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                    [Title] => Direk Dante and the fate of Phl cinema
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We first met director Brilliante “Dante” Mendoza when we were asked to cover?the Cannes Film Festival of 2008, where Dante had an entry titled Serbis,?a bold exposé of?the illegal sex trade going on to this day in Angeles City, Pampanga where Dante was born.

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They were the palaces in the golden age of cinema, the grand venues of Philippine pop culture.

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A lot of film enthusiasts believe that the Best Picture prize should also come with the award for Best Direction. I don’t think this is necessarily so. There are some promising materials, for instance, that are ruined by uninspired direction.

[DatePublished] => 2009-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135733 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1186451 [AuthorName] => Butch Francisco [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 508387 [Title] => Urian: How the voting went [Summary] =>

There were eight Best Actor nominees in the just concluded 32nd Gawad Urian: Perry Dizon, the pimp in Melancholia; Julian Duque, the battered kid who turns out to be a musical genius in Boses; Baron Geisler, the exploitative segment producer in Jay; Ronnie Lazaro, the father of a young woman who turns into an aswang at night in Yanggaw; Timothy Mabalot, the child involved in small-time illegal logging in Brutus; Coco Martin and Paolo Rivero who play lovers in Daybreak and Neal Ryan Sese as the kind-hearted cab driver in Huling Pasada.

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Last Saturday, Sept. 19, wasn’t the most ideal time to hold an awards night at the CCP complex grounds for at least two reasons...

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How come Mercedes Cabral felt like a winner even if she didn’t get any award in the two Cannes Filmfests where her films had competed

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MANILA, Philippines - This is true for director Brillante Ma. “Dante” Mendoza who won Best Director for Kinatay at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival last May 24 in France.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1316934 [AuthorName] => Ferdinand Lapuz [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 469769 [Title] => The brownest bunny [Summary] =>

Or, How to write about Cannes without actually setting foot in Cannes.

[DatePublished] => 2009-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134078 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1389712 [AuthorName] => Jessica Zafra [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 468182 [Title] => Pinoy films engage Barcelona filmfest audience [Summary] =>

BARCELONA - At the recently-concluded 11th Barcelona Asian Film Festival (BAFF) of 60 features that we attended, two films from the Philippines won minor awards — Jay by Francis Javier Pasion as Best Film in a Digital Format, and Serbis by Brillante “Dante” Mendoza with the Premio Cinematk from the Spanish TV Channel as Best Film for distribution throughout Spain.

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Several times during a Cinema-nila screening of Serbis, I was ready to bolt from my seat. The very first scene shows a ...

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