The 2019 nominees for the Best Asian Film award, presented by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta), have been revealed, with nine titles up for the prize including Bong Joon-Ho’s Cannes winner Parasite.
Also on the list are three Indian features: Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, which is India’s submission to the 2020 International Feature Film Oscar race, Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe, and Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun.
Joining them are three nominees from China: Jiao Zi’s Ne Zha, the country’s Oscar entry this year, Zhang Yimou’s Shadow, and Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth.
Completing the list are Cathy Garcia-Molina’s Hello Love Goodbye (Philippines) and Makoto Nagahisa’s We Are Little Zombies (Japan).
Parasite scooped Cannes’ Palme d’Or back in May and has been causing box office waves around the globe, grossing more than $100m to date, including $70m in its...
Also on the list are three Indian features: Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy, which is India’s submission to the 2020 International Feature Film Oscar race, Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe, and Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun.
Joining them are three nominees from China: Jiao Zi’s Ne Zha, the country’s Oscar entry this year, Zhang Yimou’s Shadow, and Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth.
Completing the list are Cathy Garcia-Molina’s Hello Love Goodbye (Philippines) and Makoto Nagahisa’s We Are Little Zombies (Japan).
Parasite scooped Cannes’ Palme d’Or back in May and has been causing box office waves around the globe, grossing more than $100m to date, including $70m in its...
- 10/15/2019
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
‘We Are Little Zombies’.
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) has revealed the nine films that will compete for this year’s Best Asian Film Award.
This is the third year Aacta has presented the award, which forms the foundation for the organisation’s Asia International Engagement Program. The award is designed to honour the finest films of the past year from 19 Asian regions, reflecting the popularity and importance of Asian films in Australia.
The nominees are: Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun (India); Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy (India); Cathy Garcia-Molina’s Hello Love Goodbye (Philippines); Jiao Zi’s Ne Zha (China); Bong Joon-Ho’s Palme D’Or winning Parasite (South Korea); Zhang Yimou’s Shadow (China); Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe (India); Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth (China) and Makoto Nagahisa’s We Are Little Zombies (Japan).
The long list of films in competition was reviewed...
The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (Aacta) has revealed the nine films that will compete for this year’s Best Asian Film Award.
This is the third year Aacta has presented the award, which forms the foundation for the organisation’s Asia International Engagement Program. The award is designed to honour the finest films of the past year from 19 Asian regions, reflecting the popularity and importance of Asian films in Australia.
The nominees are: Sriram Raghavan’s Andhadhun (India); Zoya Akhtar’s Gully Boy (India); Cathy Garcia-Molina’s Hello Love Goodbye (Philippines); Jiao Zi’s Ne Zha (China); Bong Joon-Ho’s Palme D’Or winning Parasite (South Korea); Zhang Yimou’s Shadow (China); Thiagarajan Kumararaja’s Super Deluxe (India); Frant Gwo’s The Wandering Earth (China) and Makoto Nagahisa’s We Are Little Zombies (Japan).
The long list of films in competition was reviewed...
- 10/14/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Filipino rom-com Hello, Love, Goodbye ended its record-breaking run in theaters last week, and with total global earnings of $17 million (₱881 million), it became the highest-grossing film ever produced in the Philippines.
The Star Cinema production showcases the talents of two of the country’s biggest stars, Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, under the direction of Cathy Garcia-Molina. It follows the relationship that builds between two overseas Filipino workers (Ofw) whose lives intersect in Hong Kong.
The filmmakers have spent the past week both toasting and reflecting on their success.
“I could only speculate, but maybe its theme ...
The Star Cinema production showcases the talents of two of the country’s biggest stars, Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, under the direction of Cathy Garcia-Molina. It follows the relationship that builds between two overseas Filipino workers (Ofw) whose lives intersect in Hong Kong.
The filmmakers have spent the past week both toasting and reflecting on their success.
“I could only speculate, but maybe its theme ...
- 9/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Filipino rom-com Hello, Love, Goodbye ended its record-breaking run in theaters last week, and with total global earnings of $17 million (₱881 million), it became the highest-grossing film ever produced in the Philippines.
The Star Cinema production showcases the talents of two of the country’s biggest stars, Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, under the direction of Cathy Garcia-Molina. It follows the relationship that builds between two overseas Filipino workers (Ofw) whose lives intersect in Hong Kong.
The filmmakers have spent the past week both toasting and reflecting on their success.
“I could only speculate, but maybe its theme ...
The Star Cinema production showcases the talents of two of the country’s biggest stars, Kathryn Bernardo and Alden Richards, under the direction of Cathy Garcia-Molina. It follows the relationship that builds between two overseas Filipino workers (Ofw) whose lives intersect in Hong Kong.
The filmmakers have spent the past week both toasting and reflecting on their success.
“I could only speculate, but maybe its theme ...
- 9/10/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Following its plan to upload more and more local content alongside the more predictable blockbusters, streaming giant Netflix is about to give us the opportunity to binge on good Filipino movies.
After choosing to stream Mikhail Red’s Academy Award-nominated “Birdshot” in March, Netflix has just announced a new list of films, including bombastic action thriller “BuyBust” by Erik Matti.
