Lav Diaz’s eight film to join one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Phantosmia is an official out-of-competition entry in the upcoming La Biennale di Venezia. Officially announced yesterday as one of the films to join the out-of-competition entry in the upcoming Venice Film Festival, ‘Phantosmia’ stars Janine
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‘Essential Truths of the Lake’ (Mga Saligan ng Katotohanan ng Lawa), isang pag-susuri | a QCinema review
Sa rebyu’ng ito ni Engelbert Rafferty, kaniya’ng sinuri ang pagka-hango ng pelikula ni Lav Diaz sa ekstra-hudisyal na pagpatay noong pamumuno ng dating presidente na si Rodrigo Duterte, at sa mga naiwang ala-ala ng pamilya ng mga biktima. Umiikot ang mga kamay ng oras sa bawat segundong tumatakbo. Sa loob
Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis
Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis (Eng. title: Lullaby for the Sorrowful Mystery) is eight hours long. Everybody knows it, the producers made sure of that. This focus on runtime, daresay superfluous for a Lav Diaz film, is unfortunate because it misrepresents what Hele actually is – an epic of magic realism that overlays
Trailer debut: Lav Diaz’s ‘Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis’
New Lav, good friends. The new Lav Diaz film titled Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapis has just premiered an international trailer online. There isn’t much to pick up in the way of story from the eighty-eight second trailer, but we know the film is centered around the search for the body of Andres Bonifacio. The
