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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #60 on: May 28, 2004 at 09:48 AM »
The late Lino Brocka
Raymond Red for Bayani and Sakay
Marilou Diaz Abaya for Rizal and Muro Ami
Laurice Guillen
Peque Gallaga
Hey, that's my bike!

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #61 on: May 30, 2004 at 09:22 PM »
he's really in love with pinoy films.

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dear Tikoy, Laurice Guillen, Mara and Jose F. Lacaba, Mike de Leon, Doy del
Mundo,

it was a real pleasure to meet with Laurice and Doy in Singapore.

Almost upon my arrival in Paris, Olivier Père in charge today of the
Director's fortnight with a a young team invited me for a screening of the
new film of Mario O' Hara which he had just invited.

It is probably very personal but looking at the film was like living again
all the happenings of the late seventies and the early eighties as well the
makings of the films in the streets and the slums, the evenings of PETA at
Fort Santiago, the screenings at LVN, the giant political rallyes, the
vaudeville disputes with the censorship, the film of Mario reflects and
chronicles all of that and more - and certainly the music track is
nostalgic.

I also remembered all the technical difficulties which we had to overcome,
printing, subtitling and this is also why I am writing this e-mail fax - in
whatever capacity you can, please contribute to make this comeback at Cannes
in the section, where "Insiang" and Mike's films came, as successful as
possible - and it will be a celebration of Lino and Hammy who would have
rejoiced the event, a celebration of CineManila as well as of "Maynila".

The young gentlemen of the Quinzaine did not know that Tikoy named his
Festival from the company which produced "Tinimbang", maybe Doy could write
a note about it, Pete about the political turmoils, Mike about the role of
LVN, Laurice as an early collaborator of Mario, Tikoy as a young spectator.

Maybe all of you together will convince Mario, who I believe is afraid to
fly, to make an exception.

In France, we are still a few to remember those great moments, we shall all
be happy to welcome him, hoping that the Filipino film industry will start
again, look at what has happened in the recent years in Korea and Thailand.
There are signals in Sri Lanka, where Lester James Peries at 82 made a great
classical film, and Malaysia of something new, nothing would make more happy
Francisco Baltazar, Jose Rizal, Gerardo de Leon, Lino, Ishmael and Hammy if
the same happens within the Philippine Islands.

-Pierre Rissent

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #62 on: May 31, 2004 at 01:31 PM »
Oh! Ernst Stavro Blofeld--sorry, Pierre Rissent--speaks! ;D

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Re:WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #63 on: May 31, 2004 at 02:07 PM »
NONE. they all suck. they're all unimaginitive.


Haha.  I'm with you on this greatbop. ;D ;D

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Re:WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #64 on: May 31, 2004 at 03:22 PM »


Haha.  I'm with you on this greatbop. ;D ;D

...jesus christ, another one...

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #65 on: Jun 01, 2004 at 10:46 AM »
Another one what? You think it's just greatbop and I who feel that way? You think we're the exceptions? I haven't  been watching any Filipino movies lately for a good reason or so I thought. Was I out of the loop for too long? Have we produced our own M. Night Shayamalan, Ang Lee, or even a Gurinder Chadha in the meantime? Where are the movies? 

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Re:WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #66 on: Jun 01, 2004 at 11:59 AM »


...jesus christ, another one...

St. Peter, St. John...another genius than you...Noel.  ;D

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #67 on: Jun 01, 2004 at 01:24 PM »
Another one what? You think it's just greatbop and I who feel that way? You think we're the exceptions? I haven't  been watching any Filipino movies lately for a good reason or so I thought. Was I out of the loop for too long? Have we produced our own M. Night Shayamalan, Ang Lee, or even a Gurinder Chadha in the meantime? Where are the movies? 

Hey, I just feel it's careless (to put it politely) to lump an entire country's cinema and filmmakers into one category (sucks).

M Night Shayamalan? Ang Lee? Chadha? Against Lav Diaz, Mike de Leon, Lino Brocka, Mario O'Hara, Celso Ad. Castillo, Gerry de Leon? I'd like to hear the argument.
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #68 on: Jun 01, 2004 at 03:22 PM »
Hey, I just feel it's careless (to put it politely) to lump an entire country's cinema and filmmakers into one category (sucks).

