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- John Santos
- Vicenza, Italy
- Stuck in Italy, hopefully for a little while longer.
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8 comments:
I thought you were in the states? Might be in Quiapo one of these days to check with the editor.
Yeah, but plans of going back to Manila are currently in the works. My relatives have become tired or rolling their eyes everytime I ask for titles. They think it odd that they ask for Spiderman and I ask for Sanda Wong...
Aha. Alright let me know when you're around
Thanks for the invite buddy, I'll make sure to let you know when my plans go through.
Make sure not to buy from those outside the stalls offering DVDs at a bargain price (3 for 100 pesos or 4 for 100 pesos). Most likely, they are damaged, incomplete movie, or cannot be played in your dvd player. But if you want to get classic foreign films (Kurosawa, Bergman, Einsenstein, Renoir, etc.),and other hard to find films, Quiapo is the place for you, kailangan matiyaga ka lang maghanap. It is there where I got some of the great classic films like Tokyo Story, The Bicycle Thief, The Birth of the Nation, Strike, A Soldier's Story, Umberto D, Sunset Boulevard, Cimarron, and many more.
When it comes to rock-bottom prices on DVDs, Chinatown has taught me never to trust copies that are just way too cheap. Usually, for the price of the numerous times one has to re-purchase until one hits a copy that really works, you might as well have bought the legit version.
What I would probably go for are the films that are released elsewhere but not on Region 1 DVD, or the films that are out of print, such as Black Rain or Salo. Do you know if they sell Latin American films as well? I think I might just have to sell my soul for a plane ticket to Manila if they sell classic films such as Rosaura a las Diez (in its original cinemascope), Amulet of Ogum, or La Perla. If there are also stalls that sell classic Korean, Indonesian, and Thai films up to the 80s, I might just have to give myself up to the devil to be his little film geek bitch.
I have not come across with those films (yet). Halo-halo na kasi. Mostly are Japanese, Russian, Italian classic films. But if I found those films, I will let you know.
Oy salamat ha! And if you do come across those films, I highly recommend that you see them as well, especially Rosaura a las diez which I argue is the best re-working of Rashomon's theme (even better than Rashomon itself, I think) and one of the best films ever made.
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