In The Mood For Love first scenes
Seen at Paris-Photo, German-born, China-based Michael Wolf’s Tokyo Compression series, taken on the city’s subway, is literally breathtaking. Faces of Tokyo commuters are pressed up against condensation-soaked windows, creating small pools of mist as they breathe in and out, struggling for air.
Mouchette Finally Gets Noticed →
In the latest Italian Film Festival 2011 held at Greenbelt 3, Cinema 3 was reserved to showcase some of the best from two famous Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Dario Argento plus a showcase of films from Filipino director Brilliante Mendoza. Last Sunday evening I got to watch two films from the festival in which it included Bertolucci’s The Dreamers (starring Eva Green, Michael Pitt and Louis Garrel) as it’s last film for the festival at the said venue. For those like me who have seen the film more than once, you may notice several film references from these film buffs played by the said talented actors in the film. The last one, of which featured a 1967 film by Robert Bresson wherein the heroine of the film’s same movie title is shown rolling on the ground and into a river/lake. This film is entitled Mouchette. To read on further on a little preview of this film, please do click on the link above.
I am color…blind
Coffee black and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am
taffy stuck, tongue tied
Stuttered shook and uptied
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am…fine
I am covered in skin
No one gets to come in
Pull me out from inside
I am folded, and unfolded, and unfolding
I am
color…blind
Coffe blach and egg white
Pull me out from inside
I am ready
I am ready
I am ready
I am fine
I am fine
I am fine
He stares from afar. But turns away to listen to her laugh. I sit there, silently. Shaking the feeling off. I stare back, and they’re both gone.
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My love for you is like Twitter: short, erratic, I might miss something important if I step away for 5 minutes and I keep sending you somewhere else to get the full experience.
My love for you is like Facebook: I’m always changing our dating parameters, and I constantly over-share our info.
My love for you is like Tumblr: I don’t think about it much, but I really miss it when you’re not available.
My love for you is like Instagram: the filter I view it through matters
Vindication for Christopher Lao
Last August, Christopher Lao became an infamous internet sensation and a victim of taunts and satires by social media users when he drove his car directly into a flooded street causing it to drift in the flood. When interviewed by GMA News Reporter Jun Veneracion, who happened to be shooting within the vicinity, he told the latter the now-famous line “I should have been informed”, saying that signs should be put in the area.
In today’s social media age when information can spread faster than before, one’s mistakes or boo-boos can easily be exaggerated and then taunted and ridiculed afterwards. And Mister Lao was one of its victims.
But now, Christopher Lao is back, still with a flooded car, but starring in a commercial for BPI.
Lao plays himself repeating the same words, including the now-famous quote, “I should have been informed,” that he uttered to GMA reporter Jun Veneracion, who is played by an actor in the commercial for BPI.
“This is my way of saying yes to life,” Lao told GMA News. “Some good finally came out of this crisis. It became an opportunity. I can now pay for the tuition of my daughter.”
Lao is currently studying for the bar exam next month, but took time off to shoot the commercial last weekend.
The commercial ends with the graphic, “Nature doesn’t inform you.” BPI used Lao to pitch its auto loans that come with one year free insurance covering acts of nature. The ad is expected to air in cinemas as well as on BPI’s YouTube channel.Karma is not always a bitch. And Christpher Lao is the perfect example that one can use his down moments in life to rise up again and make something wonderful out of it.
Christopher Lao is back! Who’s laughing now?
Elsewhere:
- Read the whole story on GMANews.TV. Yes, especially you who Laughed Out LAOd (pun intended) last August.
- Christopher Lao is on Twitter. And his description says The genuine I should have been informed driver. Cool guy.
(via juanrepublic)
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