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Cannes opens its doors to homeless after coronavirus delays film festival

Reuters
Posted at Mar 25 06:50 AM

PARIS (Reuters) - The Palais des Festivals should be preparing to welcome the hottest names in cinema onto its red carpet. Instead the Cannes Film Festival venue is opening its doors to the town’s homeless who have nowhere to go during the coronavirus lockdown. Read more »

20 outstanding Filipino movies – all streamable – to get you through the lockdown

Updated as of Mar 22 11:15 AM

You won't believe the gems now made available online. By ANDREW PAREDES Read more »

Cannes film festival shuffles dates in bid to survive epidemic

Fiachra Gibbons, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Mar 20 10:15 AM

The Cannes film festival will not take place as planned in May because of the coronavirus, its board said Thursday, with its directors looking at postponing it until late June. Read more »

'Write About Love' recognized at Osaka Asian Film Festival

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 16 08:45 PM

"The technical aspects of the film are elaborate as reflected in the aspect ratio. Scenes taking place in the real world are shot in 4:3, the movie scenes are 16:9, and eventually the two worlds are mixed." Read more »

Summer MMFF postponed after Metro Manila put under 'community quarantine'

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 13 12:39 PM

Metro Manila Film Festival organizers have confirmed plans to move the first-ever April festival to a later date over coronavirus concerns. Read more »

Paulo Avelino co-produces upcoming film 'Ngayon Kaya'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 12 11:52 AM

Paulo Avelino will not just be starring in his upcoming movie “Ngayon Kaya,” as he is also credited as its co-producer. Read more »

Film fest kanselado, live shows na-postpone dahil sa coronavirus

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 12 12:18 AM

Patuloy ang pagkansela sa mga concert at iba pang public event sa Metro Manila dahil sa banta ng COVID-19.  Read more »

WATCH: Clairvoyant Alex helps widower Xian in ‘Love the Way U Lie’ trailer

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 11 12:23 AM

A clairvoyant woman helps a widower move on by being the medium of his dead wife in the full trailer of “Love the Way U Lie”. Read more »

Cristine Reyes wins best actress in Porto International Film Festival

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 09 11:45 AM

Cristine Reyes has bagged the best actress award at the 40th edition of the Porto International Film Festival for her performance in the movie “Untrue.”   Read more »

'Let's talk story': A book review of 'The Golden Dagger'

Buddy Gomez — Cyberbuddy
Posted at Mar 06 06:29 PM

The story is “The Golden Dagger.” The storyteller, Antonio G. Sempio. Read more »

'Onward' stars ibinahagi ang mensahe ng pelikula

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 08:42 PM

Muling nagsama ang Marvel stars na sina Chris Pratt at Tom Holland sa pelikulang "Onward."  Read more »

WATCH: Ritz Azul is haunted by ghosts in 'The Missing' trailer

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Mar 03 12:11 PM

Regal Films released on Monday the full trailer of “The Missing,” which is its entry to the first-ever Metro Manila Summer Film Festival.   Read more »

Coco Martin-Angelica Panganiban movie joins Metro Manila Summer Film Festival

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Mar 02 06:05 PM

The selection committee of last year’s Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) has announced the eight official entries which will participate in its first-ever summer edition to kick off this April.   Read more »

Some of the earliest documentaries about Manila will be shown at Cine Adarna in March

ANCX
Posted at Feb 26 07:14 PM

In Daang Dokyu, the inaugural Philippine Documentary Festival, several shorts films about Filipino life—including a few produced in 1910s—will be shown here for the first time. Read more »

Looking for ‘Maynila’ in ‘Parasite’: How Brocka & Bong Joon-ho tackled the rich/poor divide

Jam Pascual
Updated as of Feb 24 05:21 PM

Because the Korean director has been quoted as saying Lino Brocka was one of his influences as a young filmmaker, Jam Pascual wanted to find out if he can spot glimpses of Brocka in Parasite. Guess what else he found out.  Read more »

Fil-Am film ‘Death of Nintendo’ makes world premiere at Berlinale 2020

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 07:21 PM

Written by Valerie Castillo-Martinez and directed by Raya Martin, "Death of Nintendo" is a coming-of-age story about four 13-year-olds and their experiences in the 1990s. Read more »

Sinag Maynila disqualifies film critical of Duterte admin; director raises howl

Davinci Maru, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 22 02:53 PM

The Sinag Maynila Film Festival said Friday it had disqualified one of its full-length films after it allegedly deviated from its approved screenplay. Read more »

PH drug war docu ‘Aswang’ to premiere in documentary festival

Francis Toral, ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 20 06:25 PM

Fresh from its successful premiere in Amsterdam, "Aswang", a documentary on the government’s war on drugs will be screened for the first time in the Philippines at the “Daang Dokyu” festival next month. Read more »

Coronavirus casts shadow on China's big screen ambitions

Helen Roxburgh and Danni Zhu, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 18 12:12 PM

The closures could have a devastating impact on China's film industry -- and its target to overtake the US this year as the biggest box office in the world. Read more »

Responding to public demand, CCP brings back Imelda Marcos documentary

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 17 02:51 PM

The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) is re-screening a critically acclaimed documentary about former First Lady Imelda Marcos due to insistent public demand.  Read more »