by Michael Guillen, March 16, 2010 3:24 PM
"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" When he was a boy, Richard Bolisay's...
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by Michael Guillen, March 15, 2010 5:16 PM
"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" According to Dodo Dayao's MySpace page, he...
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by Michael Guillen, March 12, 2010 6:22 PM
"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" Lessons From the School of Inattention has...
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by Michael Guillen, March 12, 2010 12:25 AM
"What a title!" Michael Hawley quipped regarding the 1974 film Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang (You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting), one of the four films featured in the Lino Brocka mini-retrospective that comprises part of the focus on...
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by James Dennis, March 11, 2010 8:38 AM
If you've read these pages much at all over the past year then you'll be aware of the love Yang Ik-June's Breathless has received from Twitch scribes. There's an abundance of info and reviews in the links below, so I'll...
by Michael Guillen, March 10, 2010 1:02 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for offering this entry to the Twitch readership.] The 28th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) kicks off tomorrow night, March 11 and continues throughout the Bay Area until March 21. I've...
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by Michael Guillen, March 9, 2010 10:29 PM
Before finding words to describe my pleasure in viewing my first Lino Brocka film You Have Been Weighed and Found Wanting (1974), I'd like to render a few comments on the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF)...
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by Michael Guillen, March 5, 2010 1:35 PM
[Our thanks to Michael Hawley for contributing his preview to the Twitch readership.] Of the five documentaries I previewed on DVD screener for this year's San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF), my favorite is one doc-purists might...
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by James Marsh, February 28, 2010 5:56 AM
Tickets are now on sale for more than 240 films from over 50 countries that will be screening between 21st March and 6th April and there's some pretty exciting stuff lined up....
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by Michael Guillen, February 24, 2010 6:08 PM
I am pleased to announce the publication of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities, edited by Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung, published by University of St. Andrews Film Studies in conjunction with their Dynamics of World...
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