jürgen fauth's muckworld (Free subscription) | yesterday
As the 46th New York Film Festival slouches towards its final weekend — one more movie, one more party, and Catherine Deneuve in the flesh – it’s time for a little roundup. I’ve mainly posted capsules to Worldfilm, with the exception of Che, which is on track for my favorite of the year and required something [...]
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
Film News: Pic takes Golden Kinnaree for best film at fest -- The Columbian terrorist drama "PVC-1" by Spiros Stathoulopoulos won the Golden Kinnaree for best film at the Bangkok Intl Film Festival on Sunday night at the ceremony presided over by Princess Ubolratana.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Film News: Film unit nabs rights to Kurosawa's drama -- Regent Releasing has grabbed North American rights to Kiyoshi Kurosawa's family drama "Tokyo Sonata."
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Film News: Highlights include Kim's 'Weird,' 'Serbis' -- The 27th Vancouver Film Festival has unveiled the lineup for its Dragons & Tigers: The Cinemas of East Asia sidebar.
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
"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...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
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...
Filipina Soul (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
It’s an honor for three Filipino Films to be featured at the top film festival this side of the Atlantic. The Toronto International Film Festival, from September 4-13, 2008 usually features one film from the Philippines. This year, there are three, and one of them is already a classic. Bayan Ko: My Own Country/ Bayan [...]
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Friday, September 5-------- One of the first announcements of a US distribution deal was made today, on the first day of full out screenings here at the Toronto International Film Festival. Regent Releasin g , a leading independent U.S. read more
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
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.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Internationally acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Mendoza 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.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
I was on my way to a meeting at ABS-CBN just recently when, as I ascended the steps at the Mother Ignacia side gate, I saw a familiar figure wearing jeans and a striped-t-shirt, flipping through the pages of a newspaper.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
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.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 25/05/2008
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.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 24/05/2008
As the final day of the 61st Cannes Film Festival in France draws to a close on May 25, fans of actress Jaclyn Jose however can only hope that the actress, who has already been honored in France fifteen years ago, will finally bag an award this time around.
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
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
