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The Great Little Hunter
Pinspired Philippines, 2022
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The Boy The Girl
The Rat The Rabbit
and the Last Magic Days
Chapbook, 2018
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Republic of Carnage:
Three Horror Stories
For the Way We Live Now
Chapbook, 2018
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Bamboo Girls:
Stories and Poems
From a Forgotten Life
Ateneo de Naga University Press, 2018
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Don't Tell Anyone:
Literary Smut
With Shakira Andrea Sison
Pride Press / Anvil Publishing, 2017
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Cupful of Anger,
Bottle Full of Smoke:
The Stories of
Jose V. Montebon Jr.
Silliman Writers Series, 2017
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First Sight of Snow
and Other Stories
Encounters Chapbook Series
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Celebration: An Anthology to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Silliman University National Writers Workshop
Sands and Coral, 2011-2013
Silliman University, 2013
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Handulantaw: Celebrating 50 Years of Culture and the Arts in Silliman
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Inday Goes About Her Day
Locsin Books, 2012
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Beautiful Accidents: Stories
University of the Philippines Press, 2011
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Heartbreak & Magic: Stories of Fantasy and Horror
Anvil, 2011
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Old Movies and Other Stories
National Commission for Culture
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FutureShock Prose: An Anthology of Young Writers and New Literatures
Sands and Coral, 2003
Nominated for Best Anthology
2004 National Book Awards
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IAN ROSALES CASOCOT
Monday, July 06, 2020
4:41 PM |
Ennio Morricone, 1928-2020
The film scores of Ennio Morricone [1928-2020] heralded my growing awareness of film as an art form in my 1990s youth: it came to me that many great movies became involving experiences primarily because of their marriage of image to music. That was when I started taking note of Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini, Nino Rota, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Alan Silvestri, Maurice Jarre. And then there was Morricone. A random listing of his film scores alone would give us an idea of the sheer pleasure of his music -- music full of body, music full of stories: the mournful nostalgia of
Cinema Paradiso, the heart-pounding thrill of
The Untouchables, the Wild West twang of
A Fistful of Dollars and
The Good The Bad The Ugly, the wistfulness of
Days of Heaven, the soul-bearing confessions of
The Mission, and countless of others. Robert D. McFadden writes of his prolific work and musical reach at the
New York Times: "He sometimes scored 20 or more films a year, often working only from a script before screening the rushes. Directors marveled at his range — tarantellas, psychedelic screeches, swelling love themes, tense passages of high drama, stately evocations of the 18th century or eerie dissonances of the 20th — and at the ingenuity of his silences: He was wary of too much music, of overloading an audience with emotions." He himself has no compunction for the range, ascribing it all to just plain music-making: "If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music." He will be missed.
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