Here is the list of Filipino movies coming soon to Netflix:
“Heneral Luna” (2015) by Jerrold Tarog (Release date on Netflix: November 1)
Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen. (IMDb)
“BuyBust” (2018) by Erik Matti (Release Date on Netflix: November 15)
New recruit of an elite anti-narcotic squad Nina Manigan and a group of the best men and women of the team find themselves fighting for their lives in the slums of Manila after a botched buybust.
“Kita Kita” (2017) by Sigrid Andrea P.
After choosing to stream Mikhail Red’s Academy Award-nominated “Birdshot” in March, Netflix has just announced a new list of films, including bombastic action thriller “BuyBust” by Erik Matti.
Here is the list of Filipino movies coming soon to Netflix:
“Heneral Luna” (2015) by Jerrold Tarog (Release date on Netflix: November 1)
Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen. (IMDb)
“BuyBust” (2018) by Erik Matti (Release Date on Netflix: November 15)
New recruit of an elite anti-narcotic squad Nina Manigan and a group of the best men and women of the team find themselves fighting for their lives in the slums of Manila after a botched buybust.
“Kita Kita” (2017) by Sigrid Andrea P.
- 11/2/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The early 90's was for Philippine cinema a period for transition from the hard-hitting dramas and actioners to the sugary and light romances that are still popular up to today. Carlos Siguion-Reyna's Hihintayin Kita sa Langit (I Will Wait For You in Heaven, 1991), the quintessential Filipino film adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights starring Richard Gomez and Dawn Zulueta as lovers doomed by both man and fate's cruelty, represented what could probably be the last hurrah for mature romantic tearjerkers, paving the way for stories of teenagers and their first romances. Cathy Garcia-Molina's adaptation of Bianca Bernardino's She's Dating the Gangster, the Nicholas Spark-esque novelette about another lovesick girl falling for the coolest guy in the campus, could have gone the way all the...
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- 7/17/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Unless you speak Tagalog, chances are you're not well versed in the on-again, off-again, tepidly romantic escapades of twentysomething Filipino media mogul Miguel "Miggy" Montenegro (John Lloyd Cruz) and former executive assistant Adelaida "Laida" Magtalas (Sarah Geronimo), as seen in 2008's A Very Special Love and 2009's You Changed My Life. The final leg of director Cathy Garcia-Molina's exceptionally broad, partly English-dubbed cockles-warmer of a trilogy outright apes Hollywood rom-com formulas with a personality so affably lobotomized it wouldn't dare frighten delicate tastes. Suddenly the black sheep of his family's empire due to a poor investment two years prior, Miggy is demoted to mere top dog of Flippage Publishing, a magazine company that produces glossies cal...
- 4/24/2013
- Village Voice
Perhaps the primary motivation for Cathy Garcia-Molina's Unofficially Yours is to craft a love story that has graduated from the conservative romances that the Catholic Church would give their blessings to. Not all love stories happily end with the first kiss. Some actually begin (and sometimes abruptly end) with a night of steamy intoxicated sexual intercourse. Garcia-Molina fluently communicates that motivation for the most part. She has her characters copulating without the blessings of an official relationship. Their coffee breaks hardly involve caffeine, just intense amounts of lust and sexual attraction. In a way, Garcia-Molina has successfully created celluloid-bound lovers who not only have romantic hearts but also working hormone-producing gonads. Unfortunately, the demands of marketability prevents the film from truly being about men...
- 2/19/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A romantic comedy that seeks to reinforce the love team between singer-turned-actress Sarah Geronimo and Big Brother housemate-turned-matinee idol Gerald Anderson, Raz de la Torre's Won't Last a Day Without You does not stray far from the established story map and intention of a merchandized movie. It is feel-good, fun, funny, and extremely charming, like most of what Star Cinema has been mindlessly producing the past several years. The film is undoubtedly a product of formula, and quite surprisingly, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. De la Torre is not exactly a newcomer. He wrote Cathy Garcia-Molina's A Very Special Love (2008) and co-wrote with other writers Garcia-Molina's You are the One (2006) and You Got Me (2007), two romances set in...
- 12/10/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Their love's on a rush. Eugene (Sam Milby), a shoe designer who insists on always being on top of his game, is always on the go. Raffy (Kc Concepcion), on the other hand, is making what remains of her life count. They meet in an adventure camp. They fall in love, forcing Eugene to finally admit defeat and allowing Raffy to touch one more life before her predictable demise. Cathy Garcia-Molina's Forever and a Day suffers from a bad case of extreme tastefulness. It is unfortunate that Garcia-Molina, who almost always supplants the mainstream imprints of her films with subtle inventiveness and distinctive charm, seems powerless to the dullness of the film's unfortunate script. It is a dullness that is only worsened by...
- 6/24/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Cathy Garcia-Molina's My Amnesia Girl has all the trappings of detestable formula. Like all of the romantic comedies that preceded it, the ones that have given Star Cinema the ill-repute of dumbing down its followers with rehashes of the same story, by the film seems to be relying solely on kitsch, on star power, on everything artificial. There is no denying the film's use of kitsch. In fact, the film is quite unabashed with it, with characters strangely enveloped by a culture of love reigning supreme over everything else. It is adamantly unpretentious, relishing on the obvious fact that it has in its service of fun an abundance of cute and hip. It does not aspire anything more than to recharge its audience's thirst for spritely romance, the one that is less attached to reality, the one that mines on the mysteries of fate to add magic to it.
- 12/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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