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Juaniyo Arcellana
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So long, Port Area: The STAR makes its move
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 21, 2023 - 12:00am
Though it’s been a long time coming, STAR employees, especially the veteran troopers, haven’t really wrapped their minds around the head office’s move from Port Area in Manila, to Sucat, Para&...
Let’s hear it for boygenius
by Juaniyo Arcellana - October 20, 2023 - 12:00am
There are times when you hesitate to write a review because after having done so, you’re likely to put away the reviewed piece, especially if music, as if over and done with. Not so much with the band boygenius,...
Page-turner set in turn of century Manila
by Juaniyo Arcellana - October 4, 2023 - 12:00am
Walking through Megamall on a Tuesday afternoon with an elder sibling, shortly after a death in the family, would take us to the basement nook Book Sale and a novel by British writer William Boyd going for little...
Essential truths, unspeakable grace
by Juaniyo Arcellana - September 1, 2023 - 12:00am
A scene or two always stands out from a Lav Diaz film, and in the case of Essential Truths of the Lake recently premiered in Locarno, it is the procession of religious novices reciting what sounds like a local version...
Skunk’s guitar an imaginary being
by Juaniyo Arcellana - August 9, 2023 - 12:00am
Little do millennials know, let alone Gen Zs, that there was once a secondhand vinyl store just below the Raon footbridge in Quiapo in the late ‘70s to early ‘80s. In truant college days, this was where...
What are you made of, Chavacanos in QC?
by Juaniyo Arcellana - August 7, 2023 - 12:00am
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in Quezon City, at the Erehwon Center for the Arts in Old Balara off Commonwealth Avenue, it is possible to see all the way to Zamboanga. This is so because on the last week of July,...
Dilang-putol: Cat got his tongue
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 8, 2023 - 12:00am
Now that we’ve reached the age of pre-censorship and the use of postmodern tools of communication, such that any stray report may or may not disintegrate into false news at the click of a mouse, consider that...
Post-pandemic music: Monochrome, Superego, The Garceaus
by Juaniyo Arcellana - June 17, 2023 - 12:00am
What has three years of pandemic wrought?
Brockas’ Manila by Night sends regards to cutie-cutie
by Juaniyo Arcellana - March 31, 2023 - 12:00am
Return of the primitive is what first comes to mind upon hearing the Brockas’ Manila by Night, the latest long-playing album of the band of filmmakers, who happen to pick up musical instruments, write songs...
National scientist Angel Alcala, 93
by Juaniyo Arcellana - February 3, 2023 - 12:00am
National Scientist Angel Alcala, a pioneer of marine biodiversity and marine conservation in the Philippines, died at the Silliman University (SU) Medical Center in Dumaguete City at past noon on Wednesday. He was...
Not a release: Latest from the Brockas
by Juaniyo Arcellana - January 25, 2023 - 12:00am
Filmmaker Khavn dela Cruz messaged to say that two of his latest films will have their premiere at the Rotterdam Film Festival, from Jan. 25 to Feb. 5, and the band Brockas of which he and other directors from the...
France vs Argentina: Coup de grace in Qatar
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 17, 2022 - 12:00am
Now the moment of truth as insomniacs of the world unite to watch Les Bleus seeking to become the first repeat champions since the Pele-led Brazil in 1962. The Albiceleste stand in their way, as Messi looks to notch...
Revenge of the spoken word
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 30, 2022 - 12:00am
No two bands can be as different and poles apart in their approach as Jack of None and The Brockas. Both are driven by the spoken word as main inspiration for most of their compositions, which can range from frenetic...
A Siaton guidebook to the lost gaze
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 21, 2022 - 12:00am
Our visit to Negros, the first in almost three years, was inauspicious because of the occasion of brother-in-law’s death in Siaton, one of the towns on the island’s southern tip.
The Passionate Strangers: Remembering Eddie Romero’s film starring Valora Noland  
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 4, 2022 - 12:00am
An old friend and high school batchmate now teaching film in South Korea, going by the alias Ynnocence, sent some months ago films personally requested for a re-viewing and re-evaluation, which included Eddie Romero’s...
Gone with the waves in Venice and San Isidro
by Juaniyo Arcellana - September 11, 2022 - 12:00am
One might say Lav Diaz’s latest film, Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon (When the Waves are Gone), was constructed around a photograph taken during the drug war, the Pieta-like cradling of a user/pusher victim by his...
Artist Rene Aranda, 66
by Juaniyo Arcellana - August 25, 2022 - 12:00am
Longtime editorial cartoonist of The Philippine STAR and mentor to countless illustrators in campus publications, Rene Aranda died early yesterday in his home in Pasay City. He was 66.
Katips says don't dream it's over A Katips says don't dream it's over  
by Juaniyo Arcellana - August 13, 2022 - 12:00am
There are thousands of untold stories of a yet unfinished revolution, and writer-director Vincent Tañada has quite a few in his counter-musical of the underground scene, set during the height of martial law,...
Isang Salaysay ng Karahasang Pilipino: Light, shadow, dialectics
by Juaniyo Arcellana - August 9, 2022 - 12:00am
The latest Lav Diaz film has just made its premiere screening in the Marseille festival, and if European audiences have seen bleak, they haven’t really looked deep into the Filipino void.
Last of the ponggols
by Juaniyo Arcellana - February 3, 2022 - 12:00am
Into the Chinese New Year and still the biggest story was the return of the Metro Manila Film Festival to actual brick and mortar theaters and movie houses last holiday season, netting a few gems including Big Night...
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