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Shorts! 17 Aug 2013 | 03:02 pm
So we did it again. Last August 12, we showed ten short films of varied appreciative levels—but nonetheless, together, they spoke volumes about how much we are trying to do to create a grassroots comm...
The Birds of Julia, The Flowers of Susan 17 Aug 2013 | 02:48 pm
Last Friday afternoon, we saw the opening of a twin painting exhibit by two members of the otherwise musical Vista family. The exhibit, titled Birds & Flowers, is exactly that—a show of paintings in a...
Throwing Off the Philistines 3 Aug 2013 | 04:38 pm
“Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.” ~ Albert Camus To understand the passi...
Snark Tales 27 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
Faithful readers of the newspapers I write for may have noticed that, save for the rare occasions when I could bring myself up to the task of column-writing, I have not published anything for the long...
The Passionate Strangers 1 Jun 2013 | 10:03 pm
I've heard of The Passionate Strangers (1966) since I first began taking an interest in the works of the later director and National Artist for Film Eddie Romero -- and especially after being told tha...
Notes on a Melancholic Night 1 Jun 2013 | 12:03 am
1. I just came from the first run-through rehearsals of Elsa Martinez Coscolluela's play In My Father's House, which is being directed by the great Amiel Leonardia -- a homecoming to Silliman for thi...
Eddie Romero, 1924-2013 28 May 2013 | 07:17 pm
The photo below with National Artist for Film Eddie S. Romero was taken only last February, and he was such in high spirits when we visited him. His death thus comes as a surprise. How does deal with ...
Daft Punk Orange Latte Tuesday 28 May 2013 | 04:12 pm
I have been meaning to do this -- to blog consistently -- but I harbor excuses which teem by the thousands every single day. Foremost of which is that I have been quite busy, and Facebook and Tumblr a...
Capturing the Green Light 26 May 2013 | 05:33 pm
I loved every bright, love-struck, imperfect frame of Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. How can I not love it? It's knowing anachronism, its lyrical madness, its jo...
Time. It Bends. 1 May 2013 | 05:44 pm
Richard Linklater's Before Sunrise (1995). Richard Linklater's Before Sunset (2004).
