Alexis Tioseco

critic/journalist, teacher, narcoleptic

www.criticine.com

film, writing, the philippines, my family, too many other things

the tesseract, microserfs, survivor, the unbearable lightness of being, film criticism

yi yi: a one and a two, seven samurai, batang west side, amores perros, requiem for a dream, all the real girls, satantango, rushmore, vertical ray of the sun, princess and the warrior, barton fink, tinimbang ka ngunit kulang, stalker, keka, in this world, maynila sa mga kuko ng liwanag, batch '81, a clockwork orange, ebolusyon ng isang pamilyang pilipino, mirror, hiroshima mon amour, city of sadness, au hasard balthazar, werckmeister harmonies

narda, edgar allan hoes, yano, elliott smith, ben harper, jack johnson, wilco, cody chesnutt, d'angelo, handsome boy modelling school, lovage, dj shadow, jurassic 5, yeah yeah yeahs, outkast, ciudad, new pornographers, cat power, the brockas, eraserheads, postal service, mogwai, sigur ros, velvet underground, eddie peregrina

wonder years, 21 jump street

I was born in the Philippines.
My father is Filipino (Kapampangan, Raised in Manila).
My mother is 1/2 Italian, 1/2 Chilean (Raised in Chile).
I moved to Canada when I was 2.
I came back when I was 16.
I like movies.