Reviews

TUHOG (Larger Than Life)

And now for something really BOLD By Jessica Zafra (Today Weekender)
CONSIDER the conditions Jeffrey Jeturian works in. For P2.5 million or less, 20,000 feet of film (the average local movie uses 40,000 to 60,000 feet; a Hollywood movie can eat up 35,000 feet in one day), and >>>

TUHOG: Imitating art imitating life Film Watch: Dennis Ladao(Manila Times)
Let's just put in this way. An X-rating given by the MTRCB is equivalent to Hollywood's coveted Oscar. A few acclaimed films have won this "accolade"- from Jane Campion's The Piano (1993) to Tikoy Aguiluz's Biyaheng Langit >>>

TUHOG : Obscenity of obscenities by Noel Vera (Business World)
Jeffrey and Armando Lao's Tuhog(Skewered)is, simply put, a film about screwing - about a mother being screwed, about her daughter being screwed >>>

Skin and sense by Butch Dalisay(Philippine Star)
I can't say enough good things about Jeffrey Jeturian's new film Tuhog, which we saw in its original, uncut version at the UP Film Center last week. Despite and maybe because of the fact that I also work in the >>>

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PILA BALDE(Fetch a Pail of Water)

PILA BALDE: The first good Filipino film of the Year by Noel Vera(Business World)
Last year there was a small yet significant spurt of worthwhile Filipino films. The mini-renaissance began in earnest (though many would disagree with me) >>>

A promising Filipino film comes along By Gino Dormiendo (Inquirer)
THESE days, when the overall quality of local movies has become generally suspect, a film like "Pila-Balde" may prove easy to like. It comes from the same tandem of director Jeffrey Jeturian and scriptwriter >>>

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SANA PAG-IBIG NA (Enter Love)

'Sana Pag-ibig Na': This time, 'pito-pito' works by Lito Zulueta (Inquirer)
" Sana Pag-ibig Na" is that little gem of a movie, forthright and no-nonsense that our cinema seems to have overlooked in the misguided rush to join a global cinema with silly notions of rusticity and local >>>

A New Director Has Arrived by Bien Lumbrera (Philippine Star)
A NEW director has arrived, and his arrival has been announced by a quiet little drama titled "Sana Pag-ibig Na." The movie tells about the youngest son of a university professor setting out >>>

Sana Nga! by Bunny Martinez (Manila Times)
DON'T let the treacly title fool you into thinking that Sana Pag-ibig Na is a run-of-the-mill melodrama. What it is a thoughtful drama that, despite the intimacy with which it inhabits its small corner of Filipino society >>>