Jane De Leon
Aside from the commemoration of Filipino comics legend Mars Ravelo’s 105th birthday, October is filled with back-to-back developments in “Darna: The TV Series,” which surely raised the excitement of the iconic superheroine’s fans for the upcoming ABS-CBN Entertainment offering.
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I CONFESS to being biased against Pio de Castro III’s Soltero ever since I heard the premise. A Filipino film about loneliness? Filipinos are some of the most gregarious people in the world the warmest, friendliest, most hospitable; the (darker side) fondest of gossip, of backbiting, of mob rule. Filipinos, I’d have said, are the least likely to know loneliness, particularly on the big screen; most Philippine cinema depict teeming slums full of corrugated shacks crammed with squatters. Filipinos know the despair of overcrowding, not loneliness.
But that’s not entirely true; one of Brocka’s best-known films (
Published February 10, 2021, 10:46 AM
Viewers will fall in love all over again with the romantic pairing of Kuh Ledesma and Christopher de Leon as ABS-CBN Film Restoration’s Sagip Pelikula Festival premieres the movie “Tinimbang Ang Langit,” along with other titles restored by ABS-CBN this February on KTX.PH.
The 1982 classic directed by Danny Zialcita brings the story of Victoria (Kuh), a struggling singer looking for a big break in the music industry. She meets the celebrated songwriter Joel (Christopher), who falls in love with her.
According to ABS-CBN Film Restoration head Leo Katigak, the movie suffered not only visual impairments, but also audio distortion that an alternative audio source abroad was used to help restore the movie’s sound.