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Best Film Award-winner Tulad Ng Dati set to rock the Showcase, launch $5 admissions this Friday
By PCS Enews Staff

DIRECTED BY
Mike Sandejas

STARRING
THE DAWN: Jett Pangan, JB Leonor, Francis Reyes, and Buddy Zabala; Ping Medina, Agot Isidro, and Mylene Dizon.

86 minutes; rated PG-13.

A Filipino rock band, played by members of real-life band The Dawn, finds fame in the 1980s. But following the murder of a founding member and years of decline, the band is reduced to playing small gigs. When the lead singer (Jett Pangan) is robbed and suffers amnesia, he throws the band (JB Leonor, Francis Reyes, and Buddy Zabala) and his family into chaos when he insists on living as his 1980s self. All must decide whether to rest on past laurels, or unite to fight and earn future success.

Plays October 10 thru 6 @ 12:45, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00pm EXCEPT 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, October 15; also 10:15pm Friday/Saturday/Sunday.

Tickets (may be purchased online at www.ultrastarmovies.com): ALL TICKETS NOW $5!


The Philippine Cinema Showcase plays at  The Goldilocks Theater at UltraStar Chula Vista, 555 Broadway, Chula Vista, CA, 619-338-4214.

"... Best Feature Film in the recently concluded [Cinemalaya Film Festival] went to Mike Sandejas’ Tulad ng Dati, a film that featured for its central effect a character suffering from amnesia. How clichéd could you get?  Except that Tulad ng Dati is anything but.

"Sandejas’ sophisticated, remarkably self-assured first feature is a playful but profound riff on the life and times of the The Dawn, the band responsible for operatic rock anthems like "Enveloped Ideas" and "Iisang Bangka Tayo."  The Dawn has had its moment in the fickle sun, and Tulad ng Dati finds it scrounging around in some third-rate dive, its pioneering act now largely forgotten.

"... its ultimate themes—celebrity, maturity, growing old and dying, the wages of fame, friendships that defy dimensions—make it a richly gratifying cinematic experience.  That this movie restores The Dawn to its rightful place in the local music pantheon is a welcome bonus."

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