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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"REMEMBRANCE OF MOVIES PAST"



Written in 1963, the late writer-poet Andres Cristobal Cruz wrote a very nostalgic piece on Philippine movies. Titled "Remembrance of Movies Past," the article traces the author's experiences, from grade school, high school to college and his insights on various movies, both local and foreign---


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Source: The Insurance Line/ A Magazine on Filipiniana
Published by the Insular Life-FGU Insurance Group
Series of 1963/ Number One

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2 comments:

TheCoolCanadian said...

Eating sardine inside a movie theater?

Holy cow! I've never experienced this when I was a kid in the Bicol region. He must have experienced all these in the late 40s and early 50s. I met him in the 1970s at NMPC. For some reason, I had been confused between Adrian Cristobal and Celso Al Karunungan. The confusion had ended only after I've met Mr. Cristobal.

The events in the article seemed to have happened eons ago, running after the karetela and jamming with GI Joes. He-he.

Priceless.

He must have passed on? We haven't heard from him

December 1, 2010 at 12:20 PM
Video 48 said...

Tito Andy is a family friend. He passed away years ago.

December 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM

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