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Critic After Dark
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| Url: | http://criticafterdark.blogspot.com/ |
| Author(s): | Noel Vera |
| Language: | English |
| Tags: | cinema, movies, Philippine |
| Description: | On Filpino films, world cinema, and other grotesqueries |
| Ratings |  (17 Ratings) |
| Popularity: | 293 Followers |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson)
| Animated, but with teethWho would have thought children's literature maverick Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach) and filmmaking oddball Wes Anderson (The Roya...more |
2009-12-19
Three by Nora: 'Merika (Gil Portes), Condemned, Bulaklak sa City Jail (both by Mario O'Hara)
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Nora Aunor in 'MerikaSo instead of wasting my time on an Avatar review, here's what I wrote for this week. Full text to be posted here (with additions, revisions, whatever).This |
2009-12-19
Still more Vancouver Festival Films (Oliviera, Hui) --and one Filipino (Ad. Castillo), just becaus
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Yang Ik Joon's Ddongpari (Breathless, 2009) does, at times, induce that eponymous state, especially when debt collector Sang Hoon (the director doing triple duty by also writing the film's script an |
2009-12-14
Planet 51 (Jorge Blanco, Javier Abad, 2009)
| The Ecch FilesPlanet 51 is basically your standard-issue brightly colored mostly flavorless computer animated 3-D feature. Its one semi-clever conceit: instead of an alien lost in a human world (ca...more |
2009-12-13
Lav Diaz's 'Melancholia' and the Maguindanao Massacre
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Violence is a part of the Filipino political landscape no matter who is president, no matter what political system he or she is operating under; the Maguindanao Massacre (or Ampatuan Massacre, as i...more |
2009-12-07
A Christmas Carol (Robert Zemeckis, 2009)
| A motion-captured Christmas/ Robert Zemeckis' A Christmas Carol (2009) opens with a beautifully textured leatherbound book, a watercolor illustration that morphs slowly into a horrifyingly textured...more |
2009-12-06
Johnny Delgado, 1948 - 2009
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Johnny Delgado, 1948 - 2009Juan Marasigan Feleo was born on February 29, a leap-year child, the son of director Ben Feleo and Victorina Marasigan. He had taken up banking and |
2009-11-21
Danny Deckchair (Jeff Balsmeyer, 2003)
| Up, up, and awayJeff Balsmeyer's Danny Deckchair (2003) rings one unusual variation on the meet-cute rom-com routine--instead of bumping into each other, or entangling each others' dog leashes, or ...more |
2009-11-21
Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)
| Tarantino's talkathonQuentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a clever melange of violence, suspense, slapstick, wit, movie references both arthouse and grindhouse, talk, talk, more talk, even m...more |
2009-11-14
More Vancouver Festival Films (Sebis; Face; Lebanon; NIght and Fog)
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Brillante Mendoza's SerbisDid I mention that almost nobody I talked to in the festival liked Kore-eda's Air Doll, not even |
2009-11-08
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