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Philippine Cinema 2017: 10 Best Edited Films
1 – Respeto (Lawrence Ang) 76 points 2 – Changing Partners (Marya Ignacio) 60 points 3 – Balangiga: Howling Wilderness (Carlo Francisco Manatad) 26 points 4 – Bliss (Jerrold Tarog) 25 points 5 –...
View ArticlePhilippine Cinema 2017: Best Music/Soundtrack
1 – Ang Larawan (Music: Ryan Cayabyab; Lyrics: Rolando Tinio) 68 points 2 – Respeto (Original Score: Jay Durias; Songs: Various artists) 57 points 3 – Changing Partners (Vincent de Jesus) 36 points 4 –...
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Philippine Cinema 2017: 10 Best Short Films
1 – Fatima Marie Torres and the Invasion of Space Shuttle Pinas 25 (Carlo Francisco Manatad) 45 points 2 – Sorry for the Inconvenience (Carl Adrian Chavez) 28 points 3 – Aliens Ata (Glenn Barit) 22...
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Philippine Cinema 2017: Best Film Festivals
After just five years of existence, QCinema is now the festival to beat in terms of local and international offerings. It is closely followed by C1 Originals, which last year also featured...
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The best local film scenes of 2017
You never really know what kind of moments stick with you months after a movie comes out. For our invited voters, below are the ten most memorable scenes in Philippine cinema in 2017. This list is part...
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Respeto tops 2017 film poll, named best in 6 other categories
Respeto, Treb Monteras II’s debut film about a young rapper living in a Manila slum who meets his match in an aging poet living in his neighborhood, tops the Pinoy Rebyu poll of the best in Philippine...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 80-71
80 Señorita (Isabel Sandoval, 2011) Wanting to quit sex work in Manila and start a new life, Donna (Isabel Sandoval), a transgender woman, gets her chance when an old friend asks her to look...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women
In celebration of Women’s Month, Pinoy Rebyu presents the results of our poll of the best Filipino films helmed by women directors. Filipino female directors make up less than 10% of the total number...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 70-61
70 Nanay Mameng (Adjani Arumpac, 2012) Nanay Mameng delves deep into the character of a woman (Carmen “Nanay Mameng” Deunida) who has experienced extreme poverty and domestic violence and rose...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 60-51
60 Got 2 Believe (Olivia Lamasan, 2002) A photographer (Rico Yan) publishes a series of pictures detailing a lovelorn wedding planner’s (Claudine Barretto) many embarrassing moments as a perpetual...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 50-41
50 Shift (Siege Ledesma, 2013) Estela (Yeng Constantino), an idealistic call center slacker is mentored by Trevor (Felix Roco), a pragmatic senior agent. Their interaction develops into an...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 40-31
40 Sid & Aya: Not a Love Story (Irene Emma Villamor, 2018) Sid (Dingdong Dantes) is a guy who suffers from insomnia. Through the many lonely nights, he meets Aya (Anne Curtis). Who is she,...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 30-21
30 Nervous Translation (Shireen Seno, 2017) Eight year-old Yael (Janna Agoncillo), shy to a fault, lives in her own private world. One day she finds out about a pen that can “translate” the...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, 20-11
20 Ang Huling Cha-Cha ni Anita (Sigrid Andrea Bernardo, 2013) A 12-year old Anita (Therese Malvar) falls in love with the new woman in town (Angel Aquino); years later, a girlhood crush blossoms...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, Top 10
10 Sana Maulit Muli (Olivia Lamasan, 1995) Agnes (Lea Salonga) and Jerry’s (Aga Muhlach) relationship becomes distant when Agnes migrates to America. 9 Anak (Rory Quintos, 2000) After working...
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100 Best Filipino Films Directed by Women, Individual Ballots
Nestor Abrogena, Jr. (Writer/Director, Ang Kwento Nating Dalawa) Muro Ami- Marilou Diaz Abaya Transit- Hannah Espia Oda Sa Wala- Dwein Baltazar Never Not Love You- Antoinette Jadaone Nervous...
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The 50 Most Well-Loved Pinoy Films of the 2010's (The top 10)
10. Ma’ Rosa Brillante Mendoza, 2016 Ma’ Rosa (Jaclyn Jose) has four children. She owns a small convenient store in a poor neighborhood of Manila where everybody likes her. To make ends meet, Rosa and...
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The 50 Most Well-Loved Pinoy Films of the 2010's
The 2010s in Philippine cinema saw the continuous resurgence of independent filmmaking that emerged in the 2000s brought about by digital technology and facilitated by institutions that provide seed...
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Filipino Film Person of the Decade
As we noted in the introduction to our decade poll, the 2010s in Philippine cinema saw the expansion on the huge gains made the previous decade, with the continued rise of independent filmmaking....
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Philippine cinema's best scenes of 2019, part 1
For our 2019 poll, we have invited 37 film reviewers to name their favorite scenes of 2019. Below is the first part, featuring behind-the-scenes commentaries of the filmmakers. The Scene of the Year...
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