Cinemalaya 2013 Review: Baby Ruth Villarama's JAZZ IN LOVE, An Endearing Documentary About Long-Distance Love

Cinemalaya 2013 Review: Baby Ruth Villarama's JAZZ IN LOVE, An Endearing Documentary About Long-Distance Love
Melbourne 2013 Dispatch, Day 2: Experimentation And Failure
THE RAID 2: BERANDAL Wraps Principal Photography

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 10:01 PM PDT

A telephone conversation between Ernesto "Jazz" Tigaldao and his German boyfriend Theo Rutkowski opens Baby Ruth Villarama's Jazz in Love. As excited words are exchanged, Villarama's camera lingers heavily on Jazz's face, examining its longing lines and careful contours, forcing familiarity within the few minutes that are spent to introduce us to a same-sex and Facebook-initiated long distance love affair. By the time the two lovers give each other their respective parting kisses over the phone, Jazz has already become a fully-formed character, a hopelessly enamoured romantic who is on his way to Germany to wed his foreign prince and live his happily-ever-after. It is not as if adorably optimistic Jazz does not deserve his fairy tale ending. He has studied and learned enough German...

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Melbourne 2013 Dispatch, Day 2: Experimentation And Failure

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 09:00 PM PDT

Welcome to my daily coverage of the Melbourne International Film Festival! I aim to bring you daily updates over the next 17 days of the definitive three or four films that certainly got my attention, as well as links to past Twitch reviews to ensure you have all the information you need regarding your MIFF picks. (Read about Day 1 right here.) Today got off to the best start it possibly could with US dramedy Drinking Buddies. Moving from this very excellent film to another modern genre of its sort would probably lessen its impact, so I saw the classic The Great Escape in 4k projection for the first time as part of MIFF's Masters and Restorations program. Needless to say three hours lovingly flew...

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THE RAID 2: BERANDAL Wraps Principal Photography

Posted: 27 Jul 2013 02:55 PM PDT

See that haggard looking man hold the film slate? That's The Raid writer-director Gareth Huw Evans, the slate he's holding being for the final shot of principal photography on upcoming sequel The Raid 2: Berandal. The seven month production cycle now complete, things now move along into post production with completion of the film expected in early 2014....

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