February 12, 2009 | 6862 views

And films.
QUARK: I feel quite bad in the sense that I think most of the films I did watch were the wrong films. I wasn't that active as a filmgoer last year, and I was only able to catch up during the MMFF. I did get to see two films made by two of my former students, though: Miguel Sevilla's "Cul de Sac" and Sherad Sanchez's "Imburnal." Both are good examples of individual vision, and I can't stop saying how proud I am to have been their prof.
LUIS: I still want to watch One Hundred, something I haven’t seen yet, which I hear good things about. And that movie they say was the best aswang movie ever made…
ERWIN: Yanggaw? Yanggaw by Richard Somes is by far the best film of the year for me. It stars Ronnie Lazaro and Tetchi Agbayani. It’s shot in Ilonggo, with English subtitles. It’s a psychological thriller, horror story but it’s so well made. It was really a small film made by professional people already working in the industry, so it wasn’t independent in that sense. Another film I really liked was Pisay.
LUIS: Me too, I think that was 2007, but it’s worth mentioning because it opened in CCP for Cinemalaya in 2008, I don’t think it had a real theatrical debut other than that. People only really see it in festivals, and a lot of people saw it in 2008, so it’s worth mentioning.
ERWIN: It was an okay year, but personally I think it was a good year. It’s hard to say, kasi cinema, there are spurts here and there, but pop culture of that magnitude, it should be as intensely personal and rare as Arnold and the Eraserheads, and as big as the Eraserheads. Parang wala eh. hmmm…