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YCC names ‘Sa Palad ng Dantaong Kulang’ best film, Nadine Lustre best performer
The Film Desk of the Young Critics Circle voted the documentary Sa Palad ng Dantaong Kulang as the best film of 2018. This marks the first time in the Circle’s 29-year history that the top award has...
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Bird of Disquiet: A review of Gutierrez Mangansakan II’s Masla A Papanok (2018)
John Bengan A girl named Elena (Alaska Ordona) shows a younger girl how to make the sign of the cross in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary. “Our Holy Queen,” Elena adds. The younger girl replies...
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Past Lingering: A review of Kung Paano Hinihintay ang Dapithapon (Carlo...
Jaime Oscar M. Salazar Kung Paano Hinihintay ang Dapithapon (2018), directed by Carlo Enciso Catu, revolves around Tere (Perla Bautista) and Celso (Menggie Cobarrubias), a couple who are both roughly...
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Hagod at Lapit: Danas ng Lugar sa at ng Sa Palad ng Dantaong Kulang (Jewel...
Emerald Flaviano ‘Pagkat ‘di ba ang panahon ay may muwang At ang lahat ng naglalakbay sa isang panahon Ay nilalakbay rin Ng panahong iyon? Binubuksan ni Jewel Maranan ang Sa Palad ng Dantaong Kulang ng...
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Mukha’t Pag-ibig: Hinggil sa Never Not Love You (Antoinette Jadaone, 2018)
Christian Jil R. Benitez Sa dulong bahagi ng Never Not Love You (2018) ni Antoinette Jadaone, makikitang nagmamaneho si Joanne (Nadine Lustre) papasok sa kanyang trabaho nang tumawag ang kanyang...
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Visions of Love: A review of Kung Paano Siya Nawala (Joel Ruiz, 2018)
Skilty Labastilla When the local mainstream film industry has specialized in churning out paint-by-numbers love stories, the release of a romance film that gets it right is a cause for celebration....
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Tumatandang Pasulong: Rebyu ng Mamang (Denise O’Hara, 2018)
Aristotle J. Atienza Kung tutuusin wala namang talagang dapat ikabahala, nakalilimot ang lahat. Pero itong hindi makatanda ang karaniwang sinasadyang tinatandaan, pinapalatandaan para matuldukan....
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The Trans/gender of the Colony: A Critique of Call Her Ganda (PJ Raval, 2018)
Jaya Jacobo PJ Raval’s documentary Call Her Ganda is an indictment not only of the court decision on the death of Filipina transgender woman Jennifer Laude — one that lowered the sentence of American...
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Woman, Mother, Trans: A Critique of Mamu; and a Mother Too (2018)
Jaya Jacobo What sorts of kinships are forged by a trans woman, particularly as she is forced by circumstances to perform motherhood? How does this trans mother queer the terms of affinity? And what...
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Strumming the Void: Notes on Dwein Ruedas Baltazar’s Oda sa Wala (2018)
Christian Tablazon At its heart, the title Oda sa Wala already announces a perverse, desiring subject enfolded in a long and fraught enactment of apostrophe. The film opens with what is probably one of...
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A Longer Story of Impunity: A review of A Short History of a Few Bad Things...
Lisa Ito Keith Deligero’s A Short History of a Few Bad Things (2018), which premiered as part of the Cinema One Originals festival last year, offers several moments that distinguish it from the...
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The 29th Annual Circle Citations for Distinguished Achievement in Film for 2018
The Young Critics Circle Film Desk held its 29th Annual Circle Citations for Distinguished Achievement in Film for 2018 on 16 August 2019 (Friday), 3:00 PM at the Jorge B. Vargas Museum, University of...
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‘Edward’, ‘Lingua Franca’ top YCC nominations for 2019
Edward, Thop Nazareno’s Cinemalaya entry about a teenage boy’s coming-of-age in a public hospital, and Lingua Franca, Isabel Sandoval’s QCinema exhibition film about a trans woman’s struggle to obtain...
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YCC names ‘Edward’ best film of 2019; US-based filmmaker Isabel Sandoval...
Edward, an engaging film about a young man’s coming-of-age set in a public hospital ward, takes the top prize in the Young Critics Circle Film Desk’s 30th Annual Circle Citations. The second...
View ArticleOn Tendencies: A Conversation on the Filmic Year 2019
This exchange was conducted from May 20 to December 3, 2020 via email. The messages were then compiled into a single document, edited, and sent to the participants for review before posting. Like...
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Ang Romantikong Danas ng Dahas sa Realismo
Andrea Anne Trinidad Realismo ang hulmahang kadalasang nagluluwal ng pelikula sa bansa. Hindi mapasusubaliang hanggang sa kasalukuyan, itong tradisyon pa rin ang madalas katigan ng mga manlilikha sa...
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Love and Liberal Democracy: Alone/Together, Ulan, and Isa Pa, With Feelings
Janus Isaac Nolasco What does a genre—which trades on kilig, hugot heartaches—have to do with inequality, poverty, human rights, and authoritarianism? If Filipino romance movies barely register on the...
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Para sa For My Alien Friend
Aristotle Atienza Paano maaaring tanggapin ang pelikulang For My Alien Friend (2019) ni Jet Leyco, ang isa sa mga itinatanging pelikula ngayon ng nakaraang taon? Kakahunin ito bilang dokumentaryo at...
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Motion through sight: On No Data Plan
Emerald Flaviano Manlapaz In No Data Plan (2019), Miko Revereza enfolds us in an experience. This experience, a three-day train ride from Los Angeles to New York, is marked by Revereza’s subjectivity,...
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Sour Times: A Review of Sila-Sila
John Bengan What do breakup stories usually reveal? The tipping point when enough has been had, the tedium that erodes the bond, the gradual avalanche of small acts? Written by Daniel Saniana and...
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