Debuting filmmaker Dwein Baltazar set out to take an unflinching look at growing old. She said her father had led her to the idea behind her first film, “Mamay Umeng,” one of the entries in last year’s Cinema One Originals fest.
If Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” had Kim Novak, Lino Brocka’s “Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag” had Hilda Koronel.
The premiere of the digitally restored version of Lino Brocka’s “Maynila sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag,” which was held on Friday night at the Salle Buñuel of the Palais, boasted lead star Hilda Koronel as guest of honor.
Once a year, this sleepy resort town south of France transforms into a “mecca for cineastes,” in the words of internationally acclaimed Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz.
It’s a much-delayed “homecoming” for the late National Artist for Film Lino Brocka in this resort city in the French Riviera, which once embraced him as one of its most celebrated finds.
Now, for the harder part. After capturing the world’s attention, the next goal of Filipino filmmakers should be to secure international distribution, said actor Joel Torre, who is part of the contingent of Erik Matti’s “On the Job,” an entry in the Directors’ Fortnight at the ongoing 66th Cannes International Film Festival in France.
It’s a fitting “homecoming” for the late National Artist for Film Lino Brocka in this resort city south of France.
As TV reports incessantly reminded us on Monday, Election Day is the great equalizer. Stars lined up just like ordinary folk for the midterm polls.
A day after the death of radio announcer Tita Swarding, his wife still couldn’t believe that her husband of 27 years was now gone.
It hit Angeli Bayani that she had nothing to wear for the Cannes fest only after securing a French visa last week.
Coming on the heels of 11-year-old belter Arisxandra Libantino, who got into “Britain’s Got Talent,” another Filipino-British singer, Joseph Apostol, breezed through the first rounds of auditions on “The Voice UK.”
“Sex & The City” star Sarah Jessica Parker is rumored to come to Manila next week.
