Juaniyo Arcellana
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- Sep 12, 2026
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Church in the crosshairs of Venice (opens the original)
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No matter how many times you’ve seen films by one filmmaker, say in this case the auteur Lav Diaz, you try to decipher what new things he has to say, what novel innovations he has devised through the years in his capacity as the cinema’s elderly guard. In “Makikiraan Po (Let us through, dear ancestors),” which premiered in Venice last Friday, Sept. 10 and won the Brian Award (Premio Brian), Diaz again mines the dialectic in cinema, training his sights this time on the Catholic church, part and p
Postscript to a systemic madness (opens the original)
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Twenty-two editions later, the Cinemalaya film festival is still pushing the envelope for independent local cinema, despite the weather being uncooperative as usual and rains, floods turning the metropolis into a muddy, not-so-virtual waterworld. It has come a long way, no doubt, from the maiden jury prize winner “Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros” in 2005, which went on to reap international fame and awards for its director Aureaus Solito (a.k.a. Kanakan Balintagos) and stamped in memory the p
The Odyssey, teachers and rock songs (opens the original)
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Just as the Christopher Nolan rendition of Homer’s epic poem is about to wrap up a month-long run in theaters, and you’ve read or ignored every post, review or analysis of the almost three-hour movie that has become the talk of the town among both academics and hoi polloi, what should come running like water for this quiet cinemagoer but a flood of memories from college years, of our teachers at the state university who taught us the Iliad, The Odyssey and other classics of world literature, in
Ode to Port Area (opens the original)
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MANILA, Philippines — Months before the big move to Sucat, Parañaque, I began taking random snapshots on my cellphone of varied sights and sounds in the original Philippine STAR office in Port Area, where the newspaper was based for 37 years, not only as a way of remembrance and posterity, but in view of the possibility that they can be rolled out for occasions like this present project. During the time we stayed there, it was as if that part of Manila was the center of the universe, so near Lun
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