1. hugo, directed by my film teacher (i learned a lot watching il mio viaggio in italia and a personal journey through american movies) martin scorsese. ganun pala ang feeling nang naiiyak na may 3d glasses. gross. ang galing na teacher ni marty. nakakahawa ang passion nya for the movies.

2. ishmael bernal's hindi kita malimot starring maricel soriano and william martinez. kala ko pang-brocka yung gantong lines, pwede din pala si bernal sa melodrama:

rosemarie gil : hindi ba nya naisip ang matinding kahihiyang maidudulot nya sa aming pamilya kapag pinakasalan ka nya! isang hamak na taga-bukid! walang pangalan! walang pinag-aralan! nalalaman mo naman siguro na ang pamilya legarda ay hindi nag-aasawa ng mga taong walang kwenta at mababang uri!

alicia alonzo : napakalakas ng loob mong laiitin ang pagkatao ko! gusto mo bang pag-usapan ang uri! ang dangal! ang malinis at walang bahid na pangalan ng mga legarda! ikaw ba ay maituturing mo ang sarili mo na isang legarda! baka akala mo hindi ko nalalaman ang iyong nakaraan! pinagtapat sakin ni miguel ang lahat! napulot ka lang ng mga magulang nya sa gitna ng bukid! tinapon ka ng iyong ina!

pero dahil bernal, di mawawala ang ganto:

atorni : anong masasabi mo sa nasasakdal?

witness : good luck po sa kanya.

3. abbas kiarostami's close-up. and that, my friends, is a mind-blowing ending. hindi naman na nakakagulat; magaling talaga si kiarostami sa mind-blowing endings. pero napamura pa rin ako. ang galing lang.

4. joe's uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives. apichatpong weerasethakul ends his movie with a thai pop song (reminds one of that tropical malady song; my life and tropical malady are profoundly linked, to exaggerate quite a bit). now what remains a mystery to me is this: the song fits. perfectly. in a movie with ghosts of long dead wives and soldiers taking pictures of corpses of maybe suspected communists and lost sons turning into ape-like creatures and ugly princesses and catfish getting it on. these elements (in one movie) don't make sense when written and read. like dreams don't make sense when you tell your friends about them the next day. and a pop song ideally would sound improper in a movie with ghosts and princesses getting it on with talking catfish. but everything works. and fits. and it's not the mystery that sticks but the melancholy and tenderness and beauty and filth of life and living near death. ang cute pa ni joe.


boonsong

5. finally, unofficially yours. here's what me and my friends thought of it, we have a friendship pact that we'd watch all john lloyd-cathy garcia molina movies (we did not like that one set in malaysia, the rest we can quote like mean girls):

- ganda ng score. trent reznor.
- babalik syang newsroom na umiiyak? pagchi-chismisan sya nyan!
- parang john lloyd over phil.
- trent reznor.
- daming tibey.
- auteur si direk cathy. lahat ng pelikula nya may ofw.
- raket lang ang pagiging dentista.
- nasan si irma adlawan?
- nasan si bea saw?
- trent reznor.
- akala ko kakanta si cess ng rolling in the deep pag pasok nya eh.
- someone like you siguro pinapakinggan ni tetchie agbayani sa kusina kaya sya naiiyak.
- kelangan mag-erratum ng manila bulletin!

seryoso, kelangan ng erratum. trent reznor.