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Movies & TV

Pare Ko at 30: An Oral History of a Filipino Teen Film Classic

If the 1980s had Bagets, the ‘90s had Pare Ko. The movie about Filipino youth culture eschewed the typical depictions of teenagers in favor of something real and raw, and, in the process, made stars out of its young leads like Jomari Yllana, Mark Anthony Fernandez, Jao Mapa, and Claudine Barretto. Three decades later, writer and director Jose Javier Reyes reminisces about making the movie and whether he’d ever consider making a sequel.

The 1980s had Bagets, but when the 90s rolled around, no youth-oriented film was able to capture the zeitgeist quite like Pare Ko. At a time when smoking was still allowed everywhere, box-type Lancers were the pinnacle of cool, and ...

Features

Jose Javier Reyes on the Hard Truths and Hopes for Philippine Cinema

'Philippine cinema is not dead because there's a whole lot of potential just waiting out there,' he said.

Every year, Esquire Philippines presents Man at His Best, the local iteration of a global signature event where we celebrate extraordinary Filipino men and women reshaping society as we know it. These are the dreamers and doers who have made a profound ...

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