Read The Rich Tradition of Filipino Embutido in the New York Times.
After reading this piece we looked up Elvie’s Turo-Turo in the East Village and found out that it has closed. Nooooo!
Good, cheap embutido: Teresita’s of Guagua.
We haven’t been to New York in years. We should go this year.
As Nessa Stein, the Anglo-Israeli title character of the BBC mini-series The Honourable Woman, Maggie Gyllenhaal looks like she needs a good, long nap. She enunciates each syllable carefully, draws out her sentences, slowly elongates her neck and stretches her limbs like a languid giraffe. She can’t even stand straight without clutching the rostrum, one leg crossed in front of the other as if for balance. It’s a wide-awake star turn that keeps us entertained throughout the labyrinthine turns and deceptions of the drama written, directed and produced by Hugo Blick.
Read our review at The Binge in BusinessWorld.
3. Torn Curtain. In one of the Hitchcocks we’d never seen, Paul Newman plays an American nuclear scientist who is apparently defecting to East Germany. His plan is nearly foiled when his sniveling secretary/fiancee Julie Andrews thinks he really is defecting and follows him to East Berlin.
“Somehow we couldn’t believe Paul Newman was a nuclear scientist,” we told Noel. “Hitchcock must’ve known it, too, because when Newman writes equations on the blackboard he doesn’t show them.”
“But if Paul Newman circa 1965 looked at you, would you believe it?” Noel said.
“We’d nominate him for a Nobel Prize. May tao palang walang chemistry with Paul Newman: si Julie Andrews. He had more chemistry with Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy.”
“And Marlon Brando!” Noel reminded us. Look it up.
4. The Shop Around The Corner. This jewel by Ernst Lubitsch, the template for every single romantic comedy in which the lovers hate each other at first sight, has never been surpassed.
5. Raiders of the Lost Ark. Our sister was flummoxed when our 8-year-old niece told her, “Mommy, Frozen is sooo last year.”
“Why?” we asked. “What is It this year?”
“My point is, she said ‘sooo last year’.”
“Then show her the Indiana Jones movies and tell her they’re sooo 30 years ago.”
“I’m afraid she won’t enjoy them and I’ll weep.”
6. The Babadook
There’s a monster in The Babadook, a creature out of a children’s storybook that looks like a coat and hat hanging on a rack. It’s not that scary, but after the Australian director Jennifer Kent has had a half-hour to mess with your head, you’ll be primed to jump at every knock on the door. Like the most effective horror movies, The Babadook provides the plot and atmosphere and lets the viewers scare themselves. Bring Your Own Monsters! The result is a clever and visceral horror feast, a compendium of terrors beginning with the one that cannot be named: the fear of not loving your child.
If anyone knows when The Babadook will open in local theatres, give us a holler and we’ll do a full review.
TOKYO, Jan 06, 2015 (AFP) – Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami is to offer advice to troubled readers in an agony uncle column on his website, his publisher said Tuesday.
The website, named “Murakami-san no tokoro” or “Mr. Murakami’s place” will solicit problems from fans of the surrealist, whose novels are published in dozens of languages around the world.
The publicity-shy writer will pen answers to queries, offering his opinions and advice on how to tackle all manner of difficulties, said Shinchosha Publishing.
“He will receive questions of any kind,” a company spokesman said, adding that he will answer queries written in a variety of languages.
Murakami will also answer fans’ questions on his likes and dislikes — including cats, a favourite animal of his, and the Yakult Swallows, the Japanese baseball team he supports.
Problems and queries will be accepted until the end of January, and Murakami’s answers will be published over the following two months.
The scheme echoes a similar project in 2006, and offers a rare chance for Murakami’s legions of fans to communicate directly with a writer who spends much of his time hiding from the glare of the media.
“After so long, I want to exchange emails with readers,” Murakami was quoted by the publisher as saying.
Murakami is one of Japan’s best known writers and has repeatedly been tipped as a future Nobel Literature laureate.
The 65-year-old, who reportedly spends much of his time in the United States, has a cult following for his intricately-crafted tales of the absurdity and loneliness of modern life, and peppers his work with references to pop culture.
The website’s URL or email address for questions is not yet available, the publisher’s spokesman said.
Dear Uncle Haruki,
There are many cats in your books. Do they get royalties? I ask because I get written up by my human who pays me in cat food and I wonder if it is fair.
Yours truly,
Drogon
New year, new record.
1. The Green Ray. We had seen this a few years ago, but as with many Eric Rohmer movies we weren’t sure we had. We couldn’t recall the plot, because nothing much really happens in Eric Rohmer movies. A young man walks around the neighborhood where his crush lives, hoping to run into her. A young man waits for his girlfriend to show up, meets another girl and hits it off. A man gets stranded at a woman friend’s house by a snowstorm and spends the whole night wondering if he should sleep with her. You get the drift. The situations are so banal yet the characters’ thought processes are so interesting that we cannot tune out.
In The Green Ray, a woman can’t decide how to spend her summer vacation. That’s about it, plot-wise, except for the bit about a Jules Verne novel. But it’s riveting, and by the end we’re screaming “What! You can’t stop there! What happens next?”
Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo photo from InterAksyon.
2. Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo
The history looks correct but let’s not forget that this is not a school report but a movie, and the root word of movie is move.
Robin Padilla goes through all the poses: Monumento, UP Vinzons Hall, and so on. We expect a line of action figures.
Whenever the movie threatens to achieve any momentum, it is interrupted by the framing device in which Daniel Padilla is a high school student working on a school project at the KKK Museum. On the other hand, we learned that there is a KKK Museum.
As the museum custodian, Eddie Garcia is moved to tears because Bonifacio is called a traitor. As far as we know, Bonifacio is still generally considered a hero, it’s only the Aguinaldo biopic El Presidente that portrays him as a traitor.
After the end credits, which we sat through because we were discussing Bonifacio, there is a stinger which teases the Antonio Luna biopic. It’s the 1896 Revolution Cinematic Universe! That would make Robin Padilla’s Bonifacio Groot. Because he dies but lives on, what did you think we meant?
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