Now it can be told: Sandino Martin beat two of his theater friends for the role of Bitoy Camacho in Ang Larawan, the 2017 Metro Filmfest Best Picture that really jumpstarted Sandino’s career. “Larawan ...

Here’s why you shouldn’t miss Loy Arcenas’ end-of-an-era screen musical, “Ang Larawan,” when it attempts to buck the kwela-film trend in this year’s regressive Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) lineup ...

'Ang Larawan' is elegant, with each of its graceful movement so carefully designed to evoke a feeling of nostalgia for a time when things of beauty are truly and unsubtly beautiful If there is one ...

Through the years and decades, we’ve enjoyed and appreciated Nick Joaquin’s play, “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino,” in its various incarnations. We were introduced to it by Lamberto Avellana’s ...

Like the Filipino’s resilience to which it poignantly pays tribute, the 2017 Metro Manila Film Festival entry “Ang Larawan” had to hurdle a string of challenges to disprove the peanut gallery’s ...

ANG LARAWAN, directed by Loy Arcenas, is the musical film adaptation of Nick Joaquin’s 65-year-old play Portrait of the Artist as Filipino. It is more accurately a portrait of Filipino society itself, ...

ANG Larawan, a Filipino musical based on Nick Joaquin’s play A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino, won the Best Picture Award at the 43rd Metro Manila Film Festival’s (MMFF) Gabi ng Parangal held at ...

With grace, sweetness and sadness, sisters Candida and Paula Marasigan will meet a new generation of audiences when National Artist Nick Joaquin’s “Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” is resurrected ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. “We were told that musicals are not popular in Japan, and yet from the festival staff, Japanese press and audiences ...

Without doubt, it was the theater event of 1979. It starred two of the country’s top screen divas and the hottest actor. And it was directed by an esteemed name. The theater event in reference was the ...