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Notes from ‘Underground’
by Juaniyo Arcellana - May 7, 2007 - 12:00am
Originally published by Jonathan Cape in the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, Rey Ventura’s Underground in Japan (Ateneo de Manila University Press 2006)...
May Day Eve with Nick and Abe
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 30, 2007 - 12:00am
It seems almost serendipitous, reading Nick Joaquin’s last completed work, Abe, A Frank Sketch of E. Aguilar Cruz, on the second anniversary of his (Nick’s)...
Posters from Cesare
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 16, 2007 - 12:00am
The "axman" cometh sometimes in the mail, courtesy of a series of poster invites to this or that gathering, across town about town, in Mag:net Katips, along the old Reposo in Bel-Air near the Alliance Française,...
‘Giniling’ summer
by Juaniyo Arcellana - March 26, 2007 - 12:00am
Slowly but surely summer crept in, with all its attendant commencement exercises, culminating activities, and assorted soundtracks popping up every which way but loose, among them a pair of indie recordings...
BTS renews battle of sexes
by Juaniyo Arcellana - March 12, 2007 - 12:00am
When we were young and our life was an open book, we used to read the X-rated bedtime stories surreptitiously inserted between the pages of our high school textbooks of the ’70s,...
Hand of doom: The art of Igan D’Bayan
by Juaniyo Arcellana - February 12, 2007 - 12:00am
It was the taxi driver Mang Nards who briefed me on the various destinations of employees of this newspaper — the old maid who had innumerable apartments,...
Why tone is all
by Juaniyo Arcellana - February 5, 2007 - 12:00am
In the best poetry of our time – but only in the best – one is aware of a moral pressure being exerted on the medium in the very act of creation.
Some films to look forward to in 2007
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 18, 2006 - 12:00am
Just plowed through 24 scripts that were semifinalists in the Cinemalaya contest, 10 of which by this time will have been selected to be worthy of grants of half a million pesos each as seed money for the...
The 8th Cinemanila, according to Onegin
by Juaniyo Arcellana - December 4, 2006 - 12:00am
Easily the most impressive among the shorts in the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival held for two weeks in November is The Ballad of Mimiong’s Minion, whose director Jobin Ballesteros won...
Beyond words in the Lion City
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 6, 2006 - 12:00am
SINGAPORE – In the lion state of Singapore, there is such a thing as the Crazy Horse, which on first hearing we thought was the old band of rocker Neil Young. Only when we got here did we find out that it was...
Big house, small house
by Juaniyo Arcellana - September 5, 2006 - 12:00am
The spirit of independent cinema rings true in the 2002 release Balay Daku, billed as the first full-length digital film in Ilonggo, a three-hour epic by the young Jan Philippe Carpio. Lav Diaz, writing in the Balay...
Eleven stories from Filipino artists
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 17, 2006 - 12:00am
The rest of the globe went crazy over the World Cup, but the current Philippine art scene cannot be less preoccupied with another 11 – the nine paintings and two sculptures that comprise the Philippine contingent...
The two trains
by Juaniyo Arcellana - July 3, 2006 - 12:00am
(The original version of this article out in New Writing issue of Philippine Studies, Ateneo de Manila)
The road to Balanan
by Juaniyo Arcellana - June 6, 2006 - 12:00am
The road to Balanan is somewhat uneven, but that’s alright, that’s alright. A steady incline going up to the mountains of Siaton, more than 40 kilometers south of Dumaguete, Negros Oriental. From Siaton...
In our time of workshop
by Juaniyo Arcellana - May 15, 2006 - 12:00am
We forgot to pay tribute to the late mad poet Jun Lansang, a dark and frightening figure from our childhood that may as well have been "the black thing," or that anonymous roving specter that could...
A different crop
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 17, 2006 - 12:00am
The 10 finalists in the short feature category of this year’s Cinemalaya film festival would have by this time been notified that their respective short films (anywhere from eight minutes to half an hour) will...
UN, Central, Carriedo
by Juaniyo Arcellana - April 10, 2006 - 12:00am
Once there was a girl, nameless as usual, whom we followed in a jeepney ride along Taft Avenue in a now forgotten decade. A girl from St. Scholastica’s College, with a bracelet around her ankle. She got off...
An obit, a wish
by Juaniyo Arcellana - February 13, 2006 - 12:00am
The most that the rest of us mortals could do upon learning about Bro. Andrew Gonzalez’s death was say a prayer or two for the repose of his immortal soul, and reminisce a bit about the time he was our teacher...
Brave, new, digital world
by Juaniyo Arcellana - January 23, 2006 - 12:00am
When we set sail for Carthage we realized that there was no Carthage nor were we on any boat, but on a jeepney going south and in our canvass pants pockets was a DVD copy of Rigodon, the latest film by presently...
A light that never goes out
by Juaniyo Arcellana - November 14, 2005 - 12:00am
No one writes book reviews anymore because critics are too busy watching cable TV or surfing the Internet; no one reads CD reviews anymore because people would rather hear the CD itself and pass judgment without...
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