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Lav Diaz – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Quote: Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease found in individuals who have been subjected to multiple concussions and other forms of head injury. A variant of...
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Lav Diaz – Norte, Hangganan Ng Kasaysayan AKA Norte the End of History (2013)
Synopsis: An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking...
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Nick Deocampo – Revolutions Happen Like Refrains in a Song (1987)
Narrated by Deocampo in English, the film documents the anti-Marcos revolution, the life of Oliver, a transvestite, child prostitution, and the filmmaker’s own personal history, including his...
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Lino Brocka – Maynila: Sa mga kuko ng liwanag AKA Manila in the Claws of Neon...
Quote: Manila: In the Claws of Darkness is the most impressive of his films noirs, made with bows to the American cinema, to Italian neo-realism and to his own country’s tradition of star-driven...
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Lino Brocka – Tinimbang ka ngunit kulang AKA You Have Been Weighed and Found...
From Database of Philippine Movies : Tinimbang, considered by Lino Brocka as his “first novel” and his first production for his own film outfit, is the story of a young boy growing up in a small town...
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Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)
Quote: Lino Brocka’s films combine popular melodrama, political import, and intense realism with a vivid, economical style. Made on impossibly low budgets on the fringes of the Philippine film...
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Lav Diaz – Mula sa kung ano ang noon AKA From What Is Before (2014)
Synopsis: The Philippines, 1972. Mysterious things are happening in a remote barrio. Wails are heard from the forest, cows are hacked to death, a man is found bleeding to death at the crossroad and...
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Celso Ad. Castillo – Virgin People (1984)
IMDB: Three sisters live in a paradise where men are metaphorically and literally serpents of temptation. Their father takes his three daughters deep into the woods, far from the nearest town. He...
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Khavn – Desaparadiso (2015)
Plot Summary: One day, they just disappeared. Just like that. One didn’t go to work, one didn’t go to his appointment, didn’t meet his date. The dishes served were left to rot, and the bed remained...
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Lav Diaz – The Day Before the End (2016)
Synopsis: In the year 2050, the Philippines braces for the coming of the fiercest storm ever to hit the country. And as the wind and waters start to rage, poets wander the streets. Quote: Lav Diaz,...
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Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)
“Insiang” is Lino Brocka’s tale of one girl’s coming of age in the slums of Manila. The title character, played by Hilda Koronel, is a young girl who lives in a small crowded shanty with her mother,...
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Lav Diaz – Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012)
Quote: With its depiction of cruelty and woe, Florentina Hubaldo, CTE is one of Diaz’s darkest films, the third of a trilogy about trauma and its aftermath (after Death in the Land of Encantos and...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Mababangong bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
Quote: Upon first glance, Perfumed Nightmare looks amateurish and raw. It is, too, I suppose, but this works to the film’s advantage. This is the semiautobiographical story of a young Filipino man...
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Lav Diaz – Elehiya sa dumalaw mula sa himagsikan AKA Elegy to the Visitor...
Like Prologue to the Great Desparecido, Elegy finds Diaz looking back to the Filipino Revolution of the last years of the 19th century. Here, he imagines a woman from that era visiting the Philippines...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Turumba (1981)
J. Hoberman, The Village Voice: Set in a tiny Philippine village, the inimitable Kidlat Tahimik’s film focuses on a family that makes papier-mache animals to sell during the traditional Turumba...
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Lino Brocka – Insiang (1976)
Quote: Jealousy and violence take center stage in this claustrophobic melodrama, a tautly constructed character study set in the slums of Manila. Lino Brocka crafts an eviscerating portrait of an...
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Kidlat Tahimik – Bakit dilaw ang gitna ng bahag-hari? AKA Why Is Yellow the...
`An entry in the Encyclopedia of Philippine Art published by the Cultural Center of the Philippines, offers a clue as to the genesis of this monumental movie. Two movies are mentioned: the first, I am...
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Lino Brocka – Macho Dancer (1988)
Macho Dancer is a 1988 Philippine film, directed Lino Brocka, which explores the harsh realities of a young, poor, rural gay man, who after being dumped by his American boyfriend, is forced to make a...
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Sherad Anthony Sanchez – Imburnal (2008)
Quote: The history of cinema is the history of the tyranny of narrative films. The right of first refusal to anything worth committing to film belongs to the province of narrative films. Narrative...
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Lino Brocka – Orapronobis AKA Fight for Us (1989)
Quote: Lino Brocka’s “Tatlo, Dalawa, Isa” (Three, Two, One, 1974) shows the filmmaker’s versatility in the short form, working with various writers. The first segment, Tony Perez’s “Mga Hugis ng...
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