A movie watcher's New Year's resolutions

I resolve to:

1. Support The Society of Filipino Archivists for Film (SOFIA).  Caught their screening of an obscure 60s comedy entitled Kasal o Sakal that starred Chichay, the greatest Pinoy comedienne that ever lived, and directed by Johnny Reyes, LVN baddie and designer James Reyes’ dad.  Hadn’t had a good laugh since Mano Po (and that wasn’t even a comedy).
2. Stay away from M. Night Shyamalan movies no matter how intriguing his trailers are.
3. Never give in to trilogies of comedy franchises.  Or those with robots overrunning the earth.
4. Open the complete François Truffaut collection that’s been gathering dust in my closet.
5. Go back to French language school to fully understand the nuances of moral order in Truffaut’s Wild Child/L’Enfant Sauvage.
6. Learn how to grab clips from a DVD and convert into Quicktime files to share with other cinephiles.  Youtube hasn’t got it all.
7. Take the time out to watch all the movies in the next Cinemalaya, the Philippines’ Sundance, our last hope for the revival of local cinema.
8. Start a campaign for competent screenwriters to pitch scripts with Manny Pangilinan who’s a promising (and moneyed) creative force.  The local version of Ismail Merchant?  Mother Lily of the early 80s (Manila by Night, Sister Stella L.) and before Mano Po would do.
9. Give Gone with the Wind a second chance.  I really didn’t get it.
10. Watch more movies from other Asian countries, especially Thailand and Korea. They’re doing more exciting stuff out there.  But then again, they don’t have anything like Zombadings: (Pataying sa Shokot si Remington).