Mike De Leon’s classic Kakabakaba Ka Ba? emulates the wild, frenzied aura of the 80’s eon better than no other film that tried. James Espinoza writes in his review “this film could not have been made today,” and I agree completely. The film is one of De Leon’s finest works,
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Kakabakaba Ka Ba?
This film could not have been made today, at least not without public backlash and definitely not by a major studio. This was my immediate reaction right after I saw the restored and remastered version of Mike De Leon’s Kakabakaba Ka Ba?, which was, in 1980, a last-ditch attempt at
Mike de Leon’s “Kakabakaba Ka Ba?” gets its well-deserved restoration, premieres Dec 9
After 35 years, Mike de Leon’s revered classic, Kakabakaba Ka Ba?, gets its well-deserved restoration with the help of ABS-CBN Film Restoration and the digitally re-mastery of L’Immagine Ritrovata. Leo Katigbak, head of the ABS-CBN Film Restoration and Archives (and who we can now officially call “The Father of Filipino Film Restoration“),
