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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #180 on: May 28, 2007 at 05:54 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #181 on: May 29, 2007 at 08:37 AM »
Nah, my eyes were always on Dina.
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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #182 on: Jun 01, 2007 at 06:37 PM »


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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #183 on: Jun 01, 2007 at 07:00 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #184 on: Jun 01, 2007 at 07:04 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #185 on: Jun 01, 2007 at 07:30 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #186 on: Jun 01, 2007 at 08:16 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #187 on: Jul 26, 2007 at 09:08 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #188 on: Jul 30, 2007 at 09:43 AM »
i just uploaded a scene from Joey Gosiengfiao's Bomba Star...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v5S4wMmpvqU

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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #189 on: Aug 01, 2007 at 10:13 AM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #190 on: Aug 01, 2007 at 12:05 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #191 on: Aug 01, 2007 at 12:35 PM »
Check sked at cinemaone.tv

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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #192 on: Aug 02, 2007 at 12:46 AM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #193 on: Aug 02, 2007 at 08:29 AM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #194 on: Aug 02, 2007 at 08:48 AM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #195 on: Aug 02, 2007 at 08:18 PM »
Jojo can you upload the scene where Rio was serving breakfast to LT in Elwood Perez' STEPSISTERS?  ;D

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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #197 on: Aug 03, 2007 at 10:23 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #198 on: Aug 03, 2007 at 11:21 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #200 on: Aug 04, 2007 at 06:23 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #201 on: Oct 02, 2007 at 07:59 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #202 on: Oct 07, 2007 at 07:41 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #203 on: Oct 29, 2007 at 07:05 PM »


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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #204 on: Jan 12, 2008 at 12:43 PM »
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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Re: Joey Reyes on Joey Gosiengfiao
« Reply #205 on: Jan 13, 2008 at 06:45 PM »
 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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #206 on: Jan 13, 2008 at 10:03 PM »


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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #207 on: Jan 14, 2008 at 06:13 AM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #208 on: Jan 14, 2008 at 06:29 PM »
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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Re: Focus on Joey Gosiengfiao/Elwood Perez
« Reply #209 on: Jan 14, 2008 at 07:06 PM »
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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