Thursday, February 22, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Magnifico (2003, Maryo J. de los Reyes)
Belated tribute to filmmaker Maryo J. de los Reyes: thoughts on one of his most highly regarded works
It's a wonderful life
Maryo J. de los Reyes' Magnifico is something fairly new in recent Philippine cinema: a wholesome family picture that's actually quite good.
Thursday, February 08, 2018
Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)
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And what of Luca Guadagnino's Call Me by Your Name, his adaptation of Andre Aciman's novel from a screenplay by James Ivory? I mean: two beautiful men, an Italian villa, a sundrenched summer in Lombardy, Italy--what's not to like?
Thursday, February 01, 2018
Downsizing (Alexander Payne)
Small scale
Alexander Payne's new film Downsizing is a slyer comic take on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels than the Jack Black travesty some seven years back--is perhaps the best adaptation of this classic fantasy satire to date.
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