March 2012
5 posts
February 2012
29 posts
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It usually begins with a painfully familiar story. A young girl from an impoverished family is lured by the friend of a friend who promises her a high-paying job abroad as a waitress. The amount both staggers and delights her, and she immediately says yes. How can she not want to help her family, after all? The paper work, magically, is prepared for her in the blink of an eye. She is told that she...
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The Conversation: Berlin Film Festival Buzz is... →
The Woman in the Septic Tank
So many good moments in this South Park-esque satire of two young Filipino filmmakers trying to break into the film festival circuit with the ultimate third world festival movie, about a suffering slum mother forced to sell her son to a pedophile. There’s the raucous casting debate between three actresses as the lead, creating three simulated scenarios for the...
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January 2012
25 posts
Tahanan ng mga taga PEYUPS: Dulaang UP's The... →
unibersidadngpilipinas:
In celebration of National Artist for Theatre Wilfrido Ma. Guerrero’s birth centennial and to cap its 36th Season, Dulaang UP presents one of his most celebrated works, The Forsaken House, under the direction of multi-awarded theater icon Tony Mabesa.
Early 1940s. The Philippines is…
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Watcheverythinggray:
OMFG
Fuck their lives.