Point taken. It's just that the sweep and crassness of greatbop's remark perfectly captured the indifference and disappointment over local movies I've developed thru the years as a more-than-casual movie watcher. Sadly film has proved to be just another arena where Filipinos have underachieved. Without exception, the supposedly better local movies I've come across I can only describe with any combination of the follwing: unoriginal, unrealistic, ostentatious, uninspiring, and technically crude.  I'd be as proud as you the day Filipino film makers achieve international acclaim and recognition, never mind commercial success.  Do you honestly believe we have broken thru the world stage even once? I ask cause you're asking me to compare our directors to ones who have.  And lest you think so, that isn't even my gauge for judging a movie.   

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #69 on: Jun 02, 2004 at 08:07 AM »


It's just that the sweep and crassness of greatbop's remark

The sweep and crassness of bop's remark doesn't even begin to convey the idiocy of what he's saying. If he's seen the relevant Filipino films, then maybe we can take his remark seriously.

You HAVE to be careful saying things like that. Or be prepared to back up your statement. Because you'll be questioned for it, that's for sure. It's not being 'onion skinned,' it's calling on a comment that was probably posted without thinking and probably without much knowledge of the subject being disparaged.

So, have you seen Pila Balde, Segurista, Pangarap ng Puso, Bubungang Lata, Batang West Side, Kriminal ng Baryo Concepcion, Bayaning Third World, Rizal sa Dapitan, Lihim ni Madonna, Eskapo, Bubungang Lata, Sisa, La Vida Rosa? Has he?

If so, let's talk further.

We've always been world class; not all of us (maybe a fraction of a percent) and certainly the world doesn't know it. It's a matter of marketing.


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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #70 on: Jun 02, 2004 at 10:40 AM »
It's just sad that some people always look down regarding our own Filipino films. Yes its true only a fraction you could say hit the world market...but there are many things to look into, politics is one, censorship and what Noel said the idiocy of some people.


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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #71 on: Jun 02, 2004 at 02:14 PM »
henares' keka just plain sucked. his shadow shouldnt even be mentioned in the topic

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #72 on: Jun 03, 2004 at 02:40 AM »
Film critics like Max Tessier and Pierre Rissient of France, Tony Rayns of England, and programmers like Philip Cheah of Singapore and Jacob Wong of Hong Kong have more of a clue about what's going on in Philippine cinema than some of the people on this thread.

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #73 on: Jul 05, 2004 at 12:10 AM »
Maryo J. Delos Reyes did it again w/ Naglalayag and Magnifico.... a grand slam award winning work.  proves to be one of the greatest filipino director of our time.

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #74 on: Jul 05, 2004 at 03:56 AM »
Maryo J. Delos Reyes did it again w/ Naglalayag and Magnifico.... a grand slam award winning work.  proves to be one of the greatest filipino director of our time.

Ah. Uh...ahem.  ::)

You have seen the films of, oh, Mike de Leon, Celso Ad. Castillo, Ishmael Bernal, Lino Brocka, Mario O'Hara, Gerardo de Leon?
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Re:WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #75 on: Jul 05, 2004 at 05:56 AM »
NONE. they all suck. they're all unimaginitive.


i concur.  ;)
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Re:WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #76 on: Jul 05, 2004 at 07:37 AM »
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #77 on: Jul 05, 2004 at 06:42 PM »
Oh my...I want to be at peace na with myself.... ;D

But with regards to Maryo J...the man finally hit it with MAGNIFICO his best film bar none.

He is one of the best in the league of Peque, Mario O'Hara and his other contemporaries.
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Re:WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #78 on: Jul 15, 2004 at 04:05 PM »
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #79 on: Jul 16, 2004 at 09:52 AM »
YAHOOS

From Gulliver's Travels:

Here we entered, and I saw  three of those detestable creatures whom I first met after my landing feeding  upon roots and the flesh of some animals which I afterwards found to be that  of asses and dogs, and now and then a cow dead by accident or disease. They  were all tied by the neck with strong withes fastened to a beam; they held  their food between the claws of their forefeet, and tore it with their teeth.

