Juan Night Stand sa CineKatipunan

Mag-Juan Night Stand na sa bisperas ng araw ng mga Puso!

Ikaw ba ay nalolongkot at walang makausap? Pwes, sugod na sa
Cinekatipunan at maki-Juan Night Stand sa mga pelikula na
kinatatampukan ng ating paboritong indie film hero, si Rox Lee!

Silipin ang masayang mundo ni Roxlee at ng Sinekalye sa mga pelikulang
"Juan Gulay", tungkol sa isang vegetarian na kumakain lamang ng karne
tuwing Mahal na Araw; "Juan Toga", isang gradweyt na nagkasakit nang
sinuot ang kanyang toga; "Juan Gapang"; isang mamang pagapang-gapang
sa Maynila upang hanapin ang kanyang destiny; "Juan Orasan", isang
manggagawang galit sa bundy clock; at "Juan Kaliwa", tungkol sa isang
mama na nakipagtalik sa puno bago tumungo sa polluted na lungsod.
Ipapalabas sa ika-13 ng Pebrero ang programa. Lahat ng mga pelikulang
tampok sa gabing ito ay katha ng mga kasapi ng Sinekalye.

Ang Sinekalye ay isang grupo ng mga independent filmmakers, visual
artists at musicians na nagnanais palawakin ang impluwensiya ng
independently- produced, Proudly-Philippine made na art sa Pilipinas.
Kasama sa vision na ito ay dalhin ang sining sa sambayanan- at saan pa
ba pinakamainam na abutin ang sambayanan kundi sa kalye? Mula Leyte
hanggang Mountain Province hanggang Singapore, bitbit lamang ang LCD
projector, mga pelikula, at isang telang puti upang paglapatan ng mga
gumagalaw na imahe, naipararanas ng Sinekalye sa ating mga kababayan
ang kapangyarihan ng sining. Libre ang lahat ng palabas at mga
workshop, na itinatanghal sa kalsada, sa basketball court, sa parking
lot, sa bundok, at kung saan-saan pa. Kaakibat ito ng paniniwala ng
Sinekalye na ang sining ay para pagsilbihan ang masa at pasayahin ang
buhay.

Magkakaroon din ng pagkakataong makilala si RoxLee at mapanuod siya sa
isang natatanging musical number. Kaya ano pang inaantay niyo?
Makipagtalik sa sining ngayong araw ng mga puso at baka mahanap niyo
na ang tru lab niyo! Free admission ito kaya walang palusot!

Ang programa ng Sinekalye Films ay ongoing sa Cinekatipunan ng Mag:net
Katipunan tuwing Martes/ Huwebes, ika-5 ng hapon buong Pebrero. Ang
mga filmmaker ay dadalo sa pagpapalabas. Kung kayo ay may mga
katanungan makipag-ugnayan na lamang sa Cinekatipunan o sa Sinekalye c/o
Ruel Lozendo(0917-2407911) . Ang Cinekatipunan ay dinaraos bago ang mga
pagtatanghal ng mga emerging at sikat na musicians sa Pilipinas. Ang
Mag:net Café ay nasa Katipunan Avenue, harap ng Miriam College at
Ateneo University. Maari rin kontakin ang Mag:net Katipunan sa
www.magnet.com. ph o sa telepono 929-3191.

Kitakits! Pwede magdala ng date/nililigawan/ papakasalan. At kung
single, magsuot ng pulang laso o necktie!

NCCA screenings

Resident NCCA (National Commission for Culture and the Arts) film scholar/historian Teddy Co plays movie-mix-master- DJ on February 13, Tuesday at the NCCA in Intramuros by programming a potent, evil twin bill of the celebrated hidden classic TERROR IS A MAN, directed by legendary national artist filmmaker Gerardo de Leon, and the more recent internationally- acclaimed feature SA ILALIM NG COGON, directed
by Rico Maria Ilarde. TERROR screens at 1PM, while COGON follows at 3PM. Admission is FREE.

Gerardo de Leon, affectionately referred to as "Manong Gerry" within the industry, is the only director in the Philippines to have won the FAMAS Award for Best Director three consecutive times: in 1960, 1961 and 1962. He is also the most-awarded director in the history of the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences: 7 awards. Despite dabbling in the cinematographic field of the "genre film," de
Leon is renowned for creating some of the most finely-crafted Filipino films of his or of any era. A lasting testament to his legacy is that a number of his films have been extensively distributed and released on video around the world.

SA ILALIM NG COGON, meanwhile, is the very first Filipino film in history to win Best Picture at an international fantastic film festival (2005 Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre, Argentina). It competes again this March in South America in the capital of Uruguay, the city of Montevideo.

While at the NCCA, take a magical mystery tour through Cannes Film Festival-winning filmmaker Raymond Red's splendid exhibit/installatio n KAMERA OBSCURA. Enjoy all the attractions during NCCA's Philippine Arts Festival!

The NCCA is located at 633 NCCA Building, General Luna Street,
Intramuros, Manila, very close to the San Agustin Church.
Trunklines: (632) 527-2192 / (632) 527-2202 / (632) 527-2210 / (632)
527-2195-97 / (632) 527-2217-19. Website: http://www.ncca. gov.ph/

GAWAD CCP PARA SA ALTERNATIBONG PELIKULA AT VIDEO

IKA-19 GAWAD CCP PARA SA ALTERNATIBONG PELIKULA AT VIDEO
February 13 – 16, 2007 at the CCP Dream Theater (Tanghalang Manuel Conde)

ADMISSION IS FREE!

