Podcast episode 5 is up
Jessica and Budjette (He’s baaack! again!) shoot the breeze with writer-editor-filmmaker Pepe Diokno, winner of the Lion of the Future award for Best First Film (Engkuwentro) at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, and then nag him to cough up his second movie. With cameos by the back of George Clooney’s head, the whole Jeff Goldblum, and that guy who plays Ice-T’s partner in Law and Order. Plus: How to nearly get killed at a screening of E.T.
Episode 5: Talking Movies with Pepe Diokno is available here. Listen, download, subscribe via iTunes.
Thanks to Juan, Renmin, Manny, and JT’s Manukan!
Podcast quiz:
1. Why did certain people cry while watching Deep Impact?
2. Where will Pepe shoot his next movie?
3. What movie did genius director Celso Ad Castillo call “his Citizen Kane”?
4. How did Pepe get a seat on the flight home despite being late?
5. What is Pepe’s theory on the decline of Filipino movie production from the 1990s to 2009?
6. Which Hollywood star does Budjette do a killer impression of?
7. Which Oscar winner did Pepe shake hands with?
8. What happened to Pepe in the year and a half after he won two trophies in Venice?
Correct answers qualify for the raffle for this
Thanks to National Bookstore!
By the way, we mentioned that we’ve gone to film festivals as the director’s entire entourage, and in the nanosecond before we said “entourage” it occurred to us that we pronounce it in a French-y manner which sounds a bit pretentious so we experimented with a different pronunciation (ehn-tourazh) which just sounds weird. So back to ahn-tourazh.
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
September 17th, 2012 at 14:57
My answers are:
1. There’s a touching reconciliation scene between a daughter and her estranged father at a beach house.
2. Baguio
3. Nympha
4. He put his trophy (Orizzonti Price) on top of a counter.
5. Very high taxes (30% amusement tax and 12% VAT)
6. Brad Pitt
7. Colin Firth
8. He couldn’t worked.
September 17th, 2012 at 18:06
Budjette was referring to producers Golan Globus (Mehahem Golan and Yoram Globus). Theyre the ones who churned out Delta Force and other Chuck Norris films during the 80’s. Golan-Globus does sound close to Gold-blum. Pinag-isipan ko rin mabuti bago naalala. :-)
September 19th, 2012 at 04:39
1. Because the asteroids were coming anyway, they decided to go to the beach and embrace. But really, it was the special effects.
2. Baguio
3. The artsy bomba film, Nympha
4.By nonchalantly placing his trophy from the Venice Film Festival on top of a desk in an airport.
5. In the 1990s, the amusement tax is 30% and there’s also a VAT that would reach 12%, then 58% will be left and you still have to divide the earnings and the half goes to the theater. For you to make some money, you need to gross out at least thrice your budget. Filipino movies became prolific in again in 2009 because the tax is lowered to 10%.
6. Brad Pitt
7.Collin Firth
8. He couldn’t work for a year and a half. He was experiencing something like a stupor or a block.
December 23rd, 2012 at 00:47
I already got the book, Ms. Jessica. Thank you and National Bookstore!