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Erik Matti, director

On the Job is a 2013 Philippine crime-thriller film conceived and directed by Erik Matti (pictured), who co-wrote it with Michiko Yamamoto. Starring Gerald Anderson, Joel Torre, Joey Marquez and Piolo Pascual, it tells the story of two prisoners (Anderson and Torre) who are temporarily freed to carry out political executions, and two law enforcers (Marquez and Pascual) investigating a case connected to the prison gun-for-hire business. Star Cinema initially refused to produce the film due to its violent content, but in 2012 agreed to co-produce it with Reality Entertainment, Matti's independent film company. Filming took place in Manila and lasted 33 days, on a production budget of 47 million pesos (about US$1.1 million). On the Job was praised at the Directors' Fortnight at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The film was released in the Philippines on August 28, 2013, and in the United States and Canada on September 27. It received positive reviews from foreign and domestic critics. (Full article...)

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Burning of Gaspee

1523 – Parisian printer Simon de Colines was fined for printing biblical commentary by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples without obtaining prior approval from theologians.
1772 – In an act of defiance against the Navigation Acts, American colonists led by Abraham Whipple attacked and burned the British schooner Gaspee (depicted).
1856 – The first company of Mormon handcart pioneers left Iowa City for Salt Lake City, Utah.
1965 – Fighting began between the Viet Cong and the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the Vietnam War.
2010 – A child suicide bomber attacked a wedding in Nadahan, Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring at least 70 others.

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The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil-on-canvas painting by Rembrandt housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The painting is regarded as one of Rembrandt's early masterpieces. In the work, Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to a group of doctors. Some of the spectators are various doctors who paid to be included in the painting. The painting is signed in the top-left hand corner Rembrandt. f[ecit] 1632. This may be the first instance of Rembrandt signing a painting with his forename (in its original form) as opposed to the monogram RHL ("Rembrandt Harmenszoon of Leiden"), and is thus a sign of his growing artistic confidence.

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