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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #30 on: Sep 23, 2006 at 05:37 PM »
There are talks that, this will be screen at U.P. Film Center next month. Let's keep our fingers crossed!
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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #31 on: Sep 28, 2006 at 03:10 AM »
showing on oct 4 in up, 1 pm - 5 pm.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #32 on: Oct 09, 2006 at 07:45 PM »
Anyone who have seen the film at U.P. Film Center?
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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #33 on: Oct 12, 2006 at 12:22 AM »
we were supposed to see it but the screening was moved to 3PM instead of 1PM. lav diaz and joel torre graced the event. dahil late na matatapos, we opted not to see it anymore...  :(
Absolutely no regrets!

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #34 on: Oct 22, 2006 at 02:22 PM »
I talked to one of the producers of the film, Mon Mappala, and he told me how Lav had planned to shoot the film in fall, when the leaves were gold and orange. But delays were such that the shoot was moved to winter.

And I think it works out better that way. Gold and orange leaves would have given the film a prettier-looking, more Hollywood-feeling melancholy, whereas there's nothing like winter (and at one point they shot in a blizzard) to really bring out the depth of one's loneliness and depression.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #35 on: Oct 27, 2006 at 05:23 AM »
This I've yet to see....

I've only seen two films by Lav Diaz: Kriminal ng Bo. Concepcion (got it in VHS) and his Nouvelle Vague-ish Burger Boys (that I almost skipped merely because I wasn't too fond of the cast).

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #36 on: Oct 27, 2006 at 08:34 AM »
Oh no, forget the cast; it's a interesting film because it's so thoroughly a product of Lav's mind. Nihilism and not a little dropped acid--I like it better than such recent exercises as Big Time or PInoy Blonde--there's a real sense of pain and anger in the film, it's not an assumed stance.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #37 on: Oct 27, 2006 at 09:38 AM »
Yup, Burger Boys is angst-sy or whatever you'd call it.

Er..now I guess my Filipino-film deficiency is slowly turning to a disease (missed a lot of good ones).

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #38 on: Feb 24, 2007 at 01:09 PM »


Lav Diaz at work.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #39 on: Feb 24, 2007 at 01:11 PM »


Photos from BATANG WEST SIDE. Courtesy of Flip Magazine.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #40 on: Feb 25, 2007 at 09:19 PM »
i actually live in this area of West Side Avenue...

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #41 on: Feb 25, 2007 at 09:22 PM »
Cool, jo. Too bad they haven't release this Lav Diaz opus on dvd.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #42 on: Feb 25, 2007 at 09:27 PM »
it would be impossible... Tony Veloria is holding on to the film like glue.  ;)

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #43 on: Feb 25, 2007 at 09:30 PM »
He should move on na. Yul Servo is in the Philippines already.  ;D

Even Lav has no copy of this film.

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #44 on: Feb 25, 2007 at 09:35 PM »
i guess it's difficult for him to let go after all he produced this film for Yul...

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Re: Batang West Side
« Reply #45 on: Feb 25, 2007 at 09:40 PM »
Lav just used a handycam to shoot that ending with Joel Torre. And its so craping brilliant! When he saw the film for the first time in U.P. in one sitting, he nearly cried.

They should tuck in Lav's commentary in it, there are so many things that happened with his life while making it.