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A new graphic novella by Chris Ware

As usual, we don’t know where to start reading. The Last Saturday. New installments published in the Guardian every Saturday.

What did the rest of the outfit look like?

1,500-Year-Old Claws Intrigue Archaeologists in Peru By Alan Boyle Archaeologists in Peru say they have unearthed the previously unknown tomb of a nobleman from a pre-Inca civilization known as the Moche. The tomb contained the remains of an adult male, plus artifacts indicating the man’s elite status, according to the Peruvian newspaper El Comercio. Among […]

Norte is extended for 1 week at Glorietta and Trinoma cinemas. Thank You!

In this scene Eliza (Angeli Bayani), whose husband Joaquin has been wrongfully imprisoned for murder, confers with the lawyer who advised him to plead guilty. By popular demand Lav Diaz’s Norte, Hangganan ng Kasaysayan has been extended for one week at Glorietta in Ayala Center, Makati and at Trinoma in Quezon City. Schedule of daily […]

Art plus money is a spectator sport

We had gone to the auction last Saturday expecting something out of North by Northwest. Given recent news of fraud in the art market—a Luna being sold for Php55 million appears to be in a French auction catalogue for much, much less, only it’s by someone else—we were hoping for someone to yell “Fake!” and […]

Every movie we see #97: Luis Buñuel’s Wuthering Heights and the advantages of the shut-in life

How does a shut-in consumptive English spinster get to write Wuthering Heights? It is the most intense love story ever written, and Cathy and Heathcliff the craziest lovers in literature. Their relationship goes beyond possession, desire or wanting to live happily ever after: what they call “love” is the stuff of psychotherapy. It’s not just […]

Every movie we see: The Catch-up edition

85 – 88. Mariquina, Sundalong Kanin, K’na the Dreamweaver and #Y, reviewed during Cinemalaya week. 89. Under the Skin by Jonathan Glazer. Wonderfully weird and unsettling; Scarlett Johansson cements her iconhood as an alien sent to earth to seduce men. Who’s meat now? 90. The Search for Weng-Weng by Andrew Leavold. The best documentary on […]

So that’s what Guardians of the Galaxy comics look like

We’ve seen the movie three or four times but have never read the comics. Substantial changes have been made in the film adaptation, Peter Quill’s background, etc, but who cares? We love the movie, and the comics are terrific. Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) by Bendis et al, Php799; Guardians of the Galaxy (2008) by […]

In which life is a Russian novel, only funny

It occurred to us after our sixth viewing of Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan (for a total of one day and one hour spent watching the movie) that our life had begun to resemble a remake of Annie Hall, in which we were Alvy Singer (Woody Allen). In Annie Hall, Alvy and Annie meet at the […]

Ricky Villabona’s Head Space at Univers

Head Space, a series of collages by Ricky Villabona, is now on view at Univers. We imagine that entering Ricky’s head space would be like going to a disco theme park designed by David Lynch. Ricky talks about his installation here. Univers d’Homme et Femme is on the ground floor of East Tower One at […]

Where to write your book

We can’t write at home all the time because we get stir-crazy and the cats sit on the pages and engage us in a staring contest. We end up watching DVDs, binge-watching TV series, or reading books we forgot we had, or taking naps. We write in restaurants and noisy coffee shops where we’re forced […]