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"Mama's putting on some war paint for a little bit of combat / You ask the reason / You gotta fight your freedom / sometimes every day / in every way..." —Laura Nyro. Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis ( Service ) joins the dilapidated narratives of Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Jacques Nolot’s La Chatte à deux têtes ( Porn Theatre ) , wherein the architecture of better days succumbs to poverty’s...
Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis (Service) joins the dilapidated narratives of Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn and Jacques Nolot’s La Chatte à deux têtes ( Porn Theatre ) , wherein the architecture of better days succumbs to poverty’s desperate immoralities and perversities. It’s a labyrinthine sojourn that serves as an allegorical deconstruction of contemporary Philippines where the family unit is...
Tambolista ( Drumbeat , Adolfo Alix, Jr., 2007) (Link good for a week, to be replaced by the full text, and revisions, corrections, additions, if necessary) Excerpt: Adolfo Alix, Jr.'s "Tambolista" (Drumbeat) recalls Brillante Mendoza's "Tirador" (Slingshot) in not a few ways, though probably not intentionally--both were released in 2007, both are noirish depictions of Manila, both feature multiple...
In absentia, internationally renowned Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza recently won the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac) for his film "Foster Child" at the Brisbane International Film Festival in Brisbane, Australia August 10.
Film News: South Africal film fest honors Mendoza drama -- Brillante Mendoza's "Foster Child," about a day in the life of a family preparing to say goodbye to the foster child they have raised, won the film award at the 29th Durban Intl. Film Festival on Sunday.
Internationally-acclaimed Filipino director BrillanteMendoza is in Durban, South Africa for the Durban International Film Festival ongoing from July 24 to 29, 2008. Mendoza is there to field his "Foster Child" in competition and "Tirador" in the official selection.
Internationally acclaimed Filipino director BrillanteMendoza will be in Durban, South Africa for the Durban International Film Festival on July 24 to 29, 2008 to field his "Foster Child" in competition and "Tirador" in the official selection.
In a rare chance meeting with famous and influential movie people abroad, Filipino director Brillante Mendoza said his personal encounter with Hollywood actor Sean Penn during the recently concluded Cannes Film Festival was fruitful.
Filipina actress Mercedes Cabral, who went to the 61st Cannes Film Festival as part of the Filipino delegation and castmember of "Serbis", the Brillante Mendoza film now in competition for the Palm d'Or and other awards, has been included in the roster of most beautiful women to walk the red carpet in this year's Cannes.
By Matt Noller The only film I managed to see on Day 4 was Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona, a long-form review of which should be posted soon. Hint: It's awesome. *** Serbis (Brillante Mendoza) I pulled my first D'Angelo of the festival by walking out of this miserable slog, which has been racking up the most universally vicious reviews of the festival. Set in a family-run porno theater
Here’s a clip from Brillante Mendoza’s “Serbis”, which premiered at the Cannes International Festival on May 18, 2008. The commentary is in Italian, but you can clearly hear the Tagalog dialogue. Tags: Brillante Mendoza, Filipino films, Filipino indie films, Philippine films, Philippine indie films, Philippine movies, Pinoy movie, Serbis
The cinema can be a place of fantasy and sometimes disreputable pleasure, but reality, as stubborn and hard to corral as the goat that intrudes toward the end of Brillante Mendoza's "Serbis," has a way of entering, like it or not.
Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendoza and the cast of his film "Serbis", which is competition for the Cannes Film Festival's prestigious Palm d'Or and other coveted awards, received a red carpet welcome in the French city on Sunday.
Film Reviews: Explicit fellatio, blocked toilets and a crudely exploded ass-cheek boil form some of the more unsavory elements of 'Service,' Brillante Mendoza's latest opus that revels in shock value.
