My Journal, Or: Thing to Do When There's Nothing Else To

Tambolista (Drumbeat, Adolfo Alix, Jr., 2oo8)

Battle Royale, Battle Royale 2, PTU, Triad Elections

Babae sa Bubungang Lata (Woman on the Tin Roof, Mario O'Hara, 1998)

Star Wars: The Cone Wars (Dave Filoni, 2008)

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Confessional (Jerrold Tarog & Ruel Dahis Antipuesto, 2008)

Jules Dassin, 1911 -2008

Wall.E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

Wanted, Effie Briest..., Shall We Dance?, Election

Kurosawa Kyoshi

King Kong (Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 1933)

King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005)

The Bank Job (Roger Donaldson, 2008)

Adam and Steve (Craig Chester, 2005)

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Pete Lacaba's Lifetime Achievement Award

Hellboy 2: The Golden Army (Guillermo del Toro, 2008)

Hancock (Peter Berg, 2008), Wall.E (Andrew Stanton, 2008)

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Mamoru Hosada, 2006)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974)

Martha (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973)

The Incredible Hulk (Louis Leterrier, 2008)

Forty Filipino Films in Paris

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Taon noong ako'y anak sa labas (Years When I Was a Child Outside, John Torres, 2008)

A quiz on Philippine cinema

Summer movies (Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, Paranoid Park)

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Taong noong ako'y anak sa labas (Years When I Was a Child Outside, John Torres, 2008)

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Raya Martin in Director's Fortnight; Brillante Mendoza in Cannes' Main Competition

Santiago (Lino Brocka, 1970)

Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (Does Your Heart Beat Faster? Mike de Leon, 1980)

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson, 2008)

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Steven Spielberg, 2008)

Indiana Jones movies (Raiders of the Lost Ark; Temple of Doom; The Last Crusade)

Perfect Creature (Glenn Standring, 2006)

Deception (Marcel Langenegger, 2008)

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Mario O'Hara films on VCD and other DVD releases

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Comrade X, Force of Evil, Sunrise

No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2007)

Shutter (Masuyuki Oichiai, 2008)

Horton Hears a Who (Jimmy Hayward and Steve Martino, 2008)

Bone marrow soup and steamed rice

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Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, 2007)

3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007)

Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007); We Own the Night (James Gray, 2007); Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik, 2007)

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Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not, Gerardo de Leon, 1961), kino-sine

Excerpt:

For the occasion of the launching of Tilman Baumgartel's book Kino-Sine: Philippine-German Cinema Relations, basically a collection of articles that outlines the development of the Philippine independent filmmaking movement of the '70, '80s, '90s, and its strong links with the Goethe Institute Manila (Germany and the Philippines has this fascinating cultural--I don't know how to call it, affinity, fondness, affection--for each other)...for this occasion, I say, the Goethe Institute is kind enough to screen Gerardo de Leon's flawed but nevertheless fascinating masterpiece Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not, 1961) on Wednesday, February 20, 1.30 pm, at the Cine Adarne, UP Film Center, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City.

The main reason Noli was chosen for the mini-festival, of course, was because the novel--Filipino hero and martyr Jose Rizal's first major work--was printed in Berlin, and the last surviving print of de Leon's film adaptation was helpfully if wobbily (it was in extremely poor condition) restored by the Goethe Institute.

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