13 Feb/Tue

1PM
Short Feature Entries 1:
Doghouse / Jose / Litanya / Saling Pusa / Lapis at Papel / Impen /
Malas / Bestfriends / Carpool / Pagbugtaw (Waking Up) / Kariton /
Ang Kapalaran ni Virgin Mario / Ikasiyam na Palapag (Ninth Floor) /
Kung ang Tula ay Pwedeng Pambili ng Lalaki / Tatlong Piso / Ang
Pagbabalik

4PM
Documentary Entries 1:
Piso at Monumento / Buhay sa Patay / Bunker O: Sumirib Plus / Ciao
Gian Luca! / Making Group Sex / Ruta ni Ka Roda / Buhay Bangkero /
Graveyard Shift / Medalawna / Sinulog for Beginners / Batang Ballroom

7PM
Opening Film:
BEHIND IMAHE NASYON
By Jon Red


14 Feb/Wed

10AM
Short Feature Entries 2:
Takipsilim / Klepto / Pinakamagandang Pelikula / One-Man Show /
Adam's Family / Eros / Manyika (Doll) / Yayay / Misteryo ng Hapis
(Sorrowful Mystery) / Lababo (Kitchen Sink)

1PM
Documentary Entries 2:
Ossie: A Sinulog Photographer** / Musika at Bulag / Boxingera /
Mama/San / Portrait: Rediscovering A Filipino Film Classic / Sa
Pusod ng Bundok / Sa Villa Cristo Rey / Sa Kanlungan ni Ina **

4PM
Short Feature Entries 3:
Tagapagligtas / Inertia / Lakaran

7PM
Animation Entries:
Target / Spider's Thread / Dok / Egg-O / Ang Pagkaplag / Row your
Boat / Dream Systems
A Day In The Life Of Gloria Arroyo / Buhay Bato d/w New Animation
from Indonesia from hellofest (Jakarta)


15 Feb/Thu

10AM
Documentary Entries 3:
Bantay Riles / Kunyang / Sa Patay, sa buhay (In Death, In life) / Da
Dou Sai Mau (WTO, Ibasura!; Junk WTO!) / Lukso

1PM
Short Feature Entries 4:
Wish Ko Lang / Gabon (Cloud) / Sikolohikal na Armas ni Juan dela
Cruz / OFW - Bagong Bayani o Baliw na Bayani / Dead Letter / Geegee
at Waterina / Hinagap

4PM
Documentary Entries 4:
Memories of the Sea / Walai ** / Syokoy**

7PM
Experimental Entries:
Sakdal Laya / Lang / It Feels Good To Be Alive / Cuatro / WWIII /
Makibaka Wag Matakot / Transcendental Progression / Simula / Mga
Bagay na may Pakpak / Sa Pagdating sa Bawat Sandali ng Mga
Bangungot / Doble Vista / Mr. Holiday Wants To Die / Spill / Attack
Rate / Revolt of the Hymen


16 Feb/Fri

10AM
Short Feature Entries 5:
Maria Milagros Barborosa / Alagwa (Breaking Free) / Ang Obrang 'Di
Tapos / Murphy's Law

7PM
Awards Ceremony


FREE ADMISSION!

For more information, please call CCP Media Arts at 8321125 locals
1702, 1704 & 1705 or email film@culturalcenter.gov.ph.

New Zealand Film Festival

The Embassy of New Zealand , the Philippines- New Zealand Business Council and the UP Film Institute present the New Zealand Film Festival 2007 from Feb 12 to 15.

Screening schedule is as follows:

Feb 12 Mon
5 p.m. The World's Fastest Indian
7:30 p.m. Sione's Wedding

Feb 13 Tue
4 p.m. Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
5 p.m. No. 2
7:30 p.m. Whale Rider

Feb 14 Wed
2 p.m. The World's Fastest Indian
5 p.m. Sione's Wedding
7:30 p.m. Whale Rider

Feb 15 Thu
4 p.m. Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
5 p.m. In My Father's Den
7:30 p.m. No. 2

Each screening daily at 5 and 7:30 p.m. and on Wednesday at 2 p.m.
will be preceded by a short film.

All films in exhibition are in 35mm print. Admission is free.


Some notes and descriptions for the must-see films:

Feature Films

Sione's Wedding
Four Samoan guys are banned from their best friend's wedding unless they each find the right girl to take to the nuptials and put an end to their remarkable record of ruining every marriage ceremony they attend.
Nominated for Ten Major Awards including Best Picture-2006 New Zealand Screen Awards
Direction: Chris Graham. Screenplay: James Griffin, Oscar Kightley. Cast: Oscar Kightley, Robbie Magasiva, Shimpal Lelisi, Iaheto Ah Hi, Teuila Blakely, Madeleine Same, David Fane, Pua Magasiva, David van Horn, Nathaniel Lees, Maryjane McKibbin-Schwenke, Ana Tuigamala.
2006 97 minutes 35mm color

