articles by Francis Joseph Cruz
Evolution of a Filipino Film Lover
Berlinale Talent Press, February 01, 2011
Evolution of a Filipino Film Lover I'm sure it did not happen deliberately, like a well-hatched plan from an expertly crafted heist film. And unlike dear Alexis Tioseco's important pronouncements about film criticism, that it be fueled not by anything else but love, my almost accidental ...
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A View From a Room
Berlinale Talent Press, February 12, 2011
A View From a Room From the Berlinale Forum 2011, DAY IS DONE by director Thomas Imbach invites viewers to re-think their perspective of the mundane - there is certainly more than meets the eye here. A plane passes through a passive sky that serves as background to an industrial chimney ...
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Colorful Shadows
Berlinale Talent Press, February 14, 2011
Colorful Shadows Animation expert Michel Ocelot visits the Berlinale with his unique 3D puppetry film TALES OF THE NIGHT. Nightly collaborations by a boy, a girl, and a master technician give rise to tales that burst with magic in Michel Ocelot's TALES OF THE NIGHT. It is impossible even ...
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A Woman in this World of Men
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2011
A Woman in this World of Men Active in Berlin as the Jury President of the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, actress Isabella Rossellini visited the Campus to discuss her craft and love of juries. In his scathing review of David Lynch's BLUE VELVET, Roger Ebert laments that Isabel ...
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The Actors and the Alchemist
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2011
The Actors and the Alchemist A conversation with Beatrice Kruger, casting director for filmmakers such as Tom Tykwer and Anton Corbijn. Beatrice Kruger, casting director for Tom Tykwer's THE INTERNATIONAL and Anton Corbijn's THE AMERICAN, sat among actors from countries like Belgium, Ira ...
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You and Me Against the World
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2011
You and Me Against the World The Berlinale Retrospective offers a chance to rediscover an early gem by Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman - a review of IT RAINS ON OUR LOVE. They meet by chance in a train station. Maggi (Barbro Kollberg) is a woman who wishes to go home upon learning that sh ...
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