To all the ppl from the Phils! Kumusta ulit! Haven't been to quiapo lately, the storm and the raids...Damn Edu, as my friends always say...

where did you find the Magnificent Ambersons? I've been looking for it everywhere...

anyway, for the guy who liked M, I teach Film Theory and Appreciation. My students were basically just relieved they weren't bored to tears with it. they were pleasantly surprised that old movies can have a fast pace just as modern films do... and now that Peer Gynt tune gives them the creeps...

hmmm, you mentioned Santa-Santita--watched it too. I was expecting to be blown away, but I was really disappointed. Bad script, and the lead actress' inexperience (although by our standards out here, it's passable, not bad). Maybe the script was because there were three people working on it...I don't know...But at least the I'd have to give it to Unitel pictures for trying to be different. I liked Crying Ladies a lot, although I don't think it would win at the Oscars...I mean, it's good, but not good enough to compete with other countries yet. It's like, we have only started making 'films' when other countries have been making them for years. We've been left behind. Kind of sad...it will take a long time and a lot of hard work before we can catch up...

Hey...about Salo...and Sir...darn forgot his name...anyway, he was my teacher in college too. (We asked if we could watch Salo, but he said there are even more depraved and disturbing films than that one...) Well, watched a lot of other films in his Theory and Criticism class. He showed us George Lucas' American Grafitti and then Johnny Guitar during the first few weeks...and then we have to read that thick Film Criticism book with articles by Andre Bazin et. al... Wow...i miss those days, and free movie screenings at the UP Film Center...