Night of the power trio
By Juaniyo EY Arcellana
The band is called Lagkitan and the last Friday night of August belonged to them at the Bar@1951 in Malate (at...
A Disney extravaganza
Disney Live! Mickey’s Music Festival
Sept. 1 to 6
Kia Theatre
DISNEY LIVE! brings favorite Disney characters to life in Mickey’s Music Festival, a limited run show...
Cinemagraphs feat. the cast of Ang Larawan
The High Life team has been experimenting with cinemagraphs, defined as still photographs with minor moving elements. Take a look at the ones we...
The Fourth Wall
https://youtu.be/sILneY5ZKqY
In theater, “the fourth wall” is the artificial boundary that separates the actors from the audience. In this spread, fashion and film collide with...
Four poems
Cirilo F. Bautista, National Artist for Literature.
Art and War
When I look at abstract art and think of the dead
in the war in Iraq, things...
From fantasy to reality: 10 films from the Gallaga-Reyes tandem
The beautiful history of the Gallaga-Reyes tandem summarized in 10 films.
Words FRANCIS JOSEPH A. CRUZ
It was a decade marked by shifting tastes. From the hard-hitting socially...
Of stages and screens
“It takes a lot of heart and integrity to be a singer. It must be rough to be compared to somebody who just got...
PriMadonna
"She embraces every moment of her life and everybody else just watches her. ... She’s a Renaissance woman, I find." — Cherie Gil on...
The unsung, ignored half of the Gallaga-Reyes movies
"No matter how highly I think of myself, it’s humiliating to be ignored." — director Lore Reyes, who has been accused of "ruining" Peque...
Science fiction: a ghetto
Real science fiction involves (quoting Brian Aldiss, who attempts to describe the literature): “the search for a definition of man and his status in...
Favorite Things | Settling the score
Film scorer Diwa De Leon talks about his hegalong.
Interview POLA ESGUERRA DEL MONTE | Photography JONATHAN BALDONADO
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To the ear of film scorer Diwa de Leon, real life is...
The secrets of a successful partnership according to Gallaga and Reyes
"We keep our bullshit detectors very open for each other." — Peque Gallaga
Peque Gallaga: Mutual respect. Patience.
Lore Reyes: A lot of patience.
Gallaga: Sophistication. We...