Whale Rider
A feisty little girl bucks tradition in an attempt to become the first female chief of a Maori tribe.
Winner of People's Choice Award -2002 Toronto IFF; Audience Award-2003 Sundance FF; Audience Award-2003 Rotterdam IFF; Best Foreign Film-2004 Independent Spirit Awards; Best Picture-2003 New Zealand Film and Television Awards among over 50 awards and distinctions including Oscar Nomination for Best Actress for Keisha Castle-Hughes- 2004 Academy Awards
Direction and Screenplay from Witi Ihimaera's novel: Niki Caro. Cast: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Rawiri Paratene, Vicky Haughton, Cliff Curtis, Rawinia Clarke.
2002 101 minutes 35mm color

No. 2
A matriarch puts on a big feast for her family to name her successor.
Winner of Audience Award-2006 Sundance FF; Winner of Best Original Music, Best Actress for Ruby Dee, Best Supporting Actor for Rene Naufahu, Best Supporting Actress for Mia Blake plus more nominations including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay-2006 New Zealand Screen Awards
Direction and Screenplay: Toa Fraser. Cast: Ruby Dee, Tuva Novotny, Taungaroa Emile, Xavier Horan, Rene Naufahu.
2006 94 minutes 35mm color

In My Father's Den
A disillusioned war journalist is implicated in a teenage girl's mysterious disappearance.
Winner of International Critics Prize-2004 Toronto IFF; Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay-2005 New Zealand Screen Awards among more awards and distinctions including Best Actor for Matthew Macfadyen, Best Actress for Emily Barclay, Best Supporting Actor for Colin Moy, Best Supporting Actress for Jodie Rimmer
Direction and Screenplay from Maurice Gee's book: Brad McGann. Cast: Matthew Macfadyen, Miranda Otto, Emily Barclay, Colin Moy.
2004 126 minutes 35mm color
For mature viewing with sexual content, language,some violence and drug use

The World's Fastest Indian
The true story of Burt Munro-the New Zealand man who spent decades perfecting his classic 1920 Indian motorcycle. At age 68, he risked everything, including his own life, taking the bike to the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to break the world speed record.
Winner of Seven Major Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Actor for Anthony Hopkins-2006 New Zealand Screen Awards; Official Selection for Golden Seashell-2005 San Sebastian IFF
Direction and Screenplay: Roger Donaldson. Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Diane Ladd, Paul Rodriguez, Aaron Murphy, Annie Whittle.
2005 126 minutes 35mm color


Documentary Feature

Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill
A documentary feature by Sam Neill and Judy Rymer
A century of New Zealand cinema is recounted in a personal journey through the childhood and memories of one of its key actors.
1995 56 minutes 35mm color


Short Film Selection

Blue Willow (Veialu Aila-Unsworth, 2005, 14 minutes)
An animated fable haunts with its tale of love and betrayal.

No Ordinary Sun (Jonathan Brough, 2004, 15 minutes)
A man confronts his fears against the majestic backdrop of the Antarctic.

Infection (James Cunningham, 2000, 9 minutes)
A mutant hero. A virtual bank heist. A digital action thriller. The perfect digital crime.

The Lounge Bar (Don McGlashan-Harry Sinclair, 1989, 12 minutes)
A bizarre web of fate links a man and a woman meeting for the first time to a singer, his song, his sideburns and bell bottoms.

Shadow over the Sun (Rachel Douglas, 2006, 8 minutes)
A new mom in colonial New Zealand is visited by a tui in her garden in anticipation of fear and hope for a new life.

Hotel Hawkestone (Sebastian Doyle-Jonathan Smith, 1992, 14 minutes)
An Asian woman books a holiday in a New Zealand hotel yet to be built.

The Grocer's Apprentice (Sebastian Doyle, 1997, 11 minutes)
A grocer leaves his store in the care of an errant assistant. Based on the Goethe classic.

Two Cars, One Night (Taika Waititi, 2003, 11 minutes)
One night outside a rural pub, three children in two cars await their parents.


University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools )
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road , UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)

THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN

12 – 17 February 2007
(Monday to Saturday)


Monday, 12 February
Maya Deren and Alexander Hamid Experimental Short Films
(S-Express Curated by Alexis Tioseco moved to February 28)


Tuesday, 13 February
Sinekalye 2 -Juan Night Stand
Roxlee: JUAN GAPANG (1989/6 minutes/Super 8)
Ray Gibraltar & Rox Lee: JUAN TOGA (2003/6 minutes/16mm)
Bulan Luna and Roxl Lee: JUAN GULAY (2000/12 minutes/35 mm)
Lai Crisostomo & Rox Lee: JUAN KALIWA
Geraldine Borja Flores: JUAN ORASAN


Wednesday, 14 February
Films by Visual Artists?
Curated by Poklong Anading


Thursday, 15 February
Khavn dela Cruz:?Goodbye My Shooting Star (Paalam Aking Bulalakaw)
and John Red "Beyond IMAHE NASYON"


Friday, 16 February
Cinema One Originals Program
Sigfried Barros Sanchez: Anak ni Brocka (The Son of Lino Brocka)


Saturday, 17 February
Peter Chua: The Last Parian


Held Mondays to Saturdays at Mag:net Café Katipunan,
Cinekatipunan screenings start at 5:30 PM. While the
film screenings are free, viewers are encouraged to
make voluntary contributions for the honoraria of the
featured filmmakers. For questions or comments about
Cinekatipunan write to sinag_haraya@yahoo.com.
Cinekatipunan programs precede Mag:net Café's nightly
holding of Live Performances by well-known and
emerging bands and musicians. Mag:net Café is located
along Katipunan Avenue (fronting Miriam and Ateneo) in
Quezon City. For more inquiries please call 9293191 or
visit www.magnet.com.ph.

