison.
Deborah describes her life behind bars as something like “being alive and dead at the same time.”
On the other hand, being in jail, she says, also proved to be her saving grace.
“If I didn’t get imprisoned, I would have been more hooked on drugs. I might have even become a pusher,” she relates.
Only a year after serving her sentence, she was granted a conditional pardon from President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Deborah said she owed her release to the support of her longtime show biz friends, notably veteran actress Amalia Fuentes.
Now drug-free, Deborah swears she has walked away from her old carefree, devil-may-care attitude. All she can think of now is caring for her family.
Comeback
Staging a show biz comeback wasn’t easy, and she admitted having to burn the phone lines to reach out to producers and directors and ask for work.
Deborah has thus far appeared in two prime-time dramas on GMA 7, “La Vendetta” and “Impostora.” Just last year, she was cast in “Magdusa Ka,” “Babangon Ako’t Dudurugin Kita,” “ESP,” and the drama anthology “Obra.”
She also landed a supporting role in “My Best Friend’s Girlfriend” which top-billed Richard Gutierrez and Marian Rivera; a cameo in the comedy “Ded Na Si Lolo” (starring Gina Alajar, Elizabeth Oropesa, Dick Israel, Manilyn Reynes and Roderick Paulate).
Deborah was likewise seen in the just-concluded GMA 7 prime time series “Totoy Bato.” She noted that her comeback would not have been possible without the help of her long-time friend Gina Alajar and director Maryo J delos Reyes, as well as GMA 7, which opened its doors for her 20 years since her last major film, “Ibulong Mo Sa Diyos.”
She says her children, Gelanie, now 35, Jam, 26, and Gemmalyn, 8, inspire her to make the most of her rejuvenated career.
For now, Deborah is content with the projects and roles she’s been getting.
“I am not asking for a big talent fee. I only want a job,” she says. “It’s difficult to land roles these days because there are a lot of contenders.”
Getting her second wind, she hopes to let the dark chapters in her life remain closed and forgotten.
“I hope people will remember me as the Deborah in the early phase of her acting career,” she says, “not the one who became a drug addict and convict.”
But how does she really see herself?
“I’m a survivor,” she replies. “With all that has happened to me, I think that’s the only way I could best describe it.”
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I remember hearing about how Louis Malle was extremely taken by Deborah and wanted her in a project. But he passed away and that was that.
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I loved Deborah Sun in Gosiengfiao's NYMPHA. Her classy and restrained performance was so good.
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SOFIA Presents Joey Gosiengfiao's La Paloma: Ang Kalapating Ligaw
For the second leg of its series “Underrated Films, Forgotten Filmmakers,” the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA) presents La Paloma: Ang Kalapating Ligaw by Joey Gosiengfiao, to be screened for free at the Tanghalang Manuel Conde (CCP Dream Theater) on Thursday, November 26, 2009, at 4 pm.
Shot in 1974 in black and white, the humorous film tells the story of flamboyant actress Paloma Corazon (Ceclia Rodriguez), who's unexpected visit to the wake of the late Don Lorenzo (Ricky Belmonte), her lover, causes unwanted tension as she is deemed unwelcome by Don Lorenzo's wife Anida (Vina Casino). Chaos further ensues with the inevitable inheritance split, this time also involving Don Lorenzo's mother Soledad (Mona Lisa). Adding to the mess is the entry of Joel (Orestes Ojeda), a struggling but handsome guitarist who applies as a gardener in the mansion.
Hilarious at every turn and filled with biting wit and social commentary, La Paloma: Ang Kalapating Ligaw is a film that truly deserves a second look.
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Through its program “Underrated Films, Forgotten Filmmakers,” the Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA) aims to spark awareness and a renewed sense of appreciation for Filipino films that have hitherto gone unnoticed, as well as to turn the spotlight on local filmmakers who have not received their proper due but who are undoubtedly worthy of recognition.
For more details, please contact Vicky Belarmino at 832-1125 loc. 1704 to 1705 or Monchito Nocon at 0920 2836393, or email [email protected]
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I still remember during my elementary & high school days in Cavite City, i would spend my weekends watching films by Joey Gosiengfiao & Elwood Perez in a third run theater. Since most of their movies are For Adults Only, i'm not allowed to watch it with my mom ( a fan of both filmakers) in first run moviehouses. Then i would wait for them to be shown on Piling Piling Pelikula and Cine Spectacular on channel 13. I miss those days.
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Most of Sine Pilipino Prods and Juan dela Cruz flicks were shown on PPP & Cine Spectacular on channel 13. Brings to my mind again.....LIPAD DARNA LIPAD, ZOOM ZOOM SUPERMAN & SI POPEYE ATBP.
And if you're not tired of watching them you can still catch it every Saturday. Right after Saturday Fun Machine on channel 9, im glued on the couch on channel 13.
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I can't remember if i'd seen Lipad Darna Lipad and Zoom Zoom Superman which is such a shame. I remember watching Popeye and loved the Dracula episode. Another Gosiengfiao film i want to see again is Bedspacers. I remember watching it on Cine Spectacular and particularly liked the character of Rio Locsin as the social climbing Itang. To bad i always fail to catch it whenever they show it on Cinema One. Same with Underage. I remember those Saturday afternoons too when i am glued on the T.V. watching re-runs of Supergirl of Pinky Montilla and Elektrika Kasi Eh of Trixia Gomez, though both were not directed by Gosienfiao & Perez.
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Cinema One's copy of BEDSPACERS is in bad shape. Worst copy of Gosiengfiao flick I've seen on cable.
Even the gang rape scene of Rio Locsin was mangled terribly!
Ariel Ureta's comic timing is impeccable in ZOOM ZOOM SUPERMAN & SI POPEYE ATBP.
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bakla b yan dalawang direktor n yan? :D
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Where the hell did you find that?
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Does anybody knows how I can buy this all time movie classic in DVD. I am still looking for Lipad Darna Lipad starring MIss Vilma Santos and Don don Nakar..Thanks
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MIRACLE OF LOVE (Elwood Perez, 1983)
Saw it yesterday and still it doesn't looks dated the first time I saw it theatrically. Elwood's flick is a celebration of life and love amidst solitude and despair in another country. Handsomely shot in France, his finest work along with BILANGIN ANG BITUIN SA LANGIT. Snooky and Gabby during their heyday looks cute but it was the late Roxanne Abad Santos that almost stole the thunder from them. The scene where Gabby just left the hospital after visiting Roxanne walking and passing by at the church summarizes all the sadness and solitude that a man can experience and cling to his faith. It hit me right on the spot. Beautiful, heartbreaking, poignant!
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http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20110129-317362/Film-buffs-group-resurrects-Elwood-Perez-trilogy