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in Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (2024) dir. Petersen Vargas - Trailer

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Trailer: Some Nights I Feel Like Walking From the director of 2 Cool 2 Be Forgotten, Don't 4Get About Me, Hello Stranger, and How to Die Young in Manila. - Petersen Vargas

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🎬 un/happy for you (2024), dir. petersen vargas

🗓️ january 1, 2025 🎯 film #1 a typical story of a young couple who grew tired of each other amidst the struggles of adulting and self-discovery, leading to a bad breakup. years later, they reconnect, making everyone around them awkward until they reach that long-awaited confrontation. every scene becomes more tense and intense when you remember that the actors were actual exes.

despite the common plot, the actors truly carried the film. among their peers, joshlia were—and still are—the best. both can really act, though its unfortunate that julia's character feels underdeveloped.

another highlight is the setting in bicol! i love bicol, and im happy that filipino cuisine was prominently featured.

the central theme of the film is the grief of losing a once-cherished relationship. the movie portrayed this tedious and ugly process not only through the couple involved but also through everyone around them. grieving is ugly; it takes time, pulls out the worst in you, and leaves you begging. it gives birth to anger. the person who was once your world becomes someone you curse and wish the worst for. pain rots your core and crawls into your heart, leaving you wishing a lifetime of misery on that person. seeing them happy feels like your undoing—you curse life for its unfairness, watching them move on while your world feels like its stopped, unable to flourish again. the world keeps turning, even when youre in pain, even when youre incapacitated, even when youre in the pits of hell.

my favorite part was the morning after the climax, when papa jun patiently talked to juancho. that scene hit close to home because my mom and i experienced something very similar. when everyone leaves you after youve pushed their patience to the brink, sometimes all you need is the loving support and understanding of even just one person to keep you going.

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A Very Good Girl (2023) dir. Petersen Vargas

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KATHRYN BERNARDO as Philomena Angeles/Mercedes Novela A Very Good Girl (2023) dir. Petersen Vargas

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Filipino queer drama to premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Fest

Photo from Petersen Vargas/X A Filipino queer film is gearing up to make a mark on the global stage with its international premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this November.  Directed by Petersen Vargas, “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking” is set to compete in the festival’s main category, which entails a significant milestone for the filmmaker.  The “2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten” filmmaker…

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DON'T YOU FORGET

2023

director, writer

short, 18 minutes

romance, drama

starring serena magiliw

 

synopsis:

Beauty, a trans woman sex worker, drives a motorcycle in the street of Angeles, Pampanga with her wounded boyfriend, Boyet who leans on her back after resisting against a violent transphobic white man. Next day, Beauty finds her house cluttered and realizes her boyfriend has gone missing. Her search for Boyet leads her to the police station and attempts to bail him out of jail. But Beauty confronts her hardest decision: to save her boyfriend or to undergo gender affirming surgery, her long-standing dream.

 

team:

patrick pangan - director/writer/editor joy jamora, dylan talon - producer franz domasian, jm martinez - associate producer migo morales - line producer gilson garcia, rian uy - production manager kuki zinampan - assistant director/script consultant andrei torres - director of photography drink water rivera - production designer hans piozon - musical scorer buddy sibal - sound designer jade castro, petersen vargas, serena magiliw, kristine camille sulit - creative consultant

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Stills from Some Nights I Feel Like Walking (dir. Petersen Vargas, 2022)

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#98. Lisyun qng Geografia (2014) Geography Lessons

dir. Petersen Vargas dop. Carlos Mauricio

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2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016), Petersen Vargas

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It’s not 2late 2review 2Cool 2be 4gotten

On a seemingly usual weekday at my former office (about three months ago), my close colleague (and inseparable friend today) asked me if I want to see 2Cool 2be 4gotten that night. For those of you who are not familiar with it, it’s a coming-of-age film that explores guy to guy relationships. We talked about it before and we both want to see but an event was coming up that ate all of my time (more on this event later because yes, it is connected to the film!!). And being the film aficionado that I was, I said yes to the unplanned movie night. Fast forward to the screening, we came way too early to its 9PM schedule at a small theatre called Cinema ‘76. It wasn’t a problem at all because the guys I’m with, they can entertain you ‘till you’re so full of their jokes you just want to sleep but you’re still laughing at them (I should know, I’ve had a 3-day event with them and we all stayed in the same room). As we entered the dimly lit cinema room, there were in fact a few people who showed up so we made our way to the front seats and luckily, they were unoccupied. I didn’t really expect much from the film but I know that it has received good reviews so far. The first scene, I remember was intense already. The main character, Felix, showed brutality and violence to a friendly creature who I used to play with when I was younger. And then the story proceeds and we found ourselves deeply engrossed with it. All of us  — on all intense (I am sorry but I am gonna use this word lots of times because the MOVIE WAS INTENSE) scenes can be seen reacting to it. I guess Petersen Vargas knows how to shake his audience up with risky scenes accompanied by a haunting OPM (Original Pinoy Music) soundtrack. I can’t remember any scenes wherein we got to talk or pause, all of which were essential to the climax and just imagine simple colors of nostalgia and sadness that will bring out all the emo-ness we try to supress. Never have I ever predicted its ending and in a way, I understood the struggles of the gay guys during the ‘90s (or decades before that) and those of the half Pinoys/Pinays produced by a prostituted woman or a poor girl from the province and a US marine from Subic Clark Base. It pulls you down. Plus the fact that I’ve been in Mt. Pinatubo, a somewhat essential mix in the story, I guess I can relate more on how the community was affected by its eruption. However, I feel like the production design can still be improved. It didn’t feel like the ‘90s, except a few pop culture references from that decade and that’s in the script department, not set design.

But all in all, the movie was great and worth watching and worth drooling over (Hello, Ethan Salvador aka Magnus Snyder). You might want to hold your breath at the beach scenes, all of it. Props to Petersen Vargas for making it hard .. for other gay movies to top this one, this sets the bar higher than expected. On other note, the event we were busy with... Ethan Salvador apparently walked during the show (it is a fashion festival) and poor me was too busy to notice him. Maybe next time Ethan, I won’t miss a photo op with you.

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Filipino queer drama to premiere at Tallinn Black Nights Film Fest

Photo from Petersen Vargas/X A Filipino queer film is gearing up to make a mark on the global stage with its international premiere at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival this November.  Directed by Petersen Vargas, “Some Nights I Feel Like Walking” is set to compete in the festival’s main category, which entails a significant milestone for the filmmaker.  The “2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten” filmmaker…

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2 Cool 2 Be 4gotten (2016), Felix Salonga

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