Pelikula@TitusBrandsma

Pelikula@TitusBrandsma: Kung Ayaw Mo Na Sa Akin

February 10, 2007, 1pm onwards

ADMISSION IS FREE

Sequence: (with approx. 15mins. film dialogue in each line-up)

Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio all'Italiana) (1961-Italy) - Pietro Germi
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo
Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro
105 mins. In Italian with English subtitles.

Ferdinando Cefalú (Marcello Mastroianni) would love to unload his demanding,
sex-starved, monumentally unappealing wife, Rosalia (Daniela Rocca), but he
can't take the legal means open to his American counterparts. Ferdinando
can, however, kill off his wife and receive a light sentence...provided he
catches the lady committing adultery. The trick now is to make his
plate-of-potatoes spouse attractive enough so that some other man will
accommodate Ferdinando by cuckolding him.

Awards/Nominations:
Winner, 1963 Oscar Awards - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written
Directly for the Screen. Nominated, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Marcello
Mastroianni),Director; Winner, 1964 BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor.
Nominated, Best Film from any Source, Best Foreign Actress (Daniela Rocca);
Winner, 1962 Cannes Film Festival - Best Comedy (Prix de la meilleure
comédie). Nominated, Golden Palm; Nominated, 1963 Directors Guild of
America , USA - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures;
Winner, 1963 Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor -
Musical/Comedy, Foreign-Language Foreign Film. Tied with The Best of Enemies
(1962).; Winner, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists - Silver
Ribbon Best Actor, Best Original Story


THE SUNFLOWER (2006-Philippines) - Bor G. Ocampo
Cast: Julia Clarete, Bor Ocampo
5 mins.

The Sunflower is about a man who has an eternal yearning to grow old with
the woman of his dream or that manna from heaven to whom he will unleash his
reservoir of affection. The film says that there's is glory after pain. or
is there really?

Filmmaker:
Bor believes that philosophy like art is life. He is pretentious. Bor does
what just pops in his mind. He is whimsical. He is a BA philo and theater
arts grad from the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is a starving
and budding filmmaker and will stop at nothing in order to realize his dream
of making it big in the industry. He took up digital filmmaking at the CCP
and took up subjects at UP Film Institute. He is busy acting in various film
and tv projects and teaching koreans how to speak proper english. he hates
this job but does it anyway because he could always use the money for his
next film and could also scout a nice korean ass for his future porno
movies.Sometimes he tries to be funny but he is still corny.Currently he is
on his pre-production stage for his next film.


FREE MERIENDA


Two for the Road (1967-UK) - Stanley Donen
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Albert Finney, Eleanor Bron, William Daniels,
Gabrielle Middleton
111 mins.

On their third identical voyage from London to the Riviera, Joanna Wallace
(Audrey Hepburn) and husband Mark (Albert Finney) explore their 12-year
marriage in a series of wry and illuminating flashbacks. They reminisce
about the glorious beginning of their love affair, the early years of
marriage and the events that led to their subsequent infidelities. As they
try to understand their relationship, they must accept how they have changed
if they are to rekindle their original love.

Awards/Nominations:
Nominated, 1968 Oscar Awards - Best Writing, Story and Screenplay - Written
Directly for the Screen; Nominated, 1968 BAFTA Awards - Best British
Screenplay; Winner, 1968 Cinema Writers Circle Awards, Spain - Best Foreign
Film; Nominated, 1968 Directors Guild of America, USA - Outstanding
Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures; Nominated, 1968 Golden Globes,
USA - Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy, Original Score; Winner,
1967 San Sebastián International Film Festival - Golden Seashell; Winner,
1968 Writers' Guild of Great Britain - Merit Scroll Best British Comedy
Screenplay, British Original Screenplay


The Classic (Keulraesik)
(2003-South Korea) - Jae-young Kwak
Cast: Son Ye-Jin, Cho Seung-Woo, Cho In-Sung
127 mins. In Korean with English subtitles

Ji-hyae (Son Ye-jin of Chihwaseon) is a shy college student who has a crush
on theater student Sang-min (Jo In-seong). Unfortunately, her friend
Soo-gyung (Lee Sang-in) has already begun dating the guy. Ji-hyae helps her
friend compose romantic e-mails to Sang-min and sometimes socializes with
them, but feels like a third wheel. Sang-min seems to like her, but
Soo-gyung insists that it's only because Ji-hyae is her friend. Ji-hyae is
clearing out her family's home when she finds a box of love letters and an
old journal and begins reading about her mother, Sung Joon-hee (also played
by Son), the granddaughter of a wealthy politician, and her forbidden
dalliance with Oh Joon-ha (Cho Seung-woo of Chunhyang), a poor boy from the
same hometown. The two developed a romantic infatuation, but Joon-hee's
father had already planned for her to marry Tae-soo (Lee Gi-woo), the son of
a business associate. The situation grew more complicated when Tae-soo
befriended Joon-ha at school, and asked his help in winning over Joon-hee.
This tale is intercut with Ji-hyae's story, set in the present day.

