In facing apartment units, two men share parallel stories. One, distraught over the death of John Lennon, contemplates on killing himself. The other goes into a fit deciding how to part with his 3-years-old toothbrush.Read More »
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R.A. Rivera – Chicken Soup 2 (1999)
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Eddie Romero – The Twilight People (1972)
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A scientist kidnaps a man and transports him to an island, intent on turning him into a super-being. The man obviously doesn’t like this idea, so he tries to escape with the help of the scientist’s daughter and a band of half-human, half-animal creatures.Read More » -
Lav Diaz – Melancholia (2008)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaLav DiazPhilippinesCrowned best film in Venice’s Horizons section, Lav Diaz’s latest madly uncommercial 7½-hour magnum opus, “Melancholia,” sets a trio of survivors wandering the country in a dirge to those lost to disaster. To reconcile themselves to the deaths of their leftist comrades and loved ones, two women and a man undertake a succession of role-changes as a radical form of grief therapy. But the alienation implied by their incarnations of a prostitute, pimp and nun, assumed at the pic’s opening, reads as anything but therapeutic.Read More »
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Treb Monteras II – Respeto (2017)
2011-2020DramaPhilippinesTreb Monteras IIA poor aspiring rapper befriends an older poet after vandalizing his bookstore.Read More »
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Gerardo de Leon – Jose Rizal’s “Noli me tángere” (1961)
1961-1970DramaEpicGerardo de LeonPhilippinesQuote:
A multi-awarded film by Filipino National Artist Gerardo de Leon, based on a novel written by martyr-hero Jose P. Rizal, and which trigerred the Philippine Revolution of 1896. Produced in 1961 for the national celebrations commemorating the birth centenary of Rizal, the film considered lost for almost two decades until its recent restoration by German Archivist.Read More » -
Lav Diaz – Siglo ng pagluluwal AKA Century of Birthing (2011)
2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalLav DiazPhilippinesQuote
One of the most adventurous filmmakers to emerge from the Philippines in decades, Lav Diaz is, in many ways, the spiritual father of what some have called the Filipino New Wave, a group of filmmakers who have adopted digital technology to create an intimate and raw style. At the same time, he stands separate from them, often working on an epic scale and addressing historical shifts in Philippine society. (See his epochal Ebulysion: Evolution of a Filipino Family.)Read More »
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Raymond Red – Kabaka AKA Enemy (1983)
1981-1990PhilippinesRaymond RedSci-FiShort FilmQuote:
‘Enemy’ is elegaic science-fiction: a fable about the young men trained as Guardians of the Stars and their failure to ward off an unknon ‘enemy’ who manifests himself as white light.Read More » -
Lino Brocka – Ang tatay kong nanay AKA My Father, My Mother (1978)
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Lino Brocka’s “Ang Tatay Kong Nanay” (My Father, My Mother, roughly, 1978) is the master filmmaker’s one collaboration with the near-universally acknowledged King of Philippine Comedy, Dolphy (Rodolfo Vera Quizon). Screen legends working with famed filmmakers rarely if ever create sure bets; it’s something of a surprise, then that the resulting picture from these two is so straightforwardly poignant, laced with just enough humor to wriggle past one’s defenses.Read More »
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Various – Imahe Nasyon (2006)
2001-2010ArthousePhilippinesPoliticsVariousMAHE NASYON… a groundbreaking, conceptual omnibus film by 20 alternative filmmakers who were tasked to present their personal visions on national issues. It is underlined by a conceptual question asked by line producers Jon Red & Carol Bunuan-Red:”How do you see the past 20 years?”
In 2006, IMAHE NASYON attempts to answer the question. That question also became a thematic and uniting thread across the films, but each film is made of different cinematic genres that is representative of the filmmaker’s style, stressing the concept that in spite of individual visions we share the same goal: to depict a truthful image of the nation.Read More »