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Pagkilala sa Pinakamahusay na Pagganap ng 2015
Emerald Flaviano Tumutukoy ang gawad sa pagganap ng isang papel o karakter na nagsasangkot ng emosyon, damdamin, at karanasan sa mga panlipunang kondisyon ng personal at sa politikal na ekonomiya ng...
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Pagkilala sa Pinakamahusay na Editing ng 2015
Skilty Labastilla Pito ang nominado sa kategoryang pinakamahusay na editing ng 2015. Ayon sa batayan ng YCC, ang naturang gawad ay tumutukoy sa “konpigurasyon ng mga ugnayan ng panahon at espasyo sa...
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Pagkilala sa Pinakamahusay na Sinematograpiya at Disenyong Biswal ng 2015
Jema M. Pamintuan Siyam na pelikula ang nominado para sa Pinakamahusay sa Sinematograpiya at Disenyong Biswal ng taong 2015, at ang mga ito ay ang sumusunod na mga pelikula: Sa Bambanti, ang distansya...
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Pagkilala sa Pinakamahusay na Tunog at Orkestrasyong Awral ng 2015
J. Pilapil Jacobo Tinutukoy ng kategoryang Pinakamahusay na Tunog at Orkestrasyong Awral ang paglalapat ng mga aspektong may kinalaman sa tunog sa pelikula, musika, likas na tunog, sound effects,...
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In a brothel for poor men: Film Review of Louie Ignacio’s “Area”
by Nonoy L. Lauzon The abrogation of the RP-US bases treaty and the eruption of Mt. Pinutubo – that both occurred in 1991 – comprise the two back stories that inform the plot of Area. In the film that...
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In Hora Mortis Nostrae: Critique of “Hinulid”
J. Pilapil Jacobo There is a scene in Kristian Sendon Cordero’s sophomore film “Hinulid” that manifests the predicament of mourning the narrative seeks to work through in its iterations of how forlorn...
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Uterine Reverie: Critique of “Sayaw sa Butal”
J. Pilapil Jacobo Bicolano poet and translator Victor Dennis Nierva’s first film is a short feature on the power of female fantasy and the violence of erotic imagination as transacted within...
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Triste Trafic: Critique of “EDSA”
J. Pilapil Jacobo “EDSA” (Alvin Yapan, 2016) is not so much about the thoroughfare, but the affairs of movement and immobility which beleaguer Philippine modernity. The narrative shifts from day to...
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The “Edsa” of Our Captivity
Nonoy L. Lauzon Ingenious it may be and without the baggage of having to recreate historical pageantry, Yapan’s populist feature packs a wallop of heavy commentary – the better to enlighten today’s...
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Northern Nocturne: Critique of “Malinak Ya Labi”
J. Pilapil Jacobo If there is any inflection of cinema that can grasp the truth of the tropics, no other perspective can lay claim to the apprehension but a film from the region, or from a province or...
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Ang Babaeng Humayo: Lav Diaz and Philosophy
Nonoy L. Lauzon Why is it important for Philippine cinema to gain the recognition of the world? For so long, the country has lagged behind more advanced film cultures of other nations that many have...
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Young Critics Circle votes ‘Women of the Weeping River’ best film
The Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle cites Sheron Dayoc’s Women of the Weeping River, about a Tausug family caught in a bitter war with a rival clan, as the most distinguished film of 2016. The...
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Tactile/Tactical: Critique of ‘Masahista’
J. Pilapil Jacobo Surveying the settings of local cinema’s sex films, we can say our audiences have quite traversed many a zone: street corners, public parks, fishing villages, and all that lush...
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Paghuhunos ng Melodrama sa ‘Inang Yaya’
Galileo Zafra Nakabigkis sa isang ironiya ang pangunahing tunggalian ng pelikulang Inang Yaya. Kailangang arugain ni Norma (Maricel Soriano) ang anak ng iba para buhayin at itaguyod ang sariling anak,...
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Rekompigurasyon ng lipunan alinsunod sa pananaw ni Amanda sa ‘Dekada ’70’
Ariel N. Valerio Pinaksa ng Dekada ’70 ang isa sa mga pinakamaligalig at pinakamasalimuot na yugto ng kontemporanyong lipunang Pilipino. Sa pagtatangka pa lamang na halughugin ang lalim at lawak ng...
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‘Minsan Pa’: The Camera Obscured and Luna’s Vision
Eloisa May P. Hernandez The camera plays an integral and integrative role in the film Minsan Pa. It is a repository of a woman’s visions: her past, present, and the promise of a future. Filmed...
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Methods of Melancholy: Critique of ‘Bakal Boys’ (2009)
J. Pilapil Jacobo The habit of locating the landscape of a purported independent cinema in almost every destitute milieu in the metropolis raises the ethical concern of what remains to be told when...
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Look After: Critique of ‘Foster Child’ (2007)
Patrick Flores The film may on the surface be uneventful. Thelma Manlangqui goes about her errands as mother and wife on a typical morning, with the banal bustle that attends the ritual, except that...
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‘Minsan Pa’: Mga Pagtalunton sa Pagitan ng Pamamaalam at Pagdating
Eli R. Guieb III Minsan, ang pamamaalam ay isang pagdating. At ang mga pagdating, kadalasan ay mga pamamaalam. At magkahalong panghihinayang at pag-asa ang binubuhay, pilit na binubuhay, sa mga...
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Long Walk to Peace
Skilty Labastilla The penultimate scene of Women of the Weeping River (Sheron Dayoc, 2016) finds the protagonist, a young woman named Satra, heading towards the other side of the river in her remote...
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