Nomination:
Nominated, 2004 Hong Kong Film Awards - Best Asian Film



For inquries/confirmation, call Bituin (726-6054), Eric (364-7955). Maxie (751-1169).

Website: www.pelikula-titusbrandsma.ph .

Pelikula@Titusbrandsma is a free monthly 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 monthly event
is aimed at giving a meaningful experience for film enthusiasts.

Artists at the UPFI

Film on National Artist Arturo Luz

In fitting commemoration of the National Arts Month, the UP Film Institute screens Ricky Orellana's documentary on National Artist Arturo Luz this Friday, 9 February 2007, at 5 p.m.

Entitled Lines of Vision, the film sketches a portrait of Arturo Luz through the medium of several voices. Dubbed as "a filmwork designed in the manner of a Luz painting," the Black Soup production with support from the Committee on Art Galleries of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts evokes "simple lines, vibrant relationships, and an unwavering sensitivity to its subject."

Lines of Vision leads a special selection of distinct screenings for the UP Film Institute Videotheque this February. It will be followed by Obrang Di Tapos-Rembrandt Vocalan's short film on National Artist Botong Francisco and Signed: Lino Brocka-the celebrated 1987 documentary by Christian Blackwood that won the Peace Film Award at Berlin.

Succeeding Fridays will respectively feature The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (Feb 16 Fri 5 p.m.) and National Artist Lamberto Avellana's film version of National Artist Nick Joaquin's A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino starring National Artist Daisy Avellana (Feb 23 Fri 5 p.m.).

To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute
e-group: upfilminstitute@yahoogroups.com

University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/International Association of Film and Television Schools)
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9262722 (Telefax)

Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille's the Cine Club

presents

BERNIE

a film by Albert Dupontel
(French version, with English subtitles)
film advisory warning: violent content
1996, 87 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)
Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film

Starring: Albert Dupontel (Bernie), Claude Perron (Marion), Roland Blanche (Willis), Hélène Vincent (The Mother), Catherine Samie (Mamoune Clermontf), and more

Genre: Drama, Black Comedy;

Critic Reviews:
" A hit French Cult movie " - Time Out Film Guide 13 (London - TimeOut.com)

" Abrasive score, augmented by screeching sound design, keeps the mood edgy and unpredictable ".
- LISA NESSELSON (Variety.com )

Synopsis:
A 30-year-old frustrated and neurotic orphan leaves the orphanage where he had stayed on to work having turned 18. His goal: to find out the true facts of his birth. Faced with the authorities' refusal to give him his dossier, he burgles the social welfare office and discovers the terrifying truth: He was found in a bin, probably dumped by his parents. Unable to accept this version he concocts another somewhat more fabulous scenario: His parents had fallen victim to a Mafia plot. He had been kidnapped and dumped in a garbage chute. Today, his parents are still alive, they need his help!


For more information, please contact:

Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail: info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

COMPOUND screening

"Compound" indie film opens on Feb.7 to 13,2007 @ Robinsons Galleria Ortigas

Independent Film Cooperative (IFC) and Robinsons Movieworld

present

INDIE SINE 2007

MTRCB R-18 [Strictly For Adults Only]

Featuring the Most Disturbing Psychological Thriller to Hit the Indie Circuit

COMPOUND
a Will Fredo film
February 7 to 13,2007
Robinsons Galleria Ortigas

Starring John Arcilla , Janet Russ, Jake Macapagal, and Liza Diño
Joan Palisoc , Perry Escaño, Lily Chu , Marq Dollentes

Music by Bob Aves
Cinematography by Gene Gallardo, PJ Sta. Maria, Will Fredo
Produced by Greg Macaraeg, Medwin Garcia, Joan T. Manalang, George
Sommerrock

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
MTRCB R-18 [Strictly For Adults Only]
What are the critics saying about COMPOUND?

Edward Jordon, V.P. of Acquisitions, Film-Source Co.:
COMPOUND is a complex thriller that brilliantly reinvents itself as
the story unfolds. Just when you think you know where the movie is
going, the writer/director pulls the rug out from under you. This is
definitely a most auspicious debut from Will Fredo. His images will
remain with you for a long time.

Cleveland International Film Festival:
A stunning visual achievement, COMPOUND is a contemporary thriller
that deals with the complexities of love, wealth, and fear. A
perfectly unexpected and well-executed ending make this a film not to
be missed.

Tito Genova Valiente, Business Mirror:
"Compound" is not a film easy to love, and yet it is not a film easy
to hate. One thing is sure: it is not a film that can be dismissed
easily.
...The film allows us a peek into a middle-class paranoia...
There is, perhaps, no other Filipino film that approaches what
Christian Metz, the film semiotician, called the "aggregate, plural
property" of cinema as a medium than this film entitled "Compound.

Paul Daza, Philippine Daily Inquirer:
" MELROSE PLACE " As seen through the unflinching eyes of David Lynch
and Mike de Leon.
The movie's technical aspects, especially the lighting, camerawork,
sound and editing, are first-rate.
Also worthy of mention is the theme song of Bob Aves and Grace Nono,
which underscores the characters' mournful inability to find love and
happiness.

Joe Bilancio, Program Director, Reel Affirmations International Film
Festival:
COMPOUND is an independent gem. Well acted, well directed, and
inventive storytelling. Somehow Fredo and the cast are able to make
the film both plot driven AND character driven, a difficult feat for
any cast and crew.

