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02
Sep
09

This is one of those days…

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Categories: film

…when everything is heavy. My feet drag as I walk. My hands are unsure. My chest is tight and there’s something caught in my throat. It’s funny how one day, death and grief is just a concept and the next, it’s hearbreakingly real. Today, the Filipino film community mourns the tragic loss of one of it’s most passionate supporters. I didn’t know him personally (at least, we were never introduced) but I greatly admire him and his work.  It’s moments like this that make me wish I were a better believer in justice, in God or maybe even in karma. But all I can do is sit here, angry, sad and yes, scared, because right now it feels like every second we’re living is every second we’re dying too. I hope that each of us is inspired to live and love as completely and as passionately as Alexis Tioseco did, that one day the Philippine cinema he wished for is realized and that the senseless tragedy of all of this is not in vain.

01
Sep
09

Spike TV’s Scream 2009 Nominees (Vote Now!)

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Categories: film and television

@their website

Nominees and my votes under the cut:

Continue reading ‘Spike TV’s Scream 2009 Nominees (Vote Now!)’

27
Jul
09

Video Mondays: Vintage Bloopers

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Categories: film

Highlights:

Jimmy Stewart swears while Rosalind Russell laughs at him.

Bette Davis: “Help me. Help me, dear God, help me. I’m caught on his buttonhole”

Bacall: “story of my life…where do you want me to begin?”
Bogart: “oh I got a pretty good idea, I just can’t think of the goddamn line!”

Reagan: “You’re looking blooming”
Girl: “Oh, I’m fine. You been getting any lately?”
Reagan: “Over time, you mean?”

24
Jul
09

Film Fridays: Period Drama <3

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Categories: film

20
May
09

just can’t resist…

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Categories: film and stupidity 101

The teaser poster for New Moon was just released and all I can think is:

new moon demotivator

…

:)

You know I can’t resist Twilight bashing. Haha.

05
May
09

2008: A Year in Film Part 7

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Categories: film

sorry for the long hiatus but here it is, finally…

FAVORITE FILMS OF THE YEAR:
1. Happy Go Lucky (Mike Leigh)
2. Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt)
3. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
4. In Bruges (Martin MacDonagh)
5. Revolutionary Road (Sam Mendes)
6. The Reader (Stephen Daldry)
7. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)

whew. hopefully next year this will get finished a lot faster.

27
Mar
09

2008: A Year in Film Part 6

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Categories: film

[sorry for the long break. finally continuing this so...]

FAVORITE PERFORMANCES:
1. Sally Hawkins as Poppy in Happy Go Lucky – few characters in film are this lovely (irritating cheeriness and all) and she played it perfectly, effortlessly balancing Poppy’s lightness and weight.
2. Michelle Williams as Wendy in Wendy and Lucy
3. Kate Winslet as Hanna in The Reader
4. Kare Hedebrant as Oskar and Lina Leandersson as Eli in Let the Right One In
5. Ralph Fiennes in everything he’s been in this year, namely as  Michael in The Reader (remote and devastating), as Harry in In Bruges (foul-mouthed, hilarious) and as His Grace, the Duke of Devonshire in The Duchess (cold and forbidding)
6. Anne Hathaway as Kim and Rosemarie DeWitt as Rachel in Rachel Getting Married
7. Lee Pace as Roy and Cantinca Untaru as Alexandria in The Fall

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Strings
(Anders Rønnow Klarlund, 2004
Mad Men Season 2
(Matthew Weiner, 2008)
G.I. Joe
(Stephen Sommers, 2009)
And I Love You So
(Laurenti Dyogi, 2009)
Bones Season 4
(Hart Hanson, 2008)
How I Met Your Mother Season 4
(Carter Bays & Craig Thomas, 2008)
House Season 5
(David Shore, 2008)

Recent Books

Skylight Confessions
by Alice Hoffman
Echo
by Francesca Lia Block
Verses
by Ani DiFranco
Changeling
by Kristin Cashore
Briar Rose
by Robert Coover
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
by Chelsea Handler
Fragile Eternity
by Melissa Marr

Recent Songs

Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves
by Seanan McGuire
(2008)

Wendy played fair, and she played by the rules that they gave her;
They say she grew up and grew old -- Peter Pan couldn't save her.
They say she went home, and she never looked back,
Got her feet on the ground, got her life on its track.
She's the patron saint priestess of all the lost girls who got found.
And she once had her head in the clouds, but she died on the ground.

Dorothy just wanted something that she could believe in,
A gray dustbowl girl in a life she was better off leavin'.
She made her escape, went from gray into green,
And she could have got clear, and she could have got clean,
But she chose to be good and go back to the gray Kansas sky
Where color's a fable and freedom's a fairy tale lie.

Dorothy, Alice and Wendy and Jane,
Susan and Lucy, we're calling your names,
All the Lost Girls who came out of the rain
And chose to go back on the shelf.
Tinker Bell says, and I find I agree
You have to break rules if you want to break free.
So do as you like -- we're determined to be
Wicked girls saving ourselves.

Alice got lost, and I guess that we really can't blame her;
They say she got tangled and tied in the lies that became her.
They say she went mad, and she never complained,
For there's peace of a kind in a life unconstrained.
She gives Cheshire kisses, she's easy with white rabbit smiles,
And she'll never be free, but she's won herself safe for a while.

Susan and Lucy were queens, and they ruled well and proudly.
They honored their land and their lord, rang the bells long and loudly.
They never once asked to return to their lives
To be children and chattel and mothers and wives,
But the land cast them out in a lesson that only one learned;
And one queen said 'I am not a toy', and she never returned.

Mandy's a pirate, and Mia weaves silk shrouds for faeries,
And Deborah will pour you red wine pressed from sweet poisoned berries.
Kate poses riddles and Mary plays tricks,
While Kaia builds towers from brambles and sticks,
And the rules that we live by are simple and clear:
Be wicked and lovely and don't live in fear --

For we will be wicked and we will be fair
And they'll call us such names, and we really won't care,
So go, tell your Wendys, your Susans, your Janes,
There's a place they can go if they're tired of chains,
And our roads may be golden, or broken, or lost,
But we'll walk on them willingly, knowing the cost --
We won't take our place on the shelves.
It's better to fly and it's better to die
Say the wicked girls saving ourselves.