Regine asked to comment on new Morissette issue
Amid the controversial “walkout issue” involving singer Morissette Amon, one of those she looks up to, Regine Velasquez-Alcasid, describes her as “really good girl” in an interview with media at the Cinema One Originals opening night few days ago.
“She’s a really good girl. ’Yun ang pagkakakilala ko sa kanya (Morissette),” Regine said.
Morissette was one of the announced guest performers in a birthday concert last Nov. 6. She wasn’t able to perform due to “medical emergency that we have to attend to,” according to her manager David Cosico who said so on mic and onstage.
Producer Jobert Sucaldito, on the other hand, claimed Morissette “felt she was attacked by the media” when she was asked about her love life and family in an impromptu interview just before the concert started.
Regine finds it hard to comment on the issue since she isn’t really aware of what happened that night. Nevertheless, the Songbird hopes Morissette will be able to hurdle this controversy.
“I hope that she’s okay, I hope that… sometimes ganoon talaga, may pagdadaanan ka. And I hope that God will give her the strength
para mapagdaanan niya nang tama ito, kasi ang hirap, kasi ang bata pa niya,” she said. “And I know her personally na, ha, hindi na yung basta chika lang. Kasi nakakausap ko na siya, nagti-text kami… she’s
a good girl.”
Festival
The 15th Cinema One Originals was officially set in motion with psychological horror film “The Lighthouse” opening the festival held at Ayala Malls Manila Bay, attended by the stars and filmmakers of the eight films in competition, “Metamorphosis,” “Utopia,” “Tia Madre,” “Yours Truly, Shirley,” “Lucid,” “O,” “Sila-Sila,” and “Tayo Muna Habang Hindi Pa Tayo.”
Aside from “The Lighthouse,” other World Cinema feature films this year are “The Father,” “The Invisible Life of Eurice Gusmao,” “Knives Out,” “Matthias and Maxime,” “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” “The Truth,” and “The Two Popes.”
The Restored Classics roster, meanwhile, includes Eddie Romero’s multi-generational epic “Aguila” in which Fernando Poe Jr. breaks his own mold for possibly the first and last time, Mario O’Hara’s gritty quasi-noir “Bulaklak Sa City Jail” one of his most distinctive collaborations with Nora Aunor, Abbo De La Cruz’s unflinching tale of greed “Misteryo Sa Tuwa”, two experimental postmodern comedies Peque Gallaga’s “Bad Bananas Sa Putting Tabing” and Ishmael Bernal’s “Tisoy”, and two of Carlitos Suigon-Reyna’s fastidious, flamboyant melodramas “Hihintayin Kita Sa Langit” and “Saan Ka Man Naroroon.”
#C1Originals also showcases six original short films that will put into the spotlight tales from various walks of life. These are Janina Gacosta & Cheska Marfori’s “Ang Gasgas na Plaka ni Lolo Bert,” Jan Andrei Cobey’s “The Slums,” Don Senoc’s “Sa Among Agwat (In Between Spaces),” Sonia Marie Regalario’s “Ang
Lumunod Sa Atin,” Ivan Cortez’s “Sa Gitna ng Lungsod” and Genevieve Ofiana’s “Last 234!”
The 15th Cinema One Originals will run until Nov. 17 at Trinoma, Glorietta, Ayala Manila Bay, Gateway, and Powerplant Makati. There will also be screenings at Vista Cinemas in Iloilo and Evia Lifestyle and in Cinema Centenario, Cinema ‘76, Black Maria, UP Cine Adarna, and FDCP Cinematheque Manila.