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I’m Making A List And Checking It Twice: Towards a List of My Favorite Movies of the Decade.

Is it time for a Best Films of the 2000s list yet? (Because if not, I’ll be reposting this at the end of 2010, and removing the two films below from 2000.) The list will probably undergo numerous revisions — obviously because the films from the second half of the decade will get short shrift, [...]

Posted 06 September 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

RIP Alexis Tioseco and Nika Bohinc.

The first impulse is always one of love. The more films I saw, specifically local independent films, the more I wanted to see. The deeper I got, the more responsibility I felt, the stronger the need to do something, to share that which I found beautiful. Writing in English, I never felt much of a [...]

Posted 02 September 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (1) °

Some Thoughts after Seeing Lee Isaac Chung's “Munyurangabo”.

Lee Isaac Chung’s Munyurangabo (2007) has been one of the more critically-acclaimed releases of the year so far, and the rave reviews alone should have spurred viewers into theaters. But surely its “exotic” provenance – made by a Korean American director, filmed entirely in the language of Kinyarwanda, written by two Americans (Samuel Anderson, the [...]

Posted 26 June 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (8) ° Tagged:

Thirty Random Things.

The most-read page on this blog, which I find kind of odd, is the About page. (Second is my entry on Slumdog Millionaire.) The About page is something that WordPress attaches automatically when you make a page for the first time. I never gave much thought to it, just pasting a post from my other [...]

Posted 10 June 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (0) °

Around the Bay, April / May 2009.

Oh how I love the SF International Film Festival. What I’ll be watching, in alphabetical order (and I’d probably add more if it weren’t for a vacation, commuter insanity, and a 9-5 job in the way): – Chiang Hsiu-chiung, Artemisia – Dante Lam, The Beast Stalker – Lee Anne Schmitt, California Company Town – Ruel [...]

Posted 31 March 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Around the Bay, February / March 2009.

The 27th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival schedule is finally out! But a quick Filipino film-related aside first: You can get a good heady dose of Filipino cinema the weekend of March 20, as Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis is opening at the Embarcadero, with Lav Diaz’s monumental 10-hour In the Land of the Encantos [...]

Posted 11 February 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

A Brief Announcement.

Readers who know me only through this blog (and there aren’t that many readers anyhow) may be interested in my old blog, The Wily Filipino, which I’ve just imported into WordPress. Almost all of my movie-related entries have been imported into film, eyeballs, brain, with the exception of those that generated some interesting comments — [...]

Posted 13 January 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (0) °

Around the Bay (January / February 2009).

A brief pause from the movie reviews while I geek out and set up my tentative East Bay-biased big-screen schedule for the next two months: Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley will be premiering Che and Waltz with Bashir on Jan. 16; Scott Walker: 30 Century Man and Wendy and Lucy follow the weeks after with one-week [...]

Posted 04 January 2009 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (0) °

Entry on Wayne Wang.

I have an entry on the director Wayne Wang on one of my other blogs, American Pop. It’s called The Saga of Wayne Wang and will probably inaugurate a whole series of reviews (if not a full-on retrospective) of his work to date. href=”http://filmeyeballsbrain.com/2008/09/15/entry-on-wayne-wang/”>

Posted 15 September 2008 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

In Vino Veritas.

Setting: Express checkout lane, Safeway. Woman at register [eyeing my bottle of 2006 Coppola Pinot Noir]: Now, sir, are you buying that because you like drinking it, or just to taste it? Me: I’ve never had it. Woman: How do you pronounce that? Cop-PO-la? Me: Well, he pronounces it COP-pola, but back in Italy they [...]

Posted 31 August 2008 † Benito Vergara § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,