Lé Baltar
Journalist and Critic at Freelance
Journalist and film critic | Member, @IFSCritics, @theOAFFC | Bylines in @rollingstoneph, @rapplerdotcom, @YoungStarPhils, @VICE, etc 📧 [email protected]
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3 days ago |
philstarlife.com | Lé Baltar
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2 weeks ago |
rappler.com | Lé Baltar
Since the inception of the ABS-CBN Film Restoration Project, popularly known as Sagip Pelikula, in 2011, project head Leo Katigbak has always intended for the restoration unit to be a long-term effort, only for that vision to be halted as the project took its bow on March 31, 14 years after rescuing over 240 classic Filipino movies.
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2 weeks ago |
philstarlife.com | Lé Baltar
Filipino auteur Lav Diaz returned to the Cannes Film Festival as Magellan (Magalhães), his historical opus on the famed Portuguese explorer, starring Mexican actor Gael García Bernal, debuted at the Cannes Premiere Selection of the 78th edition of the renowned spring festival. Magellan is already the Filipino director’s third film at Cannes.
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2 weeks ago |
rollingstonephilippines.com | Lé Baltar
Soundtracked by the grass work nearby, Dolly de Leon stands on elevated ground under a canopy of trees, a common fixture of the University of the Philippines Diliman, her alma mater. She tries to land the perfect pose, despite the sticky post-Holy Week heat, a glaring contrast to the frigid, biting winds of the Swiss Alps, the backdrop of the second season of Nine Perfect Strangers, the Hulu crime thriller series she now stars in with Nicole Kidman.
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2 weeks ago |
rollingstonephilippines.com | Lé Baltar
If it were only up to Lav Diaz, his latest historical opus, the 16th-century pictorial fresco Magellan, which just premiered at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, would run for 40 hours and most likely be shot in monochrome. “To let it just grow and grow,” he says, thirty minutes deep into our conversation alongside actor Hazel Orencio (who plays Reyna Juana in the film), a week before heading to Cannes.
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Me to Lav: Can you send me the nine-hour cut??
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