Take two Noel Vera Richard Linklater's "Before Sunset" isn't many things: it isn't profound, or dramatic, or earthshaking in anyway, nor was it meant to be....
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Nov 12, 2004 11:31 pm
King Kong revisited Saw King Kong again after--ten? twelve?--years, and better still, recorded it. Crummy VHS copy, but that's better than staring wistfully at...
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Nov 20, 2004 5:29 am
The passables Noel Vera Brad Bird's "The Incredibles," his first film with Pixar, is an eclectic mish-mash of pop-culture influences, from Alan Moore's ...
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Nov 27, 2004 6:34 am
Staying alive Noel Vera Mike Mitchell's "Surviving Christmas" defies description, but the words "car wreck," "train crash," and "bridge collapse" come to mind....
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Dec 4, 2004 4:44 am
Pshaw Noel Vera Australian filmmaker James Wan's "Saw" is a mighty blunt instrument, about a serial killer out to make a philosophical point (yes, yet another...
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Dec 11, 2004 10:01 am
A family movie Noel Vera Don Mancini is lucky enough to have written all five of his "Chucky" pictures; that way he's retained control over his characters'...
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Dec 17, 2004 2:20 am
Pretty Kelly Noel Vera Ned Kelly, as people even remotely familiar with the name like to say, is a cultural icon in Australia. Though how much of an icon-- the...
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noelbotevera
Dec 25, 2004 7:47 am
Not another stupid Christmas movie Noel Vera Terry Zwigoff's "Bad Santa" is like a cure for all those sticky, sickly-sweet X'mas movies you see every year full...
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Dec 31, 2004 7:40 pm
"Da King" of Philippine Cinema Noel Vera Fernando Poe Jr. has at one point been described as the Filipino Arnold Schwarzenegger, America's one-time premier...
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Jan 8, 2005 7:23 am
The horror, the horror Noel Vera Saw "The Shining" on DVD--remastered and restored, it says, but as far as I can see not letterboxed (apparently what Kubrick...
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Jan 14, 2005 5:19 am
One more Noel Vera Frank Sinatra did "Ocean's Eleven" in 1960 as an excuse to have a lark, roping in Lewis Milestone (a filmmaker who started in the silent...
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Jan 22, 2005 5:34 am
Twelve great Filipino films Noel Vera Back in January 2000 I wrote a piece for Menzone Magazine listing down what I thought were the thirteen most important...
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Jan 29, 2005 7:16 am
Fock this movie Noel Vera Best parts of "Meet the Fockers:" The beginning. Being handed a taxicab, facing a row of green traffic lights during rush hour,...
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Feb 9, 2005 12:47 pm
Issue 34, Jan-Mar 2005 of Senses of Cinema presents a special section on Philippine cinema, and includes my article on "Babae sa Breakwater:" ...
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Feb 11, 2005 5:40 am
A very long endurance test Noel Vera I was never a fan of Jean-Pierre Jeunet's "Amelie." I was, however, a fan of Jeunet's early features, back when he was ...
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Feb 18, 2005 2:07 am
The muzak of the night By Noel Vera To Lord Lloyd Weber and Monsieur Schumacher; I need no introduction. You may have trouble believing it is me truly writing;...
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Feb 25, 2005 4:21 am
Side dish Noel Vera Perhaps the best description of Alexander Payne's "Sideways"; comes from the film itself, in the scene where Miles Raymond (Paul Giamatti)...
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noelbotevera
Mar 3, 2005 6:02 am
It's a compilation of my articles, from 1994 to 2004, and it's coming out in April, to be printed by the Singapore-based Big O Magazine. The book launching...
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Mar 4, 2005 5:31 am
The exhilarator By Noel Vera The general line about Martin Scorsese nowadays is that he's sold out--gone mainstream, gone soft on us, used his edgy visual ...
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Mar 11, 2005 4:08 am
Million-dollar heavy By Noel Vera It's the best-picture Oscar winner of 2004, and it's easy to see why: plodding, self-important, sentimental, it's just the...
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Mar 18, 2005 6:16 am
Curdled By Noel Vera Criticizing Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's latest is like shooting fish in a barrel: when you hear rumors of recasting and reshoots, or...
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Mar 22, 2005 5:32 am
Belated news--broke early March, but got around to posting it only now: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/plaridel_papers/message/10178 EMBARGO DATE: 16 February...
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Mar 25, 2005 6:55 am
If it only had a heart Noel Vera Easily the best portions of "Robots" is the detailed world the filmmakers make, of a completely mechanized city gone partly to...
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noelbotevera
Apr 1, 2005 8:47 pm
A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma Noel Vera "Elephant," Gus Van Sant's--recreation? Dramatization? Fictionalized meditation on?--the shootings at...
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Apr 8, 2005 2:25 am
Fight the power Noel Vera Charles Burnett's "Selma, Lord Selma" isn't on the level of his masterpieces, "Killer of Sheep" or "To Sleep With Anger." He's out to...
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Apr 15, 2005 6:13 am
Rearing Julia Roberts Noel Vera Mike Nichol's adaptation of "Closer" seems well-made, well acted and, considering the critical reception and brisk business...
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Apr 15, 2005 9:19 pm
It's available now, with a beautiful still from Lino Brocka's "Orapronobis" (Fight for Us, 1989) on the cover. Here's a link to order it in Singapore: ...
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Apr 22, 2005 12:22 am
Hickboxing Noel Vera Prachya Pinkaew's "Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior" is a sleek little movie that's making a few waves in the international arthouse cinema ...
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Apr 29, 2005 12:57 am
Guess not By Noel Vera Kevin Rodney Sullivan's "Guess Who" enjoys possibly the biggest, easiest head start for a remake in the history of cinema: it's a ...
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noelbotevera
May 6, 2005 5:13 pm
Unfortunately, the Manila edition won't be pushing through. But--I'm hoping to interest the publishers in another project. And the book is still available for...
