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Tag: Cinema One Originals
Cinema One Originals 2019 Review: Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis review: Engelbert Rafferty dissects J.E. Tiglao’s debut film, nearly an out-of-body experience as it is. Another very effective treatment for erectile dysfunction but it
Cinema One Originals 2018 Festival Guide
Cinema One Originals 2018 is just a few days away. This year, with the theme “I Am Original”, the long-running fest is slated to serve
Review: SALVAGE, a Genre Exercise in Subversion
Warning: Full spoilers ahead. “Te, kailangan ba kitang isama sa frame?” [“Sister, do I have to include you in the frame?”] Barbie (Barbie Capacio), the make-up artist, asks between screams, as
“SI CHEDENG AT SI APPLE” is that ‘tita’ who calls you fat in reunions
Chedeng (Gloria Diaz) finds her true love and Apple (Elizabeth Oropesa) gets away with murder. This is the premise of Si Chedeng at si Apple,
Changing Partners
In the first minutes of Changing Partners, Agot Isidro’s Alex (don’t be confused, there’ll be two Alex’s here — that’s kind of the concept of the
Nervous Translation
People often say “see the world through the eyes of a child,” acting as if these words are the remedy to cynicism. Somehow this phrase
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
In social psychology, there’s this concept known as moral self-licensing. Moral self-licensing is what we call the tendency of man to succeed an act of
A Guide to the 13th Cinema One Originals Film Festival
The 13th Cinema One Originals is just around the corner and it’s promising to come into our theaters more fearless than ever. This year’s fest brings
Cinema One Originals, QCinema reveal 2016 lineup
Major local indie film festivals Cinema One Originals and QCinema, via their respective Facebook pages, both announced on Wednesday their lineups of competing films for
Baka Siguro Yata
A ne’er-do-well fat slacker and a bombshell way out his league end up pregnant after a drunken hook-up and learn to love each other along the
Cinema One Originals 2015 Screening Schedules
The promotional materials for this year’s Cinema One Originals Film Festival are always emblazoned with the phrase: kakaiba ka ba? An invitation, it seems, to embrace
Cinema One Originals 2015 announces lineup
Rest is for the wicked, so as QCIFF is hushing to a close, Cinema One Originals (“C1Origs” to the hipper club) is at work building
6 tips on surviving the ‘film festival’ season
As if Cinemalaya wasn’t enough… It’s been a long way down the road since Alexis Tioseco’s Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema in which he relays what
‘Dahling Nick’ revisits the inner world of Nick Joaquin on its trailer
The extended postponement is finished! Sari Raissa Lluch Dalena returns to Cinema One Originals Digital Films Festival with Dahling Nick, a biopic film dedicated to Nick Joaquin,
March 2015 Screenings and Workshops at UPFI Film Institute
Environmental films, Cinema One Originals 2014, women in Philippine Cinema, digitally restored classics, Kidlat Tahimik’s new offering, workshops on photography, scriptwriting, and film criticism are
Hindi Sila Tatanda
Malay Javier’s Hindi Sila Tatanda is an indulgent play at sonic and visual euphoria. The film has earned that merit. It is technically subversive, too;
The Babysitters
Being a film about a pair of swindlers, Paolo O’Hara’s The Babysitters begins with an auspicious prelude in which a caroller drones sarcastic lyrics to