David Corpuz, Mental Pornography:
While our minds are secured that we already knew the ending, we were
goddamn wrong. We're screwed. The director played with our mind and
he won.

The compound is the microcosm of the world we are living in. In the
compound, it's like every society's issue is present: drug addiction,
terrorism, homosexuality, greed for power and wealth, ignorance .. you
name it, it's in here.

Arcilla and Macapagal are noteworthy in their performances as
Virgilio and Jay, respectively. They deserve acting nominations, or
probably the trophy itself!
Rito Asilo, Philippine Daily Inquirer:

Arcilla and Macapagal are passionate actors with contrasting acting
styles, which work for their respective characters, but Diño and Chu
come up with the most informed performances in the ensemble --
particularly the former, who should get more roles in mainstream features.

SINEKALYE@CINEKATIPUNAN

February 2007, 5:30PM
Mag:net Cafe Katipunan

February 6, Tuesday
MGA UNANG OBRA: (Short Feature)
Simula by Ruelo Lozendo
Obra by Chris Manjares
Ang Obrang Di Tapos by Rembrandt Vocalan

February 13, Tuesday
JUAN NIGHT STAND: ("Juan" Series)
Juan Gulay by Bulan Luna & Rox Lee
Juan Toga by Ray Gibraltar & Rox Lee
Juan Kaliwa by Lai Crisostomo & Rox Lee
Juan Orasan by Geraldine Borja Flores
Juan Gapang by Rox Lee

February 22, Thursday
NEW DOCS:(Documentary)
Perya by Ligaya Domingo
Huna-huna by Wilfred Galila
Sedey by Tommy Hafalla & Ruel Bimuyag

February 27, Tuesday
X for 4: (eXperimental)
Shaman by Ruelo Lozendo
True Blue by Luis Quirino
Huikotekan by Tad Ermitano
Lizard by Rox Lee

SHOWING THIS WEEK AT CINEKATIPUNAN

Monday to Saturday, 5-10 February 2007

Monday, 5 Feburary

Singaporean Program
Featuring Martyn See’s SINGAPORE REBEL and SPEAKERS’ CORNERED
To Be Presented by Nai Rui Chng

Martyn See is a Singaporean filmmaker most famous for making the 26-minute documentary film Singapore Rebel, about Dr. Chee Soon Juan, the leader of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP). Before this he has worked as editor on the movie Mee Pok Man and the documentary Samurai: Behind the Blade.

In March 2005, government movie censors ordered the withdrawal of his film from the Singapore International Film Festival. See was put under police investigation by the Singapore government, and threatened with prosecution under the Films Act, requiring him to surrender his video camera, taped footage of the documentary and materials related to the production. See could face up to two years in jail or a fine of up to S$100,000.

Martyn See is now currently making a new 49 minute documentary on Singapore's ex-political prisoner Said Zahari, who spent a total of 17 years in detention without trial.


Tuesday, 6 February
SINEKALYE 1 – MGA UNANG OBRA
Ruelo Lozendo: SIMULA
Chris Manjares: OBRA
Rembrandt Vocalan: ANG OBRANG DI TAPOS

(To be followed by a performance by Dayuhan)

Ruelo Lozendo: SIMULA (2006/10
minutes/16mm/Experimental Narrative/Filipino with
English subtitles)

Synopsis: A worm enters a man's ear and lives inside his body. As the worm's metamorphosis unfolds, the man experiences his own transformation.

Festival Screenings: 19th Singapore International Film Festival; VC Film Fest 2006, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival; 13th Pinoy Visions Online Movie Festival 2006

You may visit the film's website:
http://web.mac.com/ruelozendo/iWeb/simula


Wednesday, 7 February
Richie Quirino and Collis Davis: PINOY JAZZ
The Story of Jazz in the Philippines

(The screening of PINOY JAZZ will be followed by a
Johnny Alegre Trio performance with open jam)

“Whatever it is you choose to play, don’t lose the Filipino soul.”
Lito Molina

Based on Richie Quirino’s book, Pinoy Jazz Traditions, which won the 2004 National Book Award in the music category, PINOY JAZZ is a 58-minute video documentary that provides the first-ever documentation of the development of jazz in the Philippines, from its infancy in 1898, when Filipinos were first exposed to Black music performed by African-American soldiers, to its present-day maturity in which musicians are
turning to indigenous sources for inspiration. Incorporating historical still photography, turn-of-the century film footage, maps, old recordings, present-day performances and interviews with veteran and contemporary musicians, the video presents an eye-opening view into an almost-forgotten history of the art of jazz as it developed in the Philippines over the last century.

Video Production Credits

Produced by Richie Quirino, Collis Davis, Gus Lagman
Narrated by Wayne Enage
Artistic Direction by Richie Quirino
Directed by Collis Davis
Edited by Collis Davis and Richie Quirino
Foreign Correspondent - Prof. Ron Nethercutt
Audio Mastering - Noel De Brackinghe, Sweet Spot Studio
Cameraman - Collis Davis (Okara Video)


Thursday, 8 February
Mark and Joaquin Misa: SA KABILANG DAKO PROGRAM

San-Pits Productions would like to invite you to SA KABILANG DAKO-- an independent docu-experimental digital film exhibit featuring two inspired works by cousins Marc Misa and Joaquin Misa. The featured short films are:

LARO SA QUIAPO (20 minutes)
Laro Sa Quiapo is a glimpse into a day in the life of urban poor children who have made Quiapo their playground. Quiapo is associated with the Black Nazarene, amulet and herbal medicine vendors, fortune tellers, and cheap DVDs in the Muslim quarter. Nick Joaquin once called it the armpit of Manila, for indeed, the filth and stench of the streets of Quiapo make it a harsh environment in which to grow up. Some children, however, have managed to claim this piece of earth to have something like childhood.

