An Introduction

Someone said a true cinephile remembers his first film as one regards his/her first kiss. I'm disappointed to say that I don't have that kind of memory. Frankly, I'm just like most moviegoers who love watching films for the fun of it. I do however remember the picture that probably made me fall in love with film itself - Francois Truffaut's "Day for Night", which I got to watch through a VCD during my earlier days as a budding movie collector. I guess initially, I mostly liked the idea of being transported to another world, which is what I usually felt when I used to go to the cinema watching Hollywood blockbusters as a child. I remember watching "Titanic" in grade three and I can still recollect the emotions I felt as I left the theater - uneasy and indifferent to the world outside. It was only perhaps six or seven years ago when I started to actually fall in love with cinema with its history and heritage, brought about by curiosity and my refusal to be bound by what only Philippine movie houses can offer; it was only then when I learned to watch films regardless of their time and country of origin. My film education is mostly self-taught; I haven't really taken hardcore film theory courses, although I was privileged to have attended a few film seminar classes in college. Nevertheless, I am not a connoisseur who would claim expertise in the things that I will be babbling about in this blog; I'm just a dreamer who writes about film simply because I want to share my growing passion for cinema. I believe there really is another world out there, in film and as Truffaut used to say, "I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."