Archive for 'Cinema'

PIOLO PASCUAL

June 11th, 2008 – 7:53 am
Tagged as: Cinema

Manual Magazine, October 2004
To amuse the crew at a movie shoot, Judy Ann Santos supposedly once brought a bowl of rice over to a sleeping Piolo, and, never taking her gaze off him, wolfed the rice down without any viand whatsoever.
But Piolo isn’t just eye candy. He’s one of the few local artists who’ve achieved […]

HOW TO BE A LIGHTHOUSE (for Sid Gomez Hildawa)

April 7th, 2008 – 7:06 am
Tagged as: Art, Cinema

(version 1.2.1, with pictures + an expanded conclusion. With thanks to Fatima Lasay for comments leading to these revisions)

“For ten years, Sid was my lighthouse. Now he is gone.”
I wanted to leave it at that, if at all. Sid was a very private man, you see, and now more than ever, I felt the need […]

THE DOWNSIDE OF BEING FILIPINO

March 17th, 2007 – 4:59 am
Tagged as: Cinema, Misc

Published as a boxed article by the Inquirer on 24 Nov 2006, the only comment published in full. Other replies and rejoinders, including Jon Red’s were parsed and compiled by staffwriter Marinel Cruz. I emailed this to Prof. Baumgartel; he himself forwarded it to the Inquirer.

Dear Inquirer,
This is in response to UP Film Institute’s Prof. […]