Directed by Joaquin Misa
Edited by Marc Misa

EYE CANDY POETRY (30 minutes)
Eye Candy Poetry is the beat of the city. These experimental short films are created with the muddled dispositions and inspirations that roam the streets of Manila and its people. With several different rivers of undertones, each image or segment is free to be interpreted by the viewer according to whatever he or she experiences it to be. Using a particular recipe of camera techniques and playful editing, Eye Candy
Poetry manifests a flavor of its own and utilizes this taste to fascinate, haunt, or even pleasure the visual palette of the audience. Eye Candy Poetry is a continuous endeavor that will always evolve according to the tides of experience and thought.

Created by Marc Misa and Adelle Victoria.
Directed by Marc Misa
Produced by Marc Misa
Edited by Marc Misa


Friday, 9 February
Ditsi Carolino: RILES
(Philippines/Documentary/2002/Digital/70 mins)

From the first astonishing shots of men, women and children casually moving their belongings from the railroad tracks seconds in front of an onrushing train, Ditsi Carolino makes the viewer feel completely at home in what should be the most alien of environments. Focused on a couple, the film settles into the rhythm of life along the tracks in Manila with an intimacy that never feels intrusive. RILES is a humbling and indelible portrait of human dignity, resilience and community.


Saturday, 10 February
CAMPUS-BASED Filmmakers
UP Sining at Lipunan (UP SILIP) with UP Cinema Arts
Society (UP CAST)

CINEMALAYA @ CANLUBANG

CINEMALAYA @ CANLUBANG

kwento natin... pelikula nila...
Dlsu-canlubang auditorium
FEB. 5, 2007 (monday)

we're going to have three screenings:
8:00 am - 10:00 am
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

ORASYON (best short film)
by Direk Milo Tolentino

PARANG PELIKULA (best screenplay)
by Hubert Tibi

PUTOT (best direction)
by Emmanuel 'Jeck' Cogama

PUWANG (official selection)
by Anna Isabelle Matutina

tickets sold at Php 80 each..
limited slots only..

for more details pls. contact
09194852010
09166689400
09274793504
09274927976

BAYANI screening

BAYANI for Valentines

The UP Film Institute has the honor to bring back the first full-length feature film by Raymond Red-one of the icons of independent cinema movement in the country.

A chronicle of the turbulent chapter in Philippine nationhood, Bayani recounts the struggles of Andres Bonifacio, the Great Plebeian acknowledged as the foremost revolutionary figure in Philippine history.

The film screens this Saturday, 3 February 2007, at 2 and 5 p.m. and again on the following Saturday, 10 February 2007, at 2 p.m.

Admission is at a popular price. Further discount for bulk admissions awaits groups of 50 at the minimum.

Call cinema hotline: 9263640 or drop by the 2nd Floor Administrative Offices of the UP Film Institute along Magsaysay Avenue, UP Diliman, Quezon City.

Bayani forms part of the UP Film Institute diverse lineup of screenings for February in fitting observance of the month of hearts and the arts.

CINE at INSTITUTO CERVANTES: Ciclo AMOR

Comedies, dramas, passions, jealousy, indifference... Love and its multiple faces and expressions. Instituto Cervantes of Manila presents this February a cycle of four movies featuring different levels of love portrayed by several Spanish and Latin-American directors.

With the collaboration of Filmoteca MAE

All the films are in Spanish with English subtitles.
Free entrance


Ese oscuro objeto del deseo

Directed by Luis Buñuel
Duration: 103 min
Production: Francia, 1977

Cast:
Fernando Rey, Ángela Molina, Carole Bouquet, Julien Bertheau

In French with English subtitles

Date: February 3
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Strictly for Adults

Recounted in flashback to a group of railway travellers, the story wryly
details the romantic perils of Mathieu, a wealthy, middle-aged French
sophisticate who falls desperately in love with his 19-year-old former
chambermaid Conchita. Thus begins a surreal game of sexual cat-and-mouse,
with Mathieu obsessively attempting to win the girl's affections as she
manipulates his carnal desires, each vying to gain absolute control of the
other.


Secretos del corazón

Directed by M. Armendáriz
Duration: 101 min
Production: España, 1997

Cast:
Carmelo Gómez, Charo López, Silvia Munt, Vicky Peña, Andoni Erburu

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Date: February 10
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

A young boy's fascination with the deaths of several people close to him
sparks his growth from boyhood in this Spanish drama. The story takes place
during a vacation to the hometown of nine-year-old Javi and his brother
Juan's rural farming village in the early 1960s. Their father, they are
told, accidentally killed himself while cleaning his gun, and the room where
the death occurred has been declared off limits to the boys. *Secretos del
corazón* was the winner of four Goya Awards, as well as an Oscar nominee for
Best Foreign Language Film.


