Just Before Nightfall (1971)

Just Before Nightfall (Claude Chabrol, 1971) French Title: Juste avant la nuit It was exactly like a dream, an erotic one. Advertising execu...

Donsol (2006)

Donsol (Adolfo Alix Jr., 2006) Daniel (Sid Lucero) is a B.I.O. or butanding (whale sharks) interaction officer. Every year, the shores of th...

Happy Feet (2006)

Happy Feet (George Miller, 2006) Penguins, those tuxedo-ed flightless birds of the Antarctic, are adorably cute. Children know this, which i...

A Good Year (2006)

A Good Year (Ridley Scott, 2006) If there was one adjective to describe the viewing experience that was Ridley Scott's A Good Year , it ...

Akeelah and the Bee (2006)

Akeelah and the Bee (Doug Atchison, 2006) Eleven-year old Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) has a gift for words. It's probably genetic: he...

Ang Pamana (2006)

Ang Pamana (Romeo Candido, 2006) English Title: The Inheritance Canadian-Filipino director Romeo Candido uses Filipino folkloric monsters to...

California Split (1974)

California Split (Robert Altman, 1974) Robert Altman's hardly seen masterpiece California Split is a film about gambling; the same way ...

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Larry Charles, 2006) Borat: Cultural Learnings of Ameri...

Wag Kang Lilingon (2006)

Wag Kang Lilingon (Quark Henares & Jerry Lopez Sineneng, 2006) English Title: Don't Look Back Star Cinema and Viva's team-up to ...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)

The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach, 2006) A group of men play jovially in the green fields of an unnamed village in Ireland. They go...

Black (2005)

Black (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 2005) To say that Black is a departure for director Sanjay Leela Bhansali is somewhat of an inaccuracy. Bhans...

It's Only Talk (2005)

It's Only Talk (Ryuichi Hiroki, 2005) Japanese Title: Yawarakai seikatsu A pervading and depressing sense of temporariness envelopes the...

Heremias (2006)

Heremias (Lav Diaz, 2006) Ox-driven carts full of native crafts line up at a concrete road. We painfully await each and every one of the car...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Sam Peckinpah, 1973) Bob Dylan's music accompanies the first killing in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid . P...

Manoro (2006)

Manoro (Brillante Mendoza, 2006) English Title: The Teacher Against the stylized eroticism of Masahista ( The Masseur , 2005), and the glos...

Marie Antoinette (2006)

Marie Antoinette (Sofia Coppola, 2006) Sofia Coppola's anachronistic portrait of one of history's most notorious queens, for me, fee...

Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

Flags of Our Fathers (Clint Eastwood, 2006) Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six soldiers struggling to raise an American flag atop the hig...

Numbalikdiwa (2006)

Numbalikdiwa (Bobi Bonifacio, 2006) Bobi Bonifacio's Numbalikdiwa starts promisingly. A young man goes home with a bag of skewered meat...

The Notorious Bettie Page (2005)

The Notorious Bettie Page (Mary Harron, 2005) During Bettie Page's career peak, she has been described as the pin-up queen of the univer...

Bona (1980)

Bona (Lino Brocka, 1980) The titular character (Nora Aunor) of Lino Brocka's film Bona has an irrational devotion for a bit player in a...

Kaleldo (2006)

Kaleldo (Brillante Mendoza, 2006) English Title: Summer Heat The opening titles of Brillante Mendoza's sophomore effort Kaleldo ( Summ...