Pambansang Museo ng Pelikula
It occupies two floors of the 7-storey Mowelfund Bldg. and it combines "scholarly and showbizzy".
"If we only wanted to attract fans, we could've just filled all the rooms with stars," said Nick Deocampo, museum curator and artistic director. There's a separate room dedicated to the five National Artists for Film -- Gerry de Leon, Lamberto Avellana, Lino Brocka, Ishmael Bernal and Eddie Romero -- but there's also a Jolina Magdangal mannequin somewhere. There's also a giant photo of 1950s love team Nida Blanca and Nestor de Villa. Here's the article about it:
Movie memories
First posted 10:46pm (Mla time) Aug 17, 2005
By Bayani San Diego Jr.
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on Page A26 of the August 18, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
FINALLY, if belatedly, a national film museum will open its doors to the public on Aug. 19.
Finally, because it is the first of its kind in the country. Belatedly, because Philippine cinema is about 108 years old.
“The first screenings were held at the Salon Pertierra on Escolta Street on Jan. 1, 1897,” according to Boots Anson-Roa, executive director of the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation Inc. or Mowelfund, which spearheaded the undertaking.
The museum comes a month after the sale of the laboratory facilities of LVN. The fate of the LVN Museum is still unclear.
LVN grant
Anson-Roa confirmed that Mowelfund was discussing with LVN management the possible transfer of the studio’s holdings to the Pambansang Museo ng Pelikula.
“We’ve already received a partial grant from the LVN Museum,” Anson-Roa told Inquirer Entertainment.
posted by sunnyday at
9:02 AM
6 Comments:
This is nice Sunny. It's good to know that some groups are making some progressive moves in PI. It makes us feel good about our culture and arts - its a moral booster.
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AsianSmiles, at 2:11 PM
Besides, its about time too that we build a "home" for the good old filipino artists and filmworks.
there's more to it than just a 'building', we are already talking about our heritage.
ps... good to know that Mowelfund is 'alive' again.. :)
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AsianSmiles, at 2:14 PM
Right you are! This is our heritage we're talking about here. I myself know very little about the local film industry in terms of history, highlights and the like. In fact, I'm not one of those who take much pride in our film industry *blush*
Maybe a tour of this musuem would knock some sense into me and show me what I need to know.
Besides, a trip to this museum is a great alternative to the typical mall-roaming, resto-hopping or movie-watching. Para maiba naman.
Anonymous, um thanks for passing by. Hope your business goes swell. =)
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sunnyday, at 9:10 PM
Hey greg!
So that's why your "old" blog suddenly disappeared...
Thanks, I'll pass by the new one soon. I guess I have lots to say and I can't stand keeping it all inside -- hence, the "rabid determination" to keep up with my blogs, heehee!
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sunnyday, at 9:00 AM
The local movie scene is stagnant and monotonous.
Look at the adventure-action stories being sold to the public? Many of them are the FPJ variation. The leading man is mauled at the start only to rise up victorious at the end of the film. Usually, actors cast into such role stays as they are for the rest of their entire acting career. Look at Joseph Estrada or FPJ himself. Have they even played the role of a doctor? A priest? Or a well intentioned lawyer? Once you’ve seen one of their role, you’ve seen it all.
Check out the comedian movies. Dolphy, an icon has been blurting out the same joke that he did since the 60’s. It’s so boring and one can wonder why it still draw some laughter from the older generation.
And Vilma and Sharon? Oh, they thrive on love triangles, playing “highly breed” woman while blurting “squatter” lines of dialogue.
The youth? The hope of the land? Well, they could not get themselves on their own merit as actors and actresses. They need to be “love-teamed” and create lies, intrigued, body exposure to be noticed.
Bottom line? The local movie industry does not have any tangible contributions to the society. It never endeavors to upgrade our morals and value. It is all interested in raking the profit. It does not bring in money to the country and it encourages ignorance destroy the moral fiber of the society.
What a waste!
joma
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Anonymous, at 4:08 PM
True, true. Tsk tsk.
But so as to provide a ray of hope, here are some flicks that I haven't seen but have heard good things about (while some of them I just somehow assume are positive contributions to the industry): Rizal, Tanging Yaman, Panaghoy sa Suba (or something like that, the one starring Cesar Montano), another one with Montano in the lead but the title of which I forget -- basta it's got something to do with the moon; Bagong Buwan? New Moon?).
Oh, and there's something I've yet to watch -- Riles. It's a documentary, though, not really a commercial film.
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sunnyday, at 8:55 AM
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