By Janine Cuenca-Dario, Stef Juan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Last updated 17:01:00 01/25/2008
MANILA, Philippines—Care for a TASTE of some local movie-making originality? UP Film Center’s Cine Adarna features acclaimed digital films from last year’s crop of Cinema One Originals from Jan. 28-31, Monday to Thursday. “Maling Akala” kicks off the showcase at 5 p.m. on Monday, then “Confessional” at 7 p.m. On Tuesday the marathon starts with “Altar,” followed by “Prinsesa” at 5 p.m., then “Tambolista” at 7 p.m. “Confessional” and “Altar” will be shown again on Wednesday and on Thursday, “Maling Akala,” “Tambolista” and “Princesa” make their encore on the last day. Tickets are available at P100 at the UP Film Institute Cine Adarna, UP Diliman Campus, Quezon City. Call the UP Film Institute at 926-2722 or 926-3640 for details.
FEEL the chill run up your spine in Martin Cabrera’s thriller “Condo”, now showing at Robinson’s Galleria’s Indiesine until Jan. 29. Kicking of Indiesine’s 2008, “Condo” tells the story of a security guard of a condominium who is trying to move on from his tragic past but is now taunted by a being from an empty condo unit. Starring Coco Martin, Arnold Reyes, Diana Malahay, Avi Siwa, Chx Alcala, Vice Ganda, Love Thadani, Jao Mapa, and Perla Bautista, based on a screenplay by Aloy Adlawan. Watch out for more of Indiesine’s line-up coming soon.
SEE beauty beyond what is skin deep as the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) starts its run of Vincent de Jesus’ “Skin Deep” on Feb. 1 to March 9. See through the eyes of various characters as they go in their quest to become beautiful at the Skin Deep Beauty Sanctuary. The Lucky Makeover Seven—an obese female call-center agent, a troubled married couple, a male model wannabe, a flamboyant florist, an abused housewife burned beyond recognition and the reigning Miss Artificial Beauty—go through different miracle procedures hoping to become more aesthetically acceptable to the cruel world outside. Featuring performances by award-winning and internationally-acclaimed stage actors Robert Seña, Isay Alvarez, and Bituin Escalante. Showing at the PETA-Phinma Theater [#5 Eymard Drive, New Manila, Quezon City]. Tickets are at P 300.00 each. Call 725-6244 or 725-0821 or email mpr@petatheater.com or petampro@yahoo.com.
LISTEN to Shakespeare’s words in Measure for Measure as Tanghalang Ateneo translates it into “Hakbang sa Hakbang” and set it in the disco-dancing era. Show’s run starts this Feb. 1 to 16, every Saturday at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Exhibit Hall, 3/F, Gonzaga Building, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City. Call (0918) 473-3137 or (0918) 815-1218.
EXPERIENCE “The World in Painting” at the Yuchengco Museum, [G/F RCBC Plaza, cor. Ayala & Sen. Gil Puyat Ave., Makati City, T: 889-1234]. The museum is open from Monday to Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibit features works of eight of Australia’s most distinguished contemporary artists, Gordon Bennett (also known as John Citizen), Amanda Davies, Diena Georgetti, Raafat Ishak, James Morrison, Boxer Milner Tjampitjin, Nancy Naninurra Napanangka and Elizabeth Newman. Show runs from Feb. 1-13.
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