Acquire Critic After Dark: A Review Of Philippine Cinema Edited By Noel Vera Rendered As Manuscript

Noel Vera on Critic After Dark: A Review Of Philippine Cinema

uniformed bank officer by day crunching numbers and filling out forms and arguing with government employees over the phone by night, film critic Noel Vera, sits in the darkest corner of the moviehouse, viewing or enduring the latest that Philippines cinema has to offer.


The articles collected in this book represent not quite half of what Noel Vera has written from the periodto, more than a decade of nearclandestine writings on cinema, Philippine and otherwise.
Noel Vera graduated in Legal Management at Ateneo de Manila, has an MBA from the University of Michigan Dearborn and was former officer of the Bank of the Philippine Islands.
In late, he walked into the newsroom of The Manila Chronicle and turned in a piece on Forrest Gump, possibly the first and only negative article on the film ever written in the Philippines.
He called two weeks later to ask when it might come out and learnt it was printed two days after submission, He has been a regular film critic since, In, he
Acquire Critic After Dark: A Review Of Philippine Cinema Edited By Noel Vera Rendered As Manuscript
moved to The Manila Times only months before Chronicle was closed by strike, In, he moved to Businessworld years before Manila Times was sold, This second move was prompted by editorial censorship of an unflattering Noel Vera graduated in Legal Management at Ateneo de Manila, has an MBA from the University of Michigan Dearborn and was former officer of the Bank of the Philippine Islands.
In late, he walked into the newsroom of The Manila Chronicle and turned in a piece on Forrest Gump, possibly the first and only negative article on the film ever written in the Philippines.
He called two weeks later to ask when it might come out and learnt it was printed two days after submission, He has been a regular film critic since, In, he moved to The Manila Times only months before Chronicle was closed by strike, In, he moved to Businessworld years before Manila Times was sold, This second move was prompted by editorial censorship of an unflattering read: honest article on a local filmmakers latest opus, He has denied responsibility for the closure of both papers, He is the Philippine correspondent of Cinemaya Magazine, a film digest based in New Delhi, India and occasional correspondent of Film International, a film magazine based in Tehran, Iran.
He has contributed articles to the Cambridge Book , the Hongkong International Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival, the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, and Cahiers du Cinema.
He has helped to develop and write the screenplay of Tikoy Aguiluzs Rizal sa Dapitan Rizal In Dapitan,, as a result sharing FAMAS Award for Best Story.
He has translated into English the screenplays of Mario OHaras Babae sa Bubungang Lata Woman On A Tin Roof,, Sisaand Pangarap ng Puso Demons,Jeffrey Jeturians Pila Balde Fetch A Pail Of Water,Chito Ronos Laro sa Baga Playing With Fire,Lav Diazs Burger Boysand Batang West Side West Side Avenue,for international screenings.
He has been consultant and programmer to the Cinemanila Film Festival, the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy, and the Singapore International Film Festival, sitelink.