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Against all odds: Contra Mundum
by Jonathan Chua - September 30, 2014 - 12:00am
How many times can one stage A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino? Since its first performance in 1955, it has become one of the most frequently staged Filipino plays, its two leading roles essayed by actors of the...
How relevant is Urbana at Feliza today?
by Jonathan Chua - September 8, 2014 - 12:00am
Before Emily Post and Miss Manners, there was Urbana at Feliza, an epistolary novel by Modesto de Castro, first published in Manila in 1864.
Titillating in good measure
by Jonathan Chua - August 24, 2014 - 12:00am
The willing suspension of disbelief is one of the basic prerequisites for one to enjoy a movie. Talk Back and You’re Dead, however, requires a willful suspension of disbelief.
A legacy of good taste
by Jonathan Chua - November 2, 2011 - 12:00am
Good taste. That was the tenor of the necrological tribute to National Artist Salvador “Badong” Bernal at the Cultural Center of the Philippines last Saturday morning.
Westlife sounding better
by Jonathan Chua - October 3, 2011 - 12:00am
To be told by a 23-year-old hotel receptionist that she listened to your music throughout her years in grade school must make any singer feel old.
The still inimitable Barbra Streisand
by Jonathan Chua - September 30, 2011 - 12:00am
When Barbra Streisand cut her first album in 1963, nobody could have predicted how far she would go or how long she would last.
Small-scale surprises in finale
by Jonathan Chua - July 20, 2011 - 12:00am
The challenge for any director of a successful movie franchise is how to sustain the momentum; and if the franchise happens to be ending, the onus becomes doubly heavy.
A trip worth taking
by Jonathan Chua - December 10, 2010 - 12:00am
Narnia The Voyage of the Dawn Treader almost did not make it to the big screen.
Laro: Child's Play at the CCP
by Jonathan Chua - December 9, 2010 - 12:00am
Some years ago poet and radio show host Mike Coroza made me listen to what Philippine music historians call a novelty song.
Neither hallowed nor hollow
by Jonathan Chua - November 26, 2010 - 12:00am
A movie adaptation is usually only as good as its source. In the case of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the challenge for director David Yates is that the material he has to work with is possibly the weakest...
Irma Potenciano at 79: Never too old to sing
by Jonathan Chua - September 29, 2010 - 12:00am
“American Idol? Excuse me!” That’s one of Irma P. E. Potenciano’s quips when we visited her at the UST Conservatory of Music where she teaches voice.
Love Never Dies: More fan fiction than sequel
by Jonathan Chua - March 26, 2010 - 12:00am
How does a composer top his own best show? He doesn’t, but he at least tries not to be too far off the mark. Andrew Lloyd Webber has yet to write a show that would equal the success he has had with...
The actress who sings is back
by Jonathan Chua - October 16, 2009 - 12:00am
It was 49 years ago (on June 6, 1960) when Barbra Streisand won a talent show at the Lion in Greenwich Village by singing A Sleepin’ Bee.
A little half-brewed
by Jonathan Chua - July 24, 2009 - 12:00am
Adapting a novel into film is a test in narrative economy.
Separating realism from fantasy
by Jonathan Chua - July 19, 2009 - 12:00am
Film review: Ang Panggagahasa Kay Fe. Since its institution in 2004, the Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival has been the launch pad of many young Filipino “indie” filmmakers. Director Alvin Yapan is...
Jed Madela: Sweet intoxication
by Jonathan Chua - July 20, 2008 - 12:00am
Jed Madela has a face the cross between Hans Montenegro’s and Jake Cuenca’s, but a voice like neither — nor, indeed, like anyone else’s in contemporary Philippine pop.
Above all, spectacle
by Jonathan Chua - June 12, 2008 - 12:00am
We create our own nightmares
by Jonathan Chua - November 19, 2007 - 12:00am
There are two contradictory ways to look at an adaptation. One is to see how closely it sticks to the original; the other is to ask how and to what end it transforms the source. Judged by the first criterion, Robert...
A story worth retelling
by Jonathan Chua - July 15, 2007 - 12:00am
3 boys and a boyband
by Jonathan Chua - December 17, 2006 - 12:00am
Where do boys go when they quit a band? Most disappear (thankfully!), but a number of them go solo. Bands that lose members (1) die, (2) regroup and rename themselves (like Same Same, formerly The Moffats),...
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