Through the years and decades, we’ve enjoyed and appreciated Nick Joaquin’s play, “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino,” in its various incarnations. We were introduced to it by Lamberto Avellana’s ...

MANILA, Philippines – Despite being snubbed at the initial MMFF screening, Ang Larawan finally made it to this year’s Magic 8. The movie adaptation also received a unanimous A rating from the Cinema ...

Finally—the movie version of “Ang Larawan,” starring Joanna Ampil, Rachel Alejandro and Paulo Avelino and produced by Celeste Legaspi and Girlie Rodis, opens Dec. 25. —PHOTO FROM CULTURTAIN MUSICAT ...

'Ang Larawan' is elegant, with each of its graceful movement so carefully designed to evoke a feeling of nostalgia for a time when things of beauty are truly and unsubtly beautiful If there is one ...

“We were told that musicals are not popular in Japan, and yet from the festival staff, Japanese press and audiences members who watched our first public screening, we got very positive reactions,” ...

So far, Hollywood hasn’t figured out how to bring the movie musical into the 21st century. From the razzmatazz of Moulin Rouge to the retro aspirations of La La Land, filmmakers have shoehorned ...

In the sepia haze, muted rays of suspended light paint a grisaille of the old Marasigan mansion in Intramuros. Bitoy Camacho remembers how it was when his friends Candida and Paula, spinster sisters, ...

Ang Larawan paints a beautiful picture of two headstrong sisters by successfully combining the elements of film and theater. “Kay sarap ng buhay noong araw…” Rachel Alejandro and Joanna Ampil sing in ...

Three directors — Topel Lee, EJ Salcedo and Roman Perez Jr. — were recently tapped to work on an erotic film, Larawan, Liko, Lipat, a unique trilogy with inter-connected episodes featuring the same ...

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The Ponce Enrile sisters, Armida Siguion-Reyna and Irma Potenciano, played Candida and Paula, in the 1990 production of the play, Larawan ng Pilipino Bilang Artista. Larawan was mounted at the ...