La virgen de la lujuria

Directed by Arturo Ripstein
Duration: 151 min
Production: México, 2002

Cast:
Ariadna Gil, Luis Felipe Tovar, Juan Diego, Julián Pastor, Patricia Reyes

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Date: February 17
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Strictly for Adults

Mexican director Arturo Ripstein's incredibly lush melodrama *The Virgin of
Lust* makes an ironic statement about a fundamental delusion in the hopes of
Communists to lift up the masses. Set mostly in a café in Vera Cruz, the
film centers upon Nacho (Luis Felipe Tovar), an unambitious worker who one
fateful night finds Lola, a mysterious and promiscuous political radical who
lives so far on the edge that she always seems on the threat of
self-destruction. Nacho, who is hopelessly attracted to her but too afraid
to act upon his impulses, takes her in, and soon the two find themselves in
a masochistic relationship.


En la ciudad

Directed by Cesc Gay
Duration: 110 min
Production: España, 2003

Cast:
Mónica López, Eduard Fernández, Leonor Watling, María Pujalte, Alex
Brendemühl, Vicenta N'Dongo, Chisco Amado

In Spanish with English subtitles.

Date: February 24
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Instituto Cervantes

Strictly for Adults

A movie depicting a sincere portrait of urban life in Barcelona. The story
moves around six friends whose sentimental lives are masked with hidden
relationships, fear in expressing sentiments, secrets and lies. Mario is a
serious architect married to Sara who keeps a secretive romance with a
colleague. Mario suspects it, but does not dare to speak about it. Irene and
Manu, on the other hand, seem to be a happy couple, but the truth is that
Irene is like a turtle succumbed in its shell and hides her feelings. Sofía
lives alone who fantasizes realities out of her dreams. And finally, Tomás
who also keeps a secret of a passionate adventure with a young girl. The
film boasts of a magnificent script and great performances by its actors
like Eduard Fernández who won two Best Supporting Actor Awards in Goya (the
Spanish Oscars) and in Spanish Actors Union. But the real standout here is
María Pujalte, as a sensitive woman addicted to romance.


Instituto Cervantes
855 Kalaw St., 1000 Ermita. Manila
Tel. (632) 526 1482 - 85
Fax (632) 526 1449

At the UPFI this February

At the UP Film Institute this February:


Feb 1 Thu

5 p.m. Cinema Australia: The Castle (@ the Videotheque)

7 p.m. Cinema Australia: Romper Stomper (@ the Videotheque)

7:30 p.m. Premiere: Rome & Juliet



Feb 2 Fri

5 p.m. Cinema Australia: Mullet (@ the Videotheque)

7 p.m. Cinema Australia: The Finished People (@ the Videotheque)

8:30 p.m. Cine al Fresco



Feb 3 Sat

10 a.m. {Proof}

2/5 p.m. Bayani



Feb 5 Mon

2/5/7 p.m. Tristan & Isolde



Feb 6 Tue

2/5/7 p.m. Tristan & Isolde



Feb 7 Wed

2 p.m. Lumayo Ka Man sa Akin

5 p.m. Tristan & Isolde

7:30 p.m. Cinema of Unease: A Personal Journey by Sam Neill

(New Zealand Filmfest Preview)**

8:30 p.m. No. 2 (New Zealand Filmfest Preview)



Feb 8 Thu

2/5 p.m. Tristan & Isolde

7 p.m. Premiere: Twilight Dancers (Uncut!)



Feb 9 Fri

5 p.m. onwards - Lines of Vision /Ang Obrang Hindi Tapos/The Wonderful,
Horrible

Life of Leni Riefenstahl (@ the Videotheque)

8:30 p.m. Cine al Fresco



Feb 10 Sat

2 p.m. Bayani

5 p.m. Hard Bullet

7 p.m. Secretary



Feb 12-15 Mon-Thu

2/5/7:30 p.m. New Zealand Film Festival 2007



Feb 16 Fri

5 p.m. onwards - Pink Year of the Fire Pig Special (@ the Videotheque)

8:30 p.m. Cine al Fresco



Feb 17 Sat

2/7 p.m. Secretary

5 p.m. Hard Bullet



Feb 19 Mon

7 p.m. Twilight Dancers (Uncut!)



Feb 20 Tue

5/7 p.m. Mowelfund Event



Feb 21 Wed

2 p.m. Date with the F4: Magic Kitchen

5 p.m. Date with the F4: Star Runner

7 p.m. Twilight Dancers (Uncut!)



Feb 22 Thu

5 p.m. Griffin & Phoenix

7 p.m. Twilight Dancers (Uncut!)



Feb 23 Fri

5 p.m. onwards - Signed: Lino Brocka/A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino (@
the Videotheque)

8:30 p.m. Cine al Fresco



Feb 24 Sat

2 p.m. Date with the F4: Sky of Love

5/7 p.m. Twilight Dancers (Uncut!)



Feb 26 Mon

2/7 p.m. Wicker Park

5 p.m. Lucky Number Slevin



Feb 27 Tue

2/7 p.m. Lucky Number Slevin

5 p.m. Happy Feet



Feb 28 Wed

2 p.m. Date with the F4: Sky of Love

5/7:30 p.m. Premiere: Seroks


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University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/International Association of Film and Television Schools)
Plaridel Hall, Ylanan Road, UP Diliman, Quezon City
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 2669, 2670; 9206863 (Telefax)
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