April 12, 2009 – 12:31 am
Note: I wrote this review many many years ago…. A commercial success during its initial public screening in 1998, this film also reaped major awards in the country and even in international film festivals. The people behind the production of this film succeeded in capitalizing on the renewed interest of the public on historical themes [...]
Christ stopped at Eboli The film was an adaptation of Carlo Levi’s autobiographical novel about the years he spent in Eboli, a remote village in southern Italy. Levi was an anti-fascist intellectual who was exiled to Eboli because of his political activities during the 1930s. Because of its detachment from Rome and other urban centers [...]
General Della Rovere (1959) Victorio Emanuele Bardone is a conman who makes money by pretending to help desperate families whose relatives are incarcerated in Nazi-controlled jails in Italy during the closing years of World War II. A high-ranking German officer, Colonel Mueller, was impressed by Bardone’s skills and offers the latter a proposition: His crimes [...]
February 25, 2009 – 3:18 am
Bread and Tulips Storyline: When Rosalba missed her tour bus, she decided to take a brief vacation in Venice. She met Fernando, a nice but lonely and suicidal waiter who kindly provided a room for her. She also got a job at a flower shop. Away from household duties and surrounded by amiable persons, Rosalba [...]
February 11, 2009 – 2:55 pm
Up the deadly boot (2001) A History channel production, 100 minutes January 28. The video is about the military campaign of the Allied powers to capture Rome during World War II. Allied troops arrived in Sicily on July 1943; then they invaded Messina and Salerno. The Germans fought back in Anzio. But they were soon [...]
December 26, 2008 – 12:21 am
Southeast Asia: The shoe, the shoe and Philippines: Fisherman saved by dolphins and whales – posts written for Global Voices. December 6. I went to the San Francisco Public Library – to borrow books; to find some quiet place where nobody would bother me about my views about the Pacquiao-dela Hoya boxing match; and to [...]
September 23, 2005 – 10:41 pm
What happened to Francis Ford Coppola? He was one of the greatest, if not the most intelligent filmmaker of the 70’s. Now he is overshadowed by contemporaries like Martin Scorcese and Roman Polanski who continue to make award-winning films. Perhaps he is too preoccupied building beach resorts in the Caribbean or consolidating his title as [...]
umuutang pa ako noon para lang makapanood ng pelikula ni jet li. sinusuyod namin ang mga video shop sa project 7, quezon city sa pag-asang makahiram ng mga piniratang VHS ng mga pelikula ni jet li galing hong kong. sa katunayan bukod sa paghanga ko kay chairman mao, kumuha ako ng chinese language na subject [...]
Balita sa Amerika ang mababang rating ng mga comedy sitcom dahil sa patuloy na pangingibabaw ng mga reality show. Maliban sa Everybody Loves Raymond, wala sa Top 30 ang mga lumang sitcom tulad ng Will and Grace at Joey. Sa tingin ko ay hindi lamang rating ang dapat problemahin kundi ang kalidad ng mga programang [...]
March 24, 2005 – 11:57 pm
Napanood ko ulit ang pelikulang ‘The Spy’ kanina at naalala ko na meron pala akong nasulat na rebyu dito. Akmang-akma ito sa paggunita ng anibersaryo ng pagsakop ng US sa Iraq at sa kasalukuyang panghihimasok ng Amerika sa ating bansa…. Mahirap hindi mabighani sa pelikulang ‘The Spy’ lalo na’t may kasalatan sa ating bansa ng mga obrang [...]