My  horror and astonishment are not to be described when I observed in this  abominable animal a perfect human figure; the face of it, indeed, was flat and  broad, the nose depressed, the lips large, and the mouth wide. But these  differences are common to all savage nations, where the lineaments of the  countenances are distorted by the natives suffering their infants to lie  grovelling on the earth, or by carrying them on their backs, nestling with  their face against the mother's shoulders. The forefeet of the Yahoo differed  from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and  brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs. There was the same  resemblances between our feet, with the same differences, which I knew very  well, though the horses did not, because of my shoes and stockings; the same  in every part of our bodies, except as to hairiness and colour which I have  already described.

I did indeed observe that the Yahoos were the only animals in this country  subject to any diseases, which, however, were much fewer than horses have  among us, and contracted not by any ill-treatment they meet with, but by the  nastiness and greediness of that sordid brute...the cure  prescribed is a mixture of their own dung and urine forcibly put down the  Yahoo's throat.
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #80 on: Aug 06, 2004 at 10:52 PM »


Ah. Uh...ahem.  ::)

You have seen the films of, oh, Mike de Leon, Celso Ad. Castillo, Ishmael Bernal, Lino Brocka, Mario O'Hara, Gerardo de Leon?


Yes!!!! Noel Ive seen the films of the directors you mentioned. Ive got a copy of the films from Lino Brocka, Mike de Leon, Celso Ad. Castillo. classic still the best for me. But i gave credit on one of my favorite film director Maryo j. delos Reyes. Do you think i dont like filipino directors?!!! Hey i made this topic. :)
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #81 on: Aug 07, 2004 at 01:21 AM »



classic still the best for me.

Good to hear that from you, then.
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #82 on: May 05, 2006 at 09:29 AM »
I thought BILANGGONG BIRHEN was megged by Romy Suzara?

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #83 on: May 05, 2006 at 09:32 AM »
I thought BILANGGONG BIRHEN was megged by Romy Suzara?

it was finished by Romy Suzara (mostly post production work, i think) but Mario o'Hara filmed the entire movie...
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #84 on: May 05, 2006 at 09:35 AM »
Was Mario fired out by the producer?

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #85 on: May 05, 2006 at 09:38 AM »
Was Mario fired out by the producer?

i guess he had a huge argument with Armida... i heard that O'Hara walked out of the project, but Noel probably knows the whole story behind it.

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #86 on: May 05, 2006 at 10:22 AM »
Armida was giving Mario a hard time; she I think fired him, and wanted him to come to her and apologize. He simply walked out.

He disowns the film, but it's easily the best, subtlest, most beautiful film Armida's ever produced, and she's magnificent and beautiful in it (and I know why ;D). I much prefer it over Oro Plata Mata.

Incidentally, eman, it wasn't Bernal who discovered Nora can act--he was a latecomer too. Gerry de Leon arguably was the first (along with, uh, Avellana, in Fe Esperanza Caridad), but she was really noticed in O'Hara's Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos.

(I'm pretty sure of that, but if Jojo has a different opinion, I'll defer to him)

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« Reply #87 on: May 05, 2006 at 03:41 PM »
it's really difficult to credit which director was responsible in discovering Nora's acting abilities. in my opinion she showed great promise in Danny Holmsen's Maalaala Mo Kaya? (1973) and Carmela (1973) followed by George Rowe's Paru-Parong Itim (1973). although her acting has been honed to perfection in her weekly drama series Ang Makulay Na Daigdig Ni Nora by no less than Lupita Concio (now Kashiwahara), Ishmael Bernal and Maryo J. de los Reyes then went into full blast in 1974's Fe, Esperanza, Caridad where she was handled by two of the greatest Filipino filmmakers Lamberto Avellana & Gerry de Leon. but as Noel said Nora gained critical acclaim and respect from the industry with Mario O'Hara's Tatlong Taong Walang Diyos (1976). she actually attended acting workshops initiated by Maryo J. & Lupita for the young actors who'll be starring in Alkitrang Dugo which Nora herself produced.
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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #88 on: May 06, 2006 at 06:03 AM »
So eman was right after all--Nora was handled by Bernal early on, but on TV...

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Re: WHO ARE YOUR TOP 5 FILIPINO DIRECTORS?
« Reply #89 on: May 06, 2006 at 06:38 AM »
i guess so... but it's not only Bernal there's also Maryo J.  & Lupita