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Technophilia
Pera-perahang Lata (Penny from the Tin Can)
Aninag (Light’s Play)
Karsel (Prison)
It’s almost time for the pitch for our initial plans for our shorts. This includes the story, treatment and other key aspects of the production. Here’s my synopsis for the initial pitch…
“Project Bernardo Carpio” Synopsis:
Bernardo struggles to free himself from his chains, while he also duels with the powerful entity who led him to his demise under the mountains of Montalban. This character-driven story depicts a rivalry that unveils an account of Bernardo’s life and the story behind “The Legend of Bernardo Carpio.”
With many, many, many months of production to go, of course, it is not impossible to have certain changes as the project develops. But here’s to chronicling how those developments progress…
About the film’s title, still on the works… suggestions/recommendations/advice are welcome!!
Yup! This trailer is talking to you!
After a successful completion and launch of our second project, “Pasintabi” and “Lines to Life” educational series, we are now opening membership to anyone who is willing and wants to help create an Original Philippine Animation Industry.
Visit our website to find out more about us, http://www.tuldokanimation.com,and if you want to help out, go to the community section,http://tambayan.tuldokanimation.com, there you will do two things:
1. Fill up a quick questionnaire how you can help out
2. Register in the forum.
Only registered members with approved application forms will have access to the exclusive forums to exchange ideas, submit concept art, and contribute in their own special way.
See you at the Tambayan!
-Tuldok Animation Studios Team
Tuldok Animation Studios is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to bring Filipino Artists together to create an Original Filipino Animation Industry.
We are a virtual studio and our previous projects have been built up using community driven efforts inspired by our local custom of “Bayanihan”.
Original music: “The Call” by Pepe Manikan
Now, Inception is more than just a leap of faith for filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
With its elements about powerful ideas, dreaming in a dream, and dreaming inside other people’s dreams, Inception is one entertainingly hard-core, multi-layered mindbender. This motion picture masterpiece is one of the strongest science-fiction concepts to come in a long time. Nolan and his production team construct a breathtakingly audacious blockbuster narrative while not leaving the intelligent and more demanding film lovers behind.
Inception is nothing less than astounding. It dreams big, dreams deep, and creates challenging dreams to engage the wide-eyed dreamy viewers. In doing so, the film’s own thin line separating dream space and reality innovatively creates such a well-mounted story. It carefully blends the conscious and subconscious in various levels. It balances philosophical ideas and narrative tension within a labyrinthine plot that engages in various forms, degrees and intensities.
Whether for its visceral popcorn thrills, elegantly laid out action sequences, boldness and restraint, this ambitious film knows how to manipulate its thematic fetishes and its complicated narrative structure.
Like its own theme, Inception taps into the subconscious of each viewer in its relatively comprehensible way. Orchestrated by a crafting hand of a director who knows what he wants and how to make things happen, even the most obscure details get digested as the film cinematically sells its conceptual and emotional investments. It’s bold, intense, exhilarating, engaging, and impressive. It is complex yet coherent. It’s something that can benefit repeated viewings and feed the viewer with something new or different each time. Preposterous, yet ingeniously done, it offers such an entertaining ride. It serves as a popcorn flick, too!
While it is ambiguous enough to lead to conflicting opinions, the main purpose of the film is to engage the intellect about its theme and concept, not just merely figuring out which one is real, which one is a dream. While additional viewings are needed to personally provide a more solid analysis and opinion about the film’s ending, it seems more like the filmmaker crafts this opus in a way that there is no concrete interpretation to dictate to each and everyone that something is or is not.
The various elements, symbolisms, characterizations, and dialogues are carefully planted in a way that they work together to let the audience go beyond the need to figure out a twist or find out the “truth” behind the main story. Like how actual dreams are, Inception is open to different interpretations. And it does so without making specific aspects of it bug its quality down. It works in higher levels of film viewing that it touches something beyond a film viewer’s surface thinking, quite different from how s/he would typically treat other movies. And this is what makes Inception seem quite different from the usual. It is endlessly elliptical and it works in many facets. It allows its tagline “Your mind is the scene of the crime” validate itself; while its grand provisions for a visual feast keep up with the more palpable sense of its thrilling ride.
Inception isn’t perfect. Yet, its weak points are unquestionably shadowed by its brilliant and meandering machinations. The film splurges and invests in its concept, story, script, visuals, sound, emotions, and intellect, in accordance to how the film language can intangibly bring out all its cinematic ideas and values across.
Like Leonardo diCaprio’s character Cobb, Nolan is a meticulously skilled extractor and an architect of deep and provoking thoughts. He is a sly narrative tactician who juggles at big ideas and make people think about his idea. He takes the audience to a pleasurable trip through varying mental labyrinths filled with elegant dreamscapes and genuine human drama. It has a sort of paradoxical architecture of its own as Nolan offers a clockwork-precise showmanship in every scene. By the film’s ending, he impressively allows the characters to wake up from their dreams to figure out what’s real. Yet, whether for his film’s characters or for his film audience, things doesn’t really end there…
Inception is a rare movie project that can be enjoyed on a superficial and/or progressively deeper level of viewing. It uncannily fascinates the audience as the story moves further into the challenging layers of the subconscious mind. It is a work of a visionary. For all its high production values and budget requirements, this is the kind of film that the big movie studios should support more often.
July 24th, 2010 Posted by Rianne | Epic/Adventure, Film Review, Films, Films I Like, Flicks, Hollywood Films, Love Story, Melodrama, Sci Fi/Cyberspace, Surreal, Suspense/Thriller | no commentsPera-Perahang Lata (Penny from the Tin Can) Film Stills
Pera-perahang Lata (Penny from the Tin Can) is about the plight of a young man who tries to make up for his inconsiderate moves towards a needy stranger, but he ends up seeing another tragedy from it.
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Pera-Perahang Lata (Penny from the Tin Can) Behind-the-scene Photos
Pera-perahang Lata (Penny from the Tin Can) is about the plight of a young man who tries to make up for his inconsiderate moves towards a needy stranger, but he ends up seeing another tragedy from it.
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Eclipse Continues to Suck Blood Out of Pop CultureBy Rianne Hill Soriano
Twilight Saga: Eclipse is a compelling sequel certain to enthrall die-hard fans.
Twilight is now a legendary brand famous for its teenage angst, pale make-up, and otherworldly love triangle. Now a historical movie franchise breaking box office records worldwide, this third installment clearly marathons every opportunity to please fans. While they ultimately deserve more, this movie successfully utilizes the right blood type to fuel all its bankable possibilities. And whatever critics and non-fans say, its hard-core followers ultimately back up this romantic fantasy flick as an ultimate cash cow.
Eclipse is dull, boring, and overly dramatic; unless the viewer finds it therapeutic, entertaining, or orgasmic to see perfectly pale and powerful vampires and perfectly chiseled, shirtless werewolves making a regular girl happy on the big screen. If just for those, this movie is a sure winner. The movie marathons to as much close-ups and beauty shots while the actors and actresses try to put life to their clichéd lines. Add up some action to boost things up in between the many drags, and that’s about it.
Its vampire boy-meets-ordinary girl-meets werewolf boy story can already be effectively told in a short movie, but of course, the studio needs to prolong it as much as it can. To keep up with the feature-length movie requirement, Eclipse incorporates many visceral set pieces, stylistic flashbacks, and impassioned sentiments to keep the viewers hanging on to its swoony tale of forbidden love.
There’s no middle ground with the Twilight Saga: Either the viewer surrenders to the value of this movie version of the Stephenie Meyer bestseller or the viewer walks out feeling lifeless in disappointment. One thing is for sure, this film confidently provides the commercial requirements to make fans satisfied.
In its own mediocre level, Eclipse’s good points are its pretty good make-up, atmospheric feel, and art direction setting the mood for a sort of emotional pornography for teenagers. The “melodramatic crush factor” works well for those craving for such inner adolescent fantasies. The marketing strategy establishing the vampire-wolf division “Team Edward” and “Team Jacob,” along with the “in-Bella’s shoes” girl fantasies, is developed pretty well throughout the movie. It validates its teen-friendly demeanor where words overcome sexual urges and where fight scenes are meant for viewers who are only concerned about the protagonists winning and looking so cool with it.
Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, and Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black embrace their own sense of camp in this movie about teenage uncertainty, emotional highs and lows, and impassioned teenage love. It is not the stunning locations, special effects, or the plot that “Twilighters” will keep in mind, it’s the characters and their relationships that they shall remember.
Director David Slade taps into what Twilight fans want. He keeps it cold and lifeless in a way that the ultimate teenage fantasies about the characters become the full movie. The adolescents and the adolescents at heart don’t mind how characters shamelessly have their buttons pushed as long as they can relate to these characters’ own personal hurdles.
Eclipse manages to create a teen drama effectively utilizing its cheesy special effects to stage chaste, romantic tensions against the many scenic backdrops. It demonstrates adolescent longing and primal physical confrontations where the ultimate damsel in distress gets saved by not one but two “prince charmings,” not to mention their whole clans helping out.
For those seeking for a quality film offer, this 124-minute movie about convoluted passions and hormonal outrage cries out for life. It seeks for a life-saving blood transfusion. It is like watching two lovers looking at each other’s eyes and feeling the ultimate magic of being in love; while anyone not relating to it would most likely feel bored or apathetic.
With fans undoubtedly willing to get bitten, this third chapter in the Twilight Saga remains foremost a flick for devotees. Given the strength of this franchise, the least non-fans can wish for is for the next chapter/s to take the challenge of better quality over the shallowness of its comfort zone. If it continues to be this programmed and predictable, the only thing to remember it by is that it sucks the blood out of pop culture; while it leaves everybody else outside dead cold.
July 11th, 2010 Posted by Rianne | Adaptation and Films with Related Inspirations from Lit, Fantasy, Film Review, Films, Flicks, Hollywood Films, Love Story, Melodrama, Religion/Mystical/Supernatural, Youth/Teenybopper | no commentsList of Filmmakers Who Can Replace Guillermo Del Toro as Director for The Hobbit
This list is not simply categorized according to how their filmographies made them who they are. in the industry now. These choices explore a number of complicated aspects, perspectives, and considerations about each director’s works.
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Hellboy 2: The Golden Army Movie Review: High Fantasy Vs. Pop Culture Kitsch
Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is filled with visionary sense. It has a wide imagination and a heartfelt plea for environmental concern and cultural diversity. However, its spectacular sense of artistry could have worked much better…
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Movie Review: A Curious Narrative
Based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man who ages backwards, this far-fetched fairy-tale about the freakish birth of an infant born as an old man captures the sadness and exhilaration of life and the melancholic ideas concerning mortality.
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The Time Traveler’s Wife Movie Review: “Time Warping” Love and Destiny
The Time Traveler’s Wife takes the story of a couple who is led into the grandeur and sadness of life and the mystery of time. With its own mix of drama, romance, and science-fiction, is it really worth your time?
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The Legend of Zorro Movie Review: The Dela Vega Heroes
The Legend of Zorro tones down a bit by fronting the more human issues about family relationships as compared to the visually purist, action-filled premise driving the storyline on such an action genre.
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Crossing Over Movie Review: Interlocking Stories, Illegal Struggles, and Immigration
Forced, heavy-handed and overdone, Crossing Over gets so wrapped up in its quest for topical resonance that it forgets some of the basics of telling a good narrative,
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In Her Shoes Movie Review: More Than Just a Chick Flick
In Her Shoes actually has enough depth. This chick flick is a richly textured story about the reconnecting of two estranged sisters who have nothing in common but their shoe sizes.
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MANILA SKIES
DATE: SATURDAY, MAY 1
TIME: 7:30 PM
VENUE: DGA 2
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MANILA SKIES (Himpapawid)
(Philippines, 2009) Dir./Scr.: Raymond Red
Video, 110 min., color, narrative, in Tagalog w/ E.S.
In a rural province, a poor farmer finds a bag of money and jewelry. He pays off some debt and vows to send his young son away to the city to find a better life. He commands the boy never to return home. And, in one dramatic cut, from the boy carrying woven baskets on his shoulder to the boy as a man lifting large parcels at a Manila loading dock, we begin Raymond Red’s deceptively simple and affecting parable.
Ten years after winning the first Palme D’Or awarded to a Filipino for his sublime short film ANINO, and after refining his technical chops on big budget commercials, Raymond Red returns with MANILA SKIES, an allegorical tale of the slow deterioration of a man’s spirit when faced with insurmountable adversities. It follows Raul, a soon-to-be unemployed dock worker desperately trying to land an overseas job and hoping to make enough money to return home to his ailing father. Raul’s earnest attempts become mired in Kafkaesque bureaucracy and pure rotten luck. Much of the blame however rests on his volatile and erratic behavior. He is a percolating brew of misfortune and busted idealism. His inevitable breakdown leads to his involvement with a gang of amateur thieves and eventually a collapse that brings him to carry out a far-fetched attempt at hijacking an airplane in order to get back home to his father.
It’s perhaps a modest linear plot, but in Red’s hands, MANILA SKIES reaches heights uncommon in many films. A subtle twist here and a play with expectations there, and suddenly a whole world opens up revealing a radical and dramatic film heavy with consequences and colored with nuances. Vividly shot with, funnily enough, the über-high definition RED camera, Red photographs the city in a palette of subdued browns, greens, yellows and grays. Raul merely blends in with the faded and stained walls of his apartment, the deteriorating concrete buildings, and the cluttered cityscape. Raul is an everyman, pushed to the brink. In the film, he is a vessel for the frustrations of the impoverished in the Philippines (80% of the population are poor, as a reporter claims in the film). MANILA SKIES depicts his hopes crumbling as his own morals disintegrate along with it. In a country where a majority of its population is of Raul’s circumstance, the film poses a sobering and dire calamity.
— Joel Quizon
COMMUNITY CO-PRESENTERS: FilAm ARTS, Inc.; Search to Involve Pilipino Americans, Inc.
April 29th, 2010 Posted by Rianne | Films, Films I Like, Independent Films, Melodrama, Personal/Expression, Pinoy Films | no commentsWhiteout Movie Review: Frozen to Dullness in Antarctica
Whiteout is like the impending six months of darkness in Antarctica. Not with the chilling thrills, but with the total bore of staying inside a scientific research facility with only the endless stretches of Antarctic ice as companion.
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Twilight Movie Review: The Teen Bite of Twilight
The swoony supernatural romance and the neo-horror motif both amuses and bemuses – depending on the type of viewer.
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King Kong Movie Review: A Beastly Adventure
Jackson’s King Kong proves to be an enduring part of film history and legacy all over the world. If LOTR is a magical classic in complete greatness, King Kong is a monstrous adventure flick with mainstream feel.
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The Bucket List Movie Review: Filling the Bucket
The Bucket List generates both humor and drama about two terminally ill men who heads off outdoors to go for a trip around the world and explore a wish list of to-do’s before they die.
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Movie Review
The story centers on a tightly knit group of the four girls Lena (Alexis Bledel), Bridget (Blake Lively), Carmen (America Ferrera) and Tibby (Amber Tamblyn).
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Lucky You Movie Review: A Poker Life
Lucky You is a romantic drama set in the gambling world of Las Vegas where Huck Cheever (Eric Bana) lives his life around the green felt poker tables while also confronting his personal conflicts including his problematic relationship with his father.
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District 9 Movie Review: A Thinking Man’s Timely Sci-Fi
District 9 is a hybrid of a film, and it looks like a successful sort of anti-Hollywood venture for that. A brilliant social commentary.
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Adventureland Movie Review: ‘Roller-Coastering’ Towards Adulthood
Adventureland is a sweet, insightful and heartfelt coming-of-age story with loads of sensitivity and a genuine heart.
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Avatar Movie Review: Avatar is What Jaw-Dropping 3D Can Be
As a feat of fearless imagination and audacity, Avatar is a bold eco-opus examining technological wonders and morality.
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The Top 5 Best 3D Movies List
In the era of IMAX and Real 3D, the worldwide resurgence of 3D films hit the theaters with what stereoscopic 3D technology can offer
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Fans Converge in Stores for New Moon DVD Release
On the evening of March 19, 2010, the eve of the New Moon DVD release, fans flocked to the stores with high anticipation for their DVD copies that were finally getting available by midnight.
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Up Movie Review: Pixar Goes Up, Up and Away
Pixar’s “Up” further strengthens its impressive track record of making noteworthy animated films.
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Sa Pagdating (The Coming) Music Video by St. Francis Xavier Parish Grand Choir
Performance by: St. Francis Xavier Parish Grand Choir
Composition by: Philip Arvin Jarilla
Acknowledgments: Hit Productions, St. Francis Xavier Parish Church
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Kaibigan Music Video by Paul Arroyo
Kaibigan (Friend) Music Video. Philippines, 2009.
Composed and performed by Paul Arroyo.
Sound Engineer: Philip Arvin Jarilla
Special thanks to the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (Manila, Philippines) and Hit Productions (Makati City, Philippines)
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