I've been wanting to see Ramona S Diaz's documentary Imelda since I first heard about it, just before it made waves at Sundance this year (it won Excellence in Cinematography). Imelda is finally getting its New York premiere this Wednesday, 7:50 p.m. at Film Forum; Diaz will be there and presumably will be taking questions after the screening.
If like me you have prior engagements and can't make it then, fear not! Imelda will be showing at Film Forum for the next two weeks, five shows a day till June 22. Those of you in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Diego, Chicago, Denver, Honolulu and Los Angeles get to see it this month, and it gets to Seattle, Boston, Atlanta and St Louis sometime in August or September; check the schedule to find out when and where. Hopefully it'll come out in Manila soon, I can't even begin to imagine how people will take to it and write about it there.
Further reading: an interview with director and producer Ramona S Diaz from the Sundance Channel, a great review courtesy of The Cinematic Verses, Diaz on NPR's Morning Edition talking about Imelda. For extra credit, check out both The Wily Filipino's infamous (and much beloved by me) Wit and Wisdom of Imelda Marcos, and his review of the movie.
[ thanks, Heidi ]
this one i've got to see. thanks! :)
have you had a chance to see it yet? i finally caught it today [then walked over to angelika to see supersize me] and i totally recommend it. it was very entertaining, maybe even educational to some. each time i started to get bored with meldy, diaz injected us with a new facet of mrs. m's unbelievably naive & superficial personality. oh, and i lost count of the number of times she sang halfway through the film. definitely a must-see!
favorite lines from the film:
meldy: i am a star and a slave.
meldy: i have a childlike innocence
father james reuters: the woman has no grasp of reality.
The film is just great as the featured herself... great in shoes and dresses, well what more can i say---than she's a woman!
anyway, the film also showed lots of aspects of our nation, from the colorful, exciting history to the barest behavior of women, to lots of beautiful, scenic spots!...The McArthur Park in Palo, Leyte and the Vicmar's resort as well, and even their ancestral house turned into a shrine.
she is so girly
a very filipina lady
the film is good beacuse of many effects
but theres a part there that is so boring becuse the film is so long