Now in its 8th year, the Cine Europa Film Festival is eagerly awaited by
all aficionados of European cinema.
Organised by the Embassies of the European Union Member States and the
Delegation of the European Commission in Manila the festival will take
place at the Shangri-La Plaza Mall, EDSA cor. Shaw Blvd. (easy access by
MRT, plenty of parking available) from Thursday, Sept. 22 to Sunday, Oct
02, 2005.
Please find attached a draft flyer with the screening schedule and a brief
synopsis of each films. I have also attached some more information about
the German film "Kroko". Films will be shown in the original language
with English subtitles.
Admission is free!
Opening night on Thursday, Sept. 22:
Invitation only!
Please tell your family, friends, neighbours, badminton partner, fellow
choir members, gym buddy etc. about Cine Europa 8 and encourage everyone
to come and watch the films.
For your information, after Manila Cine Europa 8 will move on to Davao
(Oct. 07 to 09) and Cebu (Oct. 14 to 16).
Tuesday, September 06, 2005
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
CRASH
I went to see a movie at SM last Friday. It was a movie of Paul Haggis, CRASH (producer of Million Dollar Baby). The editing was good, acting was par excellence. This movie is heavy in dialogue, so I advise that you listen carefully while watching ... ask questions after the movie.
I'd seen the various ways we discriminate against each other in everyday life. I'd seen how we rationalize and excuse it, how we organize our lives so that we dont have to deal with it, and how we deny that discrimination exists. The movie is not really about race or class, it's about fear of strangers. It's about intolerance and compassion; about how we all hate to be judged but see no contradiction in judging others.
We live in a society of fear, where people use that fear in order to control us, and the media uses that fear to manipulate us. The movie wants to discuss that and how that fear resonates and distorts how we perceive the world around us. Our reality is so detached that I think it requires a catastrophic event to make us either feel or acknowledge what's actually going on. We are too comfortable, way too comfortable.
It is a film that escapes genre categorization because it escapes tonal categorization. This is a film about real life. It's also something of a fable and a morality play. And it's a story of hope. There's levity, heartbreak, tragedy, beauty, comedy. You will see in Crash how fragile humanity is in general and how the slightest choice you make, which may not seem that important at the time, can end up having huge ramifications, a ripple effect way beyond yourself.
Probably one of my favorite movies this year!
I'd seen the various ways we discriminate against each other in everyday life. I'd seen how we rationalize and excuse it, how we organize our lives so that we dont have to deal with it, and how we deny that discrimination exists. The movie is not really about race or class, it's about fear of strangers. It's about intolerance and compassion; about how we all hate to be judged but see no contradiction in judging others.
We live in a society of fear, where people use that fear in order to control us, and the media uses that fear to manipulate us. The movie wants to discuss that and how that fear resonates and distorts how we perceive the world around us. Our reality is so detached that I think it requires a catastrophic event to make us either feel or acknowledge what's actually going on. We are too comfortable, way too comfortable.
It is a film that escapes genre categorization because it escapes tonal categorization. This is a film about real life. It's also something of a fable and a morality play. And it's a story of hope. There's levity, heartbreak, tragedy, beauty, comedy. You will see in Crash how fragile humanity is in general and how the slightest choice you make, which may not seem that important at the time, can end up having huge ramifications, a ripple effect way beyond yourself.
Probably one of my favorite movies this year!
Friday, March 18, 2005
Film Reviews
Deadline for submission hard copies of Film Reviews will be March 19, 2005 (Saturday) before the final examinations.
Due to requests coming from students who have multiple requirements in film editing and other subjects, I am accepting late papers through the internet.
FOR THOSE SUBMITTING THE REVIEW THROUGH EMAIL, TAKE NOTE:
Please submit your film reviews to my email jseliab[at]gmail.com and cc to psspdvo@addu.edu.ph. Do not submit document attachments, my email accounts have anti-virus softwares that delete attachments. Submit the reviews as text using "cut and paste" method, i.e. cut your text from MS Word and paste it in your mail as text. Do not forget to type your complete name and course/ year at the beginning of the mail.
Put in the subject heading of your email: HUM3 FILM REVIEW. This will enable my mail to filter your review into a specific folder so it gets spared from the smart "junk mail" filtering process. Emails without that subject heading may be deleted right away by Apple Mail if the your body text contains specific strings of words that Apple sees as junk. So please, be considerate enough to put that special heading.
All review sent by mail must be received before Wednesday, March 23, 2005. Reviews received beyond the deadline will have three (3) point deduction per day.
Due to requests coming from students who have multiple requirements in film editing and other subjects, I am accepting late papers through the internet.
FOR THOSE SUBMITTING THE REVIEW THROUGH EMAIL, TAKE NOTE:
Please submit your film reviews to my email jseliab[at]gmail.com and cc to psspdvo@addu.edu.ph. Do not submit document attachments, my email accounts have anti-virus softwares that delete attachments. Submit the reviews as text using "cut and paste" method, i.e. cut your text from MS Word and paste it in your mail as text. Do not forget to type your complete name and course/ year at the beginning of the mail.
Put in the subject heading of your email: HUM3 FILM REVIEW. This will enable my mail to filter your review into a specific folder so it gets spared from the smart "junk mail" filtering process. Emails without that subject heading may be deleted right away by Apple Mail if the your body text contains specific strings of words that Apple sees as junk. So please, be considerate enough to put that special heading.
All review sent by mail must be received before Wednesday, March 23, 2005. Reviews received beyond the deadline will have three (3) point deduction per day.
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