Serbis

Serbis is an indie film directed by Brillante Mendoza in 2008. It is about a movie house that offers more than just movies. They offer sexual service but the difference is, it's a man-to-man intercourse.

Starring Gina Pareno, Jacklyn Jose, Coco Martin, Mercedes Cabral and more.

It has a unique way of telling that life is never simple. Life is full of complications.

It was declared as the most controversial film in 2008 which is their key to be invited to the prestige 61st Cannes Festival.

The film has a superb plot but it's quality is low and their audio is sometimes awful.

Movie Workers Welfare Foundation Inc.

As of one of the requirements for my Cinema Class, we are obliged to join the tour to Mowelfund. It is a museum which showcase the Philippine Cinema's oldest and fresh-est products.

For you to have an access you must pay P100 for one ticket and you can enjoy all the features inside the museum.

They also have international artists like Charlie Chaplin. The museum contains a horror room which has all the monster and other creatures used in some of the unforgettable films like 'Tiyanaks' and more. And it has an exclusive section just for 'The King of Phil. Cinema" Fernando Poe, Jr.

All in all, it was a great experience. Too bad we aren't able to watch the short film they've prepared for us but it was a blast.

French New Wave

French new wave is an example of European art cinema.

It is "La Nouvelle Vague" in french. It was a blanket term from film critics for a group film makers of the late 1950s-60s.

They normally reject films from literary period pieces made in France and written by novelist.

Their works are more often documentary types. Shooting local situations and less editing.
Their films contain direct sounds from the scene that requires less light. Its techniques are fragmented, long takes and most of the time, discontinuous editing.

Breathless (French: À bout de souffle; literally "at breath's end") is directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1960, it's his first feature-length movie and one of the earliest, most influential film in the French New Wave. It became a big hit for its bold visual style and their innovative use of jump cuts.

Film Industry in the Philippines

It all started when the first moving picture in the country was introduced in January 1, 1897 at the Salón de Pertierra in Manila.The next year, ordinary scenes in the area were shot on film for the first time by a Spaniard, Antonio Ramos, using the Lumiere Cinematograph.

On September 12, 1919, a silent feature film broke the grounds for Filipino filmmakers. 

Dalagang Bukid (Country Maiden), a movie based on a popular musical play, was the first movie made and shown by Filipino filmmaker José Nepomuceno. Dubbed as the "Father of Philippine Cinema", his work marked the start of cinema as an art form in the Philippines.

And as of now, even though we're facing a lot of challenges and trials in our country, still Movies are well-appreciated by us, Filipinos. It is one of the most popular source of our entertainment. Employing 260, 000 filipino people and earning P2 Billion revenues annually.

Surrealism: Un Chien Andalou

Surrealism is a modern approach to film theory, criticism, and production. Originated from Paris in the 1920s.

The surrealist cinema is characterized as the rejection of drama and an often use of shocking imagery.

One of the Surrealist films is Un Chien Andalou by Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Deli. It was Buñuel's first movie and was released in 1929 with a limited showing at movie houses but later became widely popular and ran for eight months. 

This type of film has no plots, it starts in "once upon a time" then will jump to an "eight years later" scene without much progress. It uses dream logic in narrative flow.

Film School Generation

In the late 60s and early 80s a group of freshly graduated young men entered the industry of film making and started a new and exciting changes in Hollywood which is slowly going down.

They are bunch of young graduates from different film schools in U.S.A. that will inject fresher ideas and energetic approach of films to viewers that is vanishing at one point. Their young minds will be the tools to create a new hits in the Hollywood, blockbuster films that will be popular not in just one generation but to another.

These are some of the remarkable creations of the Film School Generation:

Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name. The prototypical summer blockbuster, its release is regarded as a watershed moment in motion picture history. In the story, a giant man-eating great white shark attacks beachgoers on Amity Island, a fictional summer resort town, prompting the local police chief to hunt it with the help of a marine biologist and a professional shark hunter.

 

Star Wars is an American epic space opera franchise centered on a film series created by George Lucas. The film series has spawned an extensive media franchise called the Expanded Universe including books, television series, computer and video games, and comic books.

 Taxi Driver is a 1976 American vigilante film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. The film is set in New York City, soon after the end of the Vietnam War.

Genre: Film Noir

 

Often known as the "black film". The french-term "Film noir" is a film genre about violence, grudges, hatreds, crimes. And it can't come without seduction. This genre was inspired by German Expressionism.

The debate about what the film genre provokes and what is its category is still unresolved. "We'd be oversimplifying things in calling film noir oneiric, strange, erotic, ambivalent, and cruel": this set of attributes constitutes the first of many attempts to define film noir made by French critics Raymond Borde and Etienne Chaumeton in their 1955 book Panorama du film noir américain 1941–1953 (A Panorama of American Film Noir), the original and seminal extended treatment of the subject. They emphasize that these five definitions aren't always equal and present in film noir. Sometimes, it's focused on violence, some dreamlike. There's no accurate category for it.

Film Noirs are always taken during night time, because it contributes more mystery and more impact to a film. The shadows and smokey effects of every scene makes it more dramatic.