Pelikula@TitusBrandsma : Behind-the-Scenes
January 20, 2007, 1pm onwardsADMISSION IS FREE
pelikula@titusbrandsma is a free montly film screening with dialogue that features fine samples of world cinema. It's an offering of the Titus Brandsma Center-Media Program under the auspices of the Carmelites in the Philippines. This montly event is aimed at giving a meaningful experience for film enthusiasts.
Sequence: (with approx. 15mins. film dialogue in each line-up)
8 1/2 (1963- Italy/France) - Federico Fellini Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo
138 mins. In Italian/English/French/German with English subtitles.
One of the greatest films about film ever made, Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (Otto e Mezzo) turns one man's artistic crisis into a grand epic of the cinema. Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) is a film director, trying to relax after his last big hit. He can't get a moments peace, however, with the people who have worked with him in the past constantly looking for more work. He wrestles with his conscience, but is unable to come up with a new idea. While thinking, he starts to recall major happenings in his life, and all the women he has loved and left. An autobiographical film of Fellini, about the trials and tribulations of film making.
8 1/2 is included in the book 1001 Movies You Should See Before You Die.
Awards/Nominations:
Winner, 1964 Oscar Awards, USA - Best Costume Design, Black-and-White, Foreign Language Film; Nominated, Oscar 1964 Oscar Awards - Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White, Director, Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written Directly for the Screen; Nominated, 1964 BAFTA Awards - Best Film from any Source; Winner, 1964 Bodil - Best European Film; Nominated, 1964 Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures; Winner,1964 Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Silver Ribbon Best Cinematography, B/W, Director, Original Story, Producer,Score, Screenplay, Supporting Actress (Sandra Milo); Winner, 1966 Kinema Junpo Awards - Best Foreign Language Film, Foreign Language Film Director; Winner, 1963 Moscow International Film Festival - Grand Prix; Winner, 1963 National Board of Review, USA - Best Foreign Language Film; Winner, 1963 New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Foreign Language Film
Making Group Sex or How To make Something Out of Nothing , Short Film (2005-Philippines) - Jerrold Tarog Cast: Mary Rose Solina (as HERSELF), Marvie Agcaoili (as HERSELF), Warren Santiago (as WALTER), Pops Cayton (as HERSELF), Bea Araño (as TRACY), Jerrold Tarog (as DAVID), Paola Aseron (as DAVID'S GIRLFRIEND), Joseph Janer (as ROBERT)
13 mins. In Filipino & English.
A group of idealistic, amateur filmmakers set out to shoot a short comedy called Group Sex in the hopes of attracting major producers and competing in film festivals. Things begin to fall apart when key production members start disappearing for reasons that vary from the mundane to the bizarre. The film documents the group's failure based on extensive preproduction footage shot by the crew.
Jerrold Tarog started as a musician, pounding on the keys all through elementary and banging on the drums from high school to early college. He took his love for music to the next level by studying Music Composition at the University of the Philippines College of Music. He dove deep into the craft, learning about form, textures and colors while simultaneously moving out of it by assimilating rituals into his compositions. As more and more theatrics made their way to his music, a quote by Stanley Kubrick gave what probably was the final push for him to be involved in filmmaking: "Film…should be more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. "Everything changed after that as he began taking film courses along with his music studies. He spent as much time inside the cinema as he did in the listening library. As a result of all these, he is currently a freelance film scorer ("Kubrador," "Twilight Dancers," "Mga Pusang Gala," "Kaleldo,"
"Siquijor: Mystic Island," and "Masahista," among others) while writing, directing, editing and scoring his own digital films in his free time. It's all been short films so far but, with a little luck, he hopes to tackle his first full-length film very soon. Jerrold's pretty sure it's not going to be a musical.
FILMOGRAPHY:
Dito-Doon 2002 / 17mins
Shy Type 2003 / 8mins
Special Batchoy (work in progress)
Huling Hapunan 2004 / 15mins
Love & Glances 2004 / 4mins
Haunted 2004 / 8mins
Attack Rate 2004 / 60secs
Making Group Sex 2005 / 14mins
Carpool 2006/10 mins.
Day for Night (Nuit américaine, La) (1973-France/Italy) - François Truffaut Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Valentina Cortese, Dani, Alexandra Stewart, Jean-Pierre Aumont
115 mins. In French & English with English subtitles.
La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous tribute to the communal insanity of making a movie. The film details the making of a family drama called "Meet Pamela" about the tragedy that follows when a young French man introduces his parents to his new British wife. Truffaut gently satirizes his own films with "Meet Pamela"'s overwrought storyline, but the real focus is on the chaos behind the scenes. One of the central actresses is continually drunk due to family problems, while the other is prone to emotional instability, and the male lead (Truffaut regular Jean-Pierre Leaud) starts to act erratically when his intermittent romance with the fickle script girl begins to fail. In addition to all this personal drama, the film is besieged by technical problems, from difficult tracking shots to stubborn animal actors. The inspiration for future satires of movie-making from Living in Oblivion to Irma Vep.
Day for Night is included in the book 1001 Movies You Should See Before You Die.
Awards/Nominations:
Winner, 1974 Oscar Awards - Best Foreign Language Film; Nominated, 1974 Oscar Awards, USA - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Valentina Cortese), Director, Writing, Original Screenplay; Winner, 1974 BAFTA Awards- Best Direction, Film, Best Supporting Actress; Winner, French Syndicate of Cinema Critics - Critics Award Best Film; Nominated, 1974 Golden Globes, USA - Golden Globe Best Foreign-Language Foreign Film, Supporting Actress - Motion Picture; Winner, 1974 National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA - Best Director, Film, Supporting Actress; Winner, New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Director, Film, Supporting Actress
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991-USA) - Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola (documentary footage) Cast: Sam Bottoms, Marlon Brando, Colleen Camp, Eleanor Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola
96 mins.
An intimate look at the making of Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 classic Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse combines the usual documentary interviews with outtakes from the film and rare documentary footage, some shot on the set by Eleanor Coppola. Not long after the arrival of Coppola and crew in the Philippines, the shooting schedule begins spiraling out of control; the film's cost has soon far surpassed the original budget, with the ending still unwritten. As the problems mount, from lead Martin Sheen's heart attack to the disappearance of several helicopters needed for a scene (because they went to fight in nearby war), the making of the film begins to frighteningly resemble its subject - an unending tale of madness and obsession in the jungle. The film provides a remarkably immediate look at the filmmaking process and the personalities involved, especially Coppola, who publicly acts the autocrat but privately proclaims his belief that he is
making an awful film, and Marlon Brando, whose rambling mumble improvisations are among the documentary's highlights. Even more impressively, the documentary explores how, despite the chaotic environment, the filmmakers somehow managed to produce an acclaimed, lasting work of art.
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse is included in the book 1001 Movies You Should See Before You Die.
Awards/Nominations:
Winner, 1992 American Cinema Editors, USA - Best Edited Documentary; Nominated, 1992 Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary/Actuality; Winner, 1992 Emmy Awards - Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Directing, Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Picture Editing; Nominated, Emmy Outstanding Individual Achievement - Informational Programming - Writing, Outstanding Informational Special; Winner, 1992 International Documentary Association - IDA Award; Winner, 1993 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Documentary; Winner, 1991 National Board of Review, USA - Best Documentary
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