While every one is commemorating the anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, you’re holed up in the dark of your room for some reason. It’s just one of those days, you reason. It’s O.K., really. You needn’t feel shame. Being a cinephile and a slacker—both titles I embrace with equal conviction—I know the feeling.
So. Here’s a handful of titles to fill your patriotic souls. All of these films you can stream on iFlix using their 30-day free trial.
Jose Rizal
The very existence of Jose Rizal, Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s rhapsodic, ambitious retelling of the Philippine national hero, is historically incredible. Somewhat of a dream team is at the film’s helm: Diaz-Abaya directing; Ricky Lee, Jun Lana, and Peter Ong Lim co-writing the screenplay; and the masterful cinematographer Rody Lacap shooting the film. There’s a wealth of films surrounding the life of Rizal (Mike De Leon’s Bayaning Third World and Gerry De Leon’s Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, among others), but Diaz-Abaya’s three-hour epic is perhaps the most stuffed, a feat that both appeals to and divides among its audience. Regardless, it’s a great reminder of a man who lit the wick of a revolution.
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A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos)
Raya Martin’s A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or The Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos) recreates the Griffith-era Silent Film quite swimmingly. From the film’s images emanates an aura of disquieting intensity, each frame more haunting as it lingers through the next. Beyond this technical seamlessness, the film more importantly tells its three stories of rediscovering Philippine independence in senses neither different nor the same than the other. A monochromatic fever pitch depicting the Filipino struggle for independence during the last few years of the 19th century.
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Still photograph from A Short Film About the Indio Nacional (or the Prolonged Sorrow of Filipinos). Photo via Arte.
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The Guerilla is a Poet
The documentary-drama The Guerilla is a Poet is Kiri and Sari Dalena’s framing of the tumultuous life of activist poet Jose Maria Sison during the Martial Law. In-between interviews and confessionals are moments that look closely to the poet’s life, now living with his wife in Netherlands, and recounts that from his past. This newfound “intimacy” may be easily dismissed as digression from the film’s more audacious subjects, further blurring the lines between documenting and dramatizing. Sari would eventually direct Dahling Nick, a documentary borrowing the same form as Poet and retelling the life and death of National Artist awardee Nick Joaquin.
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Over to you!
I’m slowly becoming one of those people who binge-watch films respective to the current holiday, and I feel like dee-jay coming up with this rather short list for you. All three films are available for streaming thru iFlix. First-time users get a free month of unlimited viewing. Click here to sign up!
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