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Juaniyo Arcellana
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Birdman in Guiguinto
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 8, 2024 - 12:00am
Once upon a time in faraway Guiguinto, there was an autobiographical art exhibit told in cartoon panels, curiously titled “The Sky is the Langit” and curated by Erwin Romulo, and a launch of The Book...
Eddie Romero’s ‘Ganito’ selected for UNESCO memory of the world
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 24, 2024 - 12:00am
On the centennial of National Artist for Film Eddie Romero, the Dumaguete born director’s seminal “Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon?” has been selected for inclusion in the UNESCO Memory of the...
Bottle, gun, paint, film
by Juaniyo Arcellana - October 27, 2024 - 12:00am
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first acknowledged Filipino digital film, “Still lives” by Jon Red a.k.a. Juan Pula, which at the time it was released in 1999 was unaware it was ushering in...
Into the mystic
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 23, 2024 - 12:00am
Book author and anthropologist Tita Pambid Domingo laments that everything, even the once occult amulet, can be seen on the internet, and if this is the case there is no reason holding back showing her husband Reuben...
Greg Brillantes for national artist
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The story begins in Baguio City, in a bookshop called Mount Cloud, tucked away in a nondescript corner across Brent School and accessible, like anything else in this mountain city, after going through winding, sloping...
Last exit from Lantana
by Juaniyo Arcellana - June 30, 2024 - 12:00am
On the third Friday of June just days before the Feast of San Juan, Mowelfund held its first screening of the “Dokyu Wave” series at the Conrado “Dengcar” Baltazar Theater in its office off...
James Taylor in Manila redux, 30 years later
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 11, 2024 - 12:00am
Good things come to those who wait, not least to James Taylor and his fans who turned the Mall of Asia (MOA) Arena on April 8 into one giant folk house and speakeasy when the artist-musician had a sequel show to...
Letter to a ruined country
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 2, 2024 - 12:00am
The more I listen to Khavn and the Kontra-Kino Orchestra’s The Woman Who Went Mad, the more it sounds like a love letter to a ruined country, hypothetically our own, what with its sparse instrumentation, vocals...
Friends still here and friends no longer with us
by Juaniyo Arcellana - March 3, 2024 - 12:00am
I know this is late, but received word of director Tikoy Aguiluz’s death on the eve of an out-of-town trip, and so was unable to attend his wake.
2023: The year of the whodunit
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 31, 2023 - 12:00am
First big news of the year was the assassination of Negros Oriental governor Roel Degamo, a classic whodunit in the tradition of political and media rubouts that seemed to have carried over from the year previous,...
Cellar dwellers no more
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 12, 2023 - 12:00am
Before someone strikes that awful chord by saying the UP Fighting Maroons basketball team is aiming for new records of futility with three bridesmaid finishes in the past five seasons of the UAAP, most of the Diliman...
Lino Brocka, National Anarchist: Archivist’s delight
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 6, 2023 - 12:00am
Screened early this year at the Rotterdam film festival, Khavn dela Cruz’s Lino Brocka, National Anarchist had a run at the recently concluded QCinema festival, every bit a tribute to the late filmmaker who...
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?
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