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Today's Screenings

Competition

Three Kings (US)
Dir: David O Russell.
Cast: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube.
Near the end of the Gulf War, a trio of American soldiers hears rumours of a hidden cache of Kuwaiti gold.
English. 112 mins.

Nebeska Udica (Sky Hook) (Yugoslavia)
Dir: Ljubisa Samardzic.
Cast: Nebojsa Glogovac, Ana Sofrenovic, Ivan Jevtovic.
A seven-day period in May 1999 at the peak of the NATO bombing of Serbia.
Serbian. 95 mins.

Dokuritsu Shonen Gasshoudan (Boy's Choir) (Japan)
Dir: Akira Ogata.
Cast: Atsushi Ito, Sora Toma, Teuyaki Kagawa.
Looks at the disillusionment of some youthful radicals when faced with changing ideals.
Japanese. 130 mins.

Retrospective

Zaïde (France) 1999.
Dir: Josée Dayan.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau , Guillaume Depardieu, Mathieu Amalric.
90 mins.
Hommage: Jeanne Moreau

La Notte (France) 1960.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni.
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Bernard Wicki and Monica Vitti.
A moderately successful novelist and his wife begin to question their marriage and their life.
121 mins.
Hommage: Jeanne Moreau

Hi, Mom! (USA). 1970.
Dir: Brian De Palma.
Cast: Robert De Niro, Charles Durnham, Allen Garfield, Abraham Goren and Lara Parker. The adventures of a young porno film-maker.
87 mins.
Hommage: Robert De Niro

Johnny Mnemonic (USA) 1995.
Dir: Robert Longo.
Cast: Keanu Reeves, Dina Meyer, Ice-t, Takeshi Kitano and Denis Akiyama.
Johnny works as a courier ­ carrying data in his brain.
98 mins.

Panorama
Bhopal Express (India)
Dir: Mahesh Mathai.
Depicts how the 1984 Union Carbide toxic gas accident affects a newly-wed couple.
98 mins.


Elze Is Giljos (Elze's Life ­ Love Was All She Had) (Lithuania)
Dir: Algimantas Puipa.
A chapter from the history of German-Lithuanian relations in the town of Nehring.
139 mins.

Grass
Dir: Ron Man.
English.
Examines how deeply rooted marijuana is in our culture.
79 mins. + short Psycho Path
The Third Miracle
Dir: Agnieszka Holland.
Cast: Barbara Sukowa, Ed Harris, Ann Heche.
A priest discovers that the nun who is to be beatified has a daughter.
113 mins.

Crissy (Australia)
Dir: Jacqui North.
A family faces a major challenge when the eldest daughter can no longer hide the fact that she has Aids.
52 mins.
Panorama

Buddies (US) 1985.
David befriends militant gay Robert who is dying of Aids.
81 mins.
+ short Living With Aids

Voiz (Orator) (Uzbekistan)
Dir: Jusuf Razykov.
Cast: Bachodyr Adylov, Lola Altoeva, Javochir Zakirov.
A witty and poetic story about an Uzbek who can't give up his three-woman harem.
83 mins.

Shadow Boxers
Dir: Katya Bankowski.
Katya Bankowski, herself a boxer, portrays Luica Rijker, the kickboxing world champion.
72 mins.
+ short Darling International

Asfalto (Spain)
Dir: Daniel Calparsoro.
Cast: Najwa Nimri, Gustavo Salmerón, Juan Diego Botto.
Three criminals are in love with each other.
92 mins.

Sulla Spiaggia E Di La'Dal Molo (Italy) Drama.
Dir: Giovanni Fago.
Cast: Lorenza Indovina, Stephane Freiss, Laurent Terzieff.
A friendship overcomes war and destruction.
130 mins.

Forum

George Washington
(US)
Dir: David Gordon Green.
Cast: Candace Hairston, Donald Holden.
A group of teenagers on the edge of adulthood, how they deal with a friend's death, love and jealousy, and their improverished existence in North Carolina.
89 mins.

Norae-Ro Taeyang-Ul-Ssoda (Shoot The Sun By Lyric) (Korea)
Dir: Cho Jai-Hong. English subtitles.
Moves to abolish the screen quota system in Korea provoke major protests.
90 mins.

Havanna Mi Amor (Germany)
Dir: Uli Gaulke.
Contrasting the fiction of television with stories of the lives of people who watch every Cuban telenovelaepisode with bated breath.
72 mins.
Long Night's Journey Into Day (US)
Dirs: Frances Reid, Deborah Hoffmann.
A moving account of the work of the Truth & Reconciliation committee in South Africa and a document of a unique political trial in the history of mankind.
94 mins.

Leçons De Ténèbres
Dir: Vincent Dieutre.
A journey to selfawareness, encountering along the way works of the old masters: Caravaggio, Honthorst, Caraciolo and Riberia.
77 mins.


One Piece! (Japan)
Dirs: Shinobu Yaguchi, Takuji Suzuki.
Cast: Youji Tanaka, Nao Nekota.
A brilliant series of cinematic short stories.
English subtitles.
72 mins.

Beau Travail (France)
Dir: Claire Denis.
Cast: Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin.
An African Foreign Legion outpost is transformed into a bizarre ballet of violence and passion driven by homoerotic undertones.
90 mins.

Marsal (Croatia)
Dir: Vinko Bresan.
Cast: Drazen Kühn, Linda Begonja.
Village dwellers on a small Adriatic island believe they have seen the ghost of Marshal Tito.
97 mins.
Press/market Screenings

Abendland (Germany)
Dir: Fred Kelemen.
Cast: Wolfgang Michael, Verena Jasch.
The emotional love story of a girl in a laundry and her unemployed boyfriend facing an uncertain future in a German town near the Polish border.
140 mins.

Arise! Walk Dog Eat Donut (US)
Dir: Ken Kobland.
A semi-abstract video poem evoking urban sadness.
30 mins.
and Third Known Nest (US)
Dir: Tom Kalin.
Different segments are unified by a thematic thread of body and identity politics in the age of Aids.
40 mins.


I Could Read The Sky (UK)
Dir: Nichola Bruce.
Cast: Dermot Healy, Brendan Coyle.
The moving story of an old man living in a bedsit in London.
86 mins.
Hans Warns ­ Mein 20. Jahrhundert (Hans Warns ­ My 20th Century)
Dir: Gordian Maugg.
Cast: Florian Hober and Shenja Lacher.
A fictional life story through the use of old photograghs and film. 105 mins.


Martin (Israel)
Dir: Ra'anan Alexandrovicz.
52 mins.

and Shine (Israel)
Dir: Gidi Dar.
48 mins.
Deutsche Polizisten (Germany)
Dir: Aysun Bademsoy.
A young group of police officers encounter people from their own countries and often have to apprehend them.
60 mins.


Ruang Talok 69 (Thailand)
Dir: Pen-ek Ratanaruang.
Cast: Lalita Panyopas.
English subtitles.
The day after Tum loses her job because the bank is 'downsizing', she finds a cardboard box stuffed with banknotes on her doorstep.
115 mins.
Beau Travail (France)
Dir: Clare Denis.
Cast: Denis Lavant, Grégoire Colin.
An African Foreign Legion outpost is transformed into a bizarre ballet of violence and passion with homorerotic undertones.
90 mins.
Forum
22.15
Hubad Sa Ilalim Ng Buwan (Naked Under The Moon) (Philippines)
Dir: Lav Diaz.
Cast: Klaudia Koronel. Elizabeth Oropesa.
All families have secrets ­ sometimes they can destroy the fabric of family life.
110 mins.


Kumar Talkies (India)
Dir: Pankaj Rishi Kumar.
An examination of the consciousness-shaping role of local cinema in a globalised and digitised world.
English subtitles.
76 mins.
Where A Good Man Goes (Hong Kong)
Dir: Johnnie To.
Cast: Lau Ching-wan, Ruby Wong.
Experiments with daring and unusual stylisation.
86 mins.
Forum

Kinderfest
Tsatsiki (Sweden)
Dir: Ella Lemhagen.
Cast: Samuel Haus, Alexandra Rapaport, George Nakas.
Tsatsiki dreams about going to Greece to meet his father.
90 mins.
Kinderfilmfest





Films and profiles of Filmmakers listed here, initially, were shown at or given tribute by the U.P. Film Center. The list of Films are arranged alphabetically, includes synopsis, credits and some photos. The filmmakers listed includes scriptwriters, editors and other members of the crew, and their filmography with links within to their films.
Tuhog (2001)
Sa nalalabing mga taon bago mag taong dalawang libo, karamihan ng pelikulang Pilipino ay tungkol sa pagwawalang hiya, pisikal o anu pa man. Dali daling nagpalabas ng mga pelikulang may nakakapangtawag pansin sa mga kalalakihan at mangilan-ngilang kababaihan, samahan mo pa ng mga pangalan ng mga starlet ay wari mo'y hinugot sa isang pantasyang napapanahon. Mga pamagat na tungkol sa kinakain, kapaligiran at gawain, na badyang pampalubag loob na kung susuriin ay may natatanging kahulugan. Sa panulat ni Armando Lao (Takaw Tukso) at dereksyon ni Jeffrey Jeturian (Pila Balde), ang Tuhog ay isang sariwang pagtanaw sa industriyang, bagama't unti-unting kinakain ng mga anay, ay masugid na pinipilahan sa takilya ng mga hayok sa laman, ang mga pelikulang bomba o sexploitation.

The film, albeit it’s searing title, is a gem. As Filipino film critic Noel Vera puts it, "its a film about screwing". It burrows a hole into your core about the truths on exploitation for profit. Irma Adlawan (Tukso, Sa North Diversion Road) and Ina Raymundo (Burlesk Queen Ngayon), stars as mother and daughter. Raymundo as the subject of her grandfather's (Nante Montreal) affections, eventually gets raped, in news of this a gung-ho filmmaker and his scriptwriter, interested in it approaches the family in hopes to get the heartfelt story across. Unbeknown to Adlawan is that what is extremely personal will get skewered on screen. As scenes from the film flashes before the audiences eyes, we also get a glimpse of the truth behind it. And most often than not, what we see is farther from the truth. In the finished film, we see Jacklyn Jose portraying Adlawan, Klaudia Koronel as Raymundo, and the cynical Dante Rivero as the soulless grandfather.

After being through the wringer, the mother and daughter, feels more vulnerable when they first sold their life. We feel their anguish as they are mocked as cutouts, as if they actually consented in the appalling acts of incest. The awful truth is made fun of, allowing viewers of the film take in what suppose to be horrifying, but as a soft porn flick to satisfy the urges. Tuhog (Larger than Life) proves to be one of 2001's best Filipino feature.