KISAPMATA was inspired by the true crime report “The House on Zapote Street”. “In The Wink of An Eye” as it would also be known as has been a staple favorite among budding cinephiles in the country. Considered as a classic of epic proportions not only because of the controversy
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Cesar Hernando, a giant of Philippine Cinema
It is quite a sad day as reports of Cesar Hernando’s passing has circulated across Facebook, and in the midst of the 100 years of Philippine Cinema, we have lost one of it’s greatest masters. In his last work as a director, and his only full-length film ‘Gayuma‘ continuously brings
Where did all the critics go?
I wrote this for an hour, but this may take about two to three minutes to read. And I propose this question to the wind, to you, and to everyone else reading this: Where did all the critics go? When I ‘started’ out on this industry as a member of
“CITIZEN JAKE” is a wake-up call for both the asleep and woke
Often a trope in movies is when a hermitic, wise — often, cranky — veteran is brought out of retirement to school the youth when the times have turned most trying (especially when the villains they once faced in the past have re-emerged from the ether). Obi-Wan did it with
Don’t miss Batch ’81 at the Cine Adarna this Dec 1!
“History is being blatantly rewritten and the martyrdom of countless martial law victims is denigrated as stupidity and a dictator is given a hero’s burial in the dead of the night. In this situation, what can one film do? Nothing much … in fact, very little. But there are still
Leo Katigbak and Davide Pozzi on restoring ‘Kakabakaba Ka Ba?’